An Egyptian government newspaper on Sunday blasted the United States, the United Nations and the European Union for doing nothing about Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's rejection of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians.
"The butcher's (Sharon's) announcement ... has not met any opposition from the supporters of the (peace) process, the United States, the European states and the United Nations," complained the state-run Al-Akhbar daily in an editorial.
Its editor-in-chief Galal Dawidar accused Premier Sharon of "exploiting the situation of madness that the United States has gone through since September 11" to scrap the self-rule deal signed in the year 1993 with the Palestinians.
Sharon said Friday that as far as Israel is concerned the Oslo peace accords - the centerpiece of the Middle East peace process - and all subsequent agreements "no longer exist". Dawidar stated that the world's silence on Israel justified the Arabs' rejection of a United States war against Iraq.
"Even if it were proved that Baghdad is developing weapons of mass destruction, we ask Washington to tell us what it did against Israel's arsenal, which is dozens of times larger than Iraq's, used to blackmail all the states of Middle East," he wrote. (Albawaba.com)
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