Al-Qalam 
PHILADELPHIA, PA - JULY 13: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about voting rights at the National Constitution Center on July 13, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Biden and Congressional Democrats are set to make another push for sweeping voting rights legislation as Republican state legislatures across the country continue to pass controversial voting access laws. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
American President Joe Biden is presently in Israel sucking up to the local governors. While proudly donning a Kippah, he announces “You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist!”
Straightaway, he has made his intentions very, very clear: Firm support for Israel’s continuance of tramping on other people and other people’s lands.
Because Zionism simply means “development of an Israeli homeland in a “holy” land – anybody’s land!
Biden left the United States when the country is sagging under extremely high summer temperatures, which is certainly not the least of his worries.
A down-sliding economy, gradual return of new Covid threats, and high fuel prices and oil resources are just a few of the Jinns that have helped to ignite the jets of his airplane to vanish abroad so he can mind other people’s business, in the true sense of the expression.
Encouraging Israel to “go for it” as far as oppressing Palestine is concerned. “You have our fullest support!” Instead of warning Israel that “Enough is enough, he again makes the same blunders as his hypocritical predecessors.
It’s time to stop this nonsense!, part of his mission is to “pacify” Iran to stop fiddling with the “black magic and mumbo-jumbo of Einstenian toys” (“Nuclear goodies are not meant to be fooled around with, by amateur, brown or black skinned people – please leave these to White experts”!)
The “second greatest democracy in the world”, a treasury of Human Rights and Morality, and Freedom of Expression and Immunity for Journalists, is also being most proudly represented by Uncle Joe, for his itinerary includes meeting up with that other self- proclaimed icon of anti- human rights Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia.
Despite the United States having found the Crown Prince guilty of plotting the gory butchery of Arab journalists like Jamal Khassoghi. Without any doubt.
But all this brief analysis is nothing new. It’s actually just short of utterly boring.
Leaders of the world have always – for some clear vested interest or other – worked towards leaving behind a world that is just a little more unstable, less understanding, less peaceful, less compromising, less friendly, less charitable…far more vicious, far greedier than the previous.
This wolfish, jackalish trait goes most unfortunately with that terrifying, torturous territory, termed, again, as power.
Ebrahim Essa
Durban
