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Mubarak: Arabs Hate U.S. More Than Ever
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Posted on 04/20/2004 6:38:33 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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PARIS (Reuters) - Arabs in the Middle East hate the United States more than ever following the invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) and Israel's assassination of two Hamas leaders, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (news - web sites) said in comments published Tuesday.
Mubarak, who visited the United States last week, told French newspaper Le Monde that Washington's actions had caused despair, frustration and a sense of injustice in the Arab world.
"Today there is hatred of the Americans like never before in the region," he said in an interview given during a stay in France, where he met President Jacques Chirac Monday.
He blamed the hostility partly on U.S. support for Israel, which assassinated Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi in a missile strike in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) Saturday weeks after killing his predecessor, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
"At the start some considered the Americans were helping them. There was no hatred of the Americans. After what has happened in Iraq, there is unprecedented hatred and the Americans know it," Mubarak said.
"People have a feeling of injustice. What's more, they see (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon acting as he pleases, without the Americans saying anything. He assassinates people who don't have the planes and helicopters that he has."
Israel says such killings are self-defense. But Mubarak said the assassination of Rantissi could have "serious consequences" and that instability in Gaza and Iraq would not serve U.S. or Israeli interests.
"The despair and feeling of injustice are not going to be limited to our region alone. American and Israeli interests will not be safe, not only in our region but anywhere in the world," he said.
Asked about Sharon's plan to pull out of Gaza, Mubarak welcomed any withdrawal that was agreed with the Palestinians and in line with a peace "road map" drawn up by the United States, the European Union (news - web sites), the United Nations (news - web sites) and Russia.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabworld; dregsoftheearth
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Well, plenty of Americans hate the Arabs and Muslims too.
But we have the nukes.
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:55:54 AM PDT
by
Bon mots
"He assassinates people who don't have the planes and helicopters that he has." "Your jihadists murder folks just going about their business on busses, restaurants and in markets. The chief intigators of your murderous crime sprees were dispensed with and it's long overdue.
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:56:09 AM PDT
by
spunkets
To: Sub-Driver
Okay, so, if they hate us so much, here is a good way to show it. The next time aid of any kind is offered by this country to an Arab country, they should turn it down. After all, they wouldn't want to accept handouts from someone they hate, right? What's that? Can't do that? Hmmm, well, I guess when it comes to handouts, hate takes a back seat to greed and laziness.
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:56:56 AM PDT
by
chimera
To: spunkets
What they hate us? That's it the blood will flow in rivers, we will hang their entrails over the gates of hell, I call on US and all of their allies to rise up and slay the beasts where they stand. We will march in the streets by the millions, yes that's right the street will be filled with all of our rage and we will storm the enemy and we will.......
Opps, sorry I got carried away for a while and thought I was an Arab. Better loosen that towel next time I dry my hair!
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:01:39 AM PDT
by
marlon
To: cynicom
Why does'nt Egypt invade Israel and have done with them?
It only took three days for Israel to kick Egypt's butt in '67.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:01:47 AM PDT
by
bk1000
(error 404- failed to get tag line)
To: Sub-Driver
And in similar news, park rangers report that bears are defecating in the woods more than ever noted.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:02:58 AM PDT
by
Montfort
To: Sub-Driver
'At the start some considered the Americans were helping them. There was no hatred of the Americans. After what has happened in Iraq, there is unprecedented hatred and the Americans know it," Mubarak said. ' Nope. No hatred from the peace-loving Arabs, just joy and dancing.
No wait, that was their reaction to 9-11....
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:03:29 AM PDT
by
TonyBanks
(To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the loyal opposition.)
To: cripplecreek
WHEN we (eventually) get a new Demonazisocialist administration, the biblical prophesy stating that ALL the world will turn against Isreal, will be fullfilled.
To: Sub-Driver
Hate and revenge continue to be the arab world's most important product. Hosni Mubarak seems to be working a little overtime pointing out the obvious.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:04:35 AM PDT
by
pt17
To: Bon mots
"But we have the nukes."
So do they now (Pakistan -- not Arab but Muslim) and soon more (Iran).
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:04:36 AM PDT
by
optik_b
(follow the money)
To: Sub-Driver
It is not possible for me to care any less than I already do. It would disturb me if Arabs DID like us.
As a matter of fact, why dont all you domestic arabs Get the EFF out of MY country? We dont want your hateful, third-world POS's here.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:05:10 AM PDT
by
Iron Matron
(Civil Disobedience? It's not just for liberals anymore!)
To: Sub-Driver
I have hated Islam since the 1980s.
Over the last few years, I have read many articles here about adherents of the garbage religion kidnapping Sudanese into slavery...Gangraping nonmuslem women in Australia and the EU...Forcing whole villages in the Moluccas to convert, and then inflicting obscene mutilations on them...Demanding (sometimes successfully)sharia courts in Denmark, Holland, Canada...And of course terrorism....Bali, 911, the intifada...
My hatred of Islam in earlier years is NOTHING compared to the visceral loathing I now have for that "religion" and its adherents.
And I know I'm not alone. Here, at LGF, at Jihadwatch, on NGs, I see more and more people who understand that Islam is NOT a religion (of peace or otherwise) but at least partly a POLITICAL movement, one which intends to inflict slavery or death on every nonmuslem.
I believe the growing hatred Americans have for Islam will ultimately be the only thing that saves the west-or at least Noth America; at this point I care very little about the EU (ICC, Kyoto, Galileo, the OECD...)
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:05:12 AM PDT
by
kaylar
To: Sub-Driver
Hahahaha Mubarak! How can they possibly hate us more?
And as to the Israeli assassinations of Hamas leaders leading to "serious consequences" and "instability" in the region ,when have the Pallies stopped the former or worked against the latter?
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:07:08 AM PDT
by
Lakeside
To: kaylar
My hatred of Islam in earlier years is NOTHING compared to the visceral loathing I now have for that "religion" and its adherents. . . .And I know I'm not alone.
You are not alone. guaranteed!
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:10:04 AM PDT
by
Iron Matron
(Civil Disobedience? It's not just for liberals anymore!)
To: cynicom
Why does'nt Egypt invade Israel and have done with them??? They outnumber them five to one. Could it be they are cowards?
Yes, they are cowards. Irael has already done some pretty big whoop-a$$ on Egypt.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:11:19 AM PDT
by
Iron Matron
(Civil Disobedience? It's not just for liberals anymore!)
To: Physicist
Man, this one really hurts. I never saw it coming. Oh, sure, they've attacked our military, our government, our centers of economic power, and slaughtered thousands of our people, but who could have dreamed they actually hate us? They should know better than anyone that Islam is the religion of peace and love and baby kittens and butterfly picnics and all.
To: Sub-Driver
"He assassinates people who don't have the planes and helicopters that he has." Yes, just what have the Arabs invented, developed, or produced in the last 800 years?
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:12:08 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!)
To: Jim Noble
"Yes, just what have the Arabs invented, developed, or produced in the last 800 years?"
Suicicde bombers?
To: Right Angler
Suicicde=suicide
To: Jim Noble
Well, one would have to admit that the Arabs have fine tuned hate into an occupation.
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posted on
04/20/2004 7:15:43 AM PDT
by
cynicom
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