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SUBJECT:  MEDIA REACTION: UAE-US BILATERAL FRIENDSHIP 
 
 
¶1.  Summary:  A UAE columnist in "Al-Bayan" is critical of the UAE's 
relationship with the U.S.  He opines that the UAE's devotion to 
bilateral relations with the U.S. has not prevented poor treatment 
from the U.S., citing DP World and the detention of an Emirati 
student.  End Summary. 
 
¶2.  On 09/02, Emirati columnist Abdul-Aziz Khalil Al-Mutawa wrote in 
his column in Dubai-based Arabic daily "Al-Bayan," (circulation 
85,000): 
 
"In less than one year, the UAE received from the United States - 
the champion of justice, truth, freedom, peace and democracy - its 
reward of friendship.  The value of this reward came in two ways, 
neither giving off the smell or taste of friendship and nor 
containing any friendly ethics.  The first one: Annulling a legal 
contract consistent with the rules of globalization and its 
practices under which a UAE establishment, Dubai Ports World, would 
manage a number of American ports.  The excuse was uglier than the 
guilt itself, expressed openly and without any other justification 
than that this institution belonged to an Arab Muslim country posing 
a threat to the security of the United States of America.  As for 
the second: The detainment of an Emirati student in an American 
airport for 29 hours, along with his wife and three children whose 
ages did not exceed 4 years.  He was arbitrarily prevented from 
visiting the United States of America, although he had committed no 
crime nor been charged with anything.  This student had studied in 
the United States for several years and carried a genuine visa 
issued by the American embassy in the United Arab Emirates. 
 
UAE's friendship to the United States, built over the decades, did 
not stop the UAE from suffering the American arrogance that is 
Zionist flavored.  Likewise, UAE's position on the war on terror did 
not help.  The UAE-US friendship has not even helped us in the 
liberalization of trade.  Under what bond can we best describe these 
events?  Are they there to test the level of one friend's respect 
for his friend, or to remind the friend of the distance that's 
keeping them apart?  Or are they to punish this friend for his noble 
stance towards the tragedies and calamities that have befallen his 
brethrens in religion, blood, language, land, history and joint 
fate? 
 
Whatever the case, these two events that provoke anger and 
resentment should not be passed over in silence.  The first event 
should not be interpreted as a mere security precaution, because 
security precautions do not cause a blunt, irreversible and 
indisputable refusal.  The second event should also not be 
interpreted as security error, because any security novice is fully 
aware that any terrorist or criminal, no matter how stupid does not 
have one of his family members, let alone his children accompany him 
in his terrorist adventures! 
 
These two events can help one understand the views and determinants 
used by American decision makers.  Among them are: First, the 
flagrant racism with which the United States of America deals with 
Arabs and Muslims...  Secondly, America hates the Arab and Islamic 
world in particular, a feeling completely shared by Europe, and 
which is evident throughout their diplomatic relations, military 
alliances and movements to bring religions and cultures closer to 
each other with Arabs.  Even our attempts to obliterate ourselves 
from our own identity and deny it so as to win Western culture did 
not do us any good.  This proves Allah's words when he said: "You 
will never please the Jews and Christians until you follow their 
creed" - Verse 120, Surat Cow.  This is why the Islamic and Arab 
world in the eyes of the West, and America in particular, will 
perpetually remain antagonists to Western civilizations... 
 
Thirdly, the multilateral friendships between the United States of 
America and Arab countries, despite the alliances, and political and 
commercial charters, are nonexistent in the dictionary of American 
policy, and will not be in the future except as a shining mirage in 
the US desert of estrangement that covers everything that is Arab. 
The US only took this friendship as a pathway to walk through the 
rough roads that might hinder the pursuit of its plans to stay as 
one of the poles, and the only major force in the world under the 
guise of a theatrical war on terrorism, including the control of the 
sources of oil, and the domination of the US dollar on the global 
economy and the spread of globalization, which does not permit the 
world to extract itself from the subordination of the state of the 
 
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American economy... 
 
Fourthly, rationality, moderation, and realism are important musical 
tools on which the fifth column remains playing.  This column is 
paid by the US to convince people of good conduct to walk in its 
footsteps, despite that this musical composition only moves the 
feelings of beneficiaries, even if it was at the expense of their 
own countries interests.  Hence, the United States relies heavily on 
the fact that those beneficiaries are their strategic front line of 
defense against the reactions of the Arab governments and their 
people to its shameful deeds.  These beneficiaries with their 
defeated mentality, their biased moderation towards Arabism and 
Islam, and their fictional realism in facing the American paranoia, 
along with the Israeli paranoia from all that is Arab and Muslim, 
ultimately only serve American and Israeli interests, from which 
Arabs and Muslims will only reap further slaps!". 
 
 
 
 
SISON