New Obama administration should shift foreign policy
The election of Barack Obama as president marks the end of a long nightmare. Eight years of civil rights abuses, the invasion of Muslim countries, and botched government responses to natural disasters. By electing Barack Obama, America has finally legitimized its African-American citizens after a repulsive history of slavery, discrimination and apartheid. I trust president-elect Obama will change America's foreign policy and restore much needed credibility to the United States. A good place to start would be the Middle East.
The Palestinians have been forcibly displaced, dispossessed and disenfranchised not because of anything they do, but because that is the only way to create a Jewish state in a land where there is a pre-existing indigenous majority population that happens to be overwhelmingly non-Jewish.
One important move that would gain worldwide favorability to the U.S. is if the Obama administration plays a fair role in the Palestine-Israel conflict. Over the past 60 years, U.S. stanch support of Israel's military occupation, apartheid and injustices towards the Palestinian people has caused discontent towards the U.S. throughout the world. Let there be change, and let it start with Israel.
Sammy Haddad
graduate-engineering
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