Arabs now giving the West a chance

seny0rita
By seny0rita

Good read for our Arab friends--
if you care about west-middle east relations or at least politics in general, that is..

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1901225,00.html?xid=feed-y...

Excerpt from Time's Articles
["People want to fall in love with him, they want to believe in him, they want to embrace him," says Shibley Telhami, principal investigator for the 2009 Annual Arab Public Opinion Survey]

[Governments in the Arab world have welcomed the new tone adopted by Obama in his early outreach efforts. "They are discussing issues, showing their concerns, but they also listen," Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit said of Obama's team during a recent visit to Washington. "I think they are very much different from the Bush Administration." Last month, Jordan's King Abdullah II enthused on Meet the Press, "In the Middle East, this President provides hope ...]

You think the whole middle east-western world shebang is getting any brighter with the new US administration? Do you really think the Arabs are now opening up, loosening up a little..and/in giving the Pres.Obama a chance?

By Platao36• 3 Jun 2009 19:01
Platao36

lol Bleu, think they haven't been reading much :)

Ayman

Only God Can Judge Me

الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي

I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer

أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ

By bleu• 3 Jun 2009 18:52
bleu

And the people at Time see this as news? And they quote Arab officials as proof?

By seny0rita• 3 Jun 2009 18:27
seny0rita

@exiled

"Having a black man in the White House is part of a scam" LOL

Whose plan do you think it was? The blacks or the whites of the US? If it were the whites, they sure hate these Arabs that they sacrificed and chose to put a black man there just so they could fool the world.

By Platao36• 3 Jun 2009 18:19
Platao36

LOL Exiled :)

Ayman

Only God Can Judge Me

الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي

I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer

أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ

By anonymous• 3 Jun 2009 18:16
Rating: 2/5
anonymous

They want to make all Muslims Christian and they eat babies of poor countries fir breakfast. Having a black man in the White house is part of scam to fool the world. Be careful the westerners could be stalking your children right now with a bible and a fork...... Ha.... ha ha.......

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