Annas [Archives:2005/835/Press Review]

18 Apr. 2005
Main headlines

– Yemen's fragility, American accusation or Arab characteristic?

– The president stresses hunting down those indirectly involved with al-Houthi

– The movement fell, the idea remains, Skeptics about negotiations with Razzami

– University teachers refuse government patch-up reforms for university situations

– Yemen: No normalization with Israel before commitment to comprehensive settlement and establishment of the Palestinian state

– It does not allow plurality of media, Prime Minister refers press draft law to Shoura Council and involves the Journalists Syndicate in its amendments

Columnist Dr Hosni al-Jawshaie writes saying the American president is still expressing his happiness and pride of the democracy he has made in Iraq and which he considers an example to be followed by Middle East countries. It is not strange for this man to twist the facts and visualize the ugly as beautiful and the right as wrong.

The American president is boasting of founding a democratic regime in Iraq on remains of Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein. Many of the American politicians have mentioned that the present regime led by the American forces is no less ugly than the regime of Saddam Hussein, rather bloodier and more corrupt. The democratic system of which Bush is talking is just a time bomb that will go off immediately after the departure of the American forces from Iraq because it is a sectarian regime and does not express the population reality there.
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