Podcast: Latest teleconference with American students
October 12th, 2008Cross-posted from our podcasting site:
We were extremely excited to be doing this again. I love it that today we live in a world where with just a few clicks you can connect yourself with people and hear their views or express your own without having to worry about the geographical limitations.
For the third teleconference (we did this previously here and here), we spoke with students from York Central High, Pennsylvania. They were studying about the Middle East in their Global Studies course and wanted to know from us as people (rather than simply relying on the media) what we think/feel about certain issues.
This time we had the following people present:
Amira from Bahrain, Eva from Israel, Sameh from Gaza, Palestine, Mohammad from Jordan, and myself. Together we did our best to answer the questions by high school students from York Central High, covering all of these topics:
Amongst a few other things!
We hope that you will enjoy this podcast. I apologize for the quality, but we had little control over that.
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This world we live in which the US is the only superpower has been disastrous for the Arabs. The US Empire is now declining. Obama will slow down this decline. McCain will expedite it. Therefore, McCain is better for the Arabs.
This was great and enjoyable. What you guys are doing is really necessary. It’s nice to see American students reaching out.
You may really wish to reconsider that. Under a McCain-Palin administration, we will re-live what we went through under Bush, but in an even more extreme fashion considering Palin’s evident inexperience and record of unethical abuse of power.
I don’t want anything bad to happen to Americans, they’re not responsible for their government’s crimes just as much as we’re not responsible for ours, and I wish the current American government felt the same way about us. Many people who voted for Bush admittedly regretted it. What I want is for the rest of them to wake up and realize that they are still the “superpower” and should therefore vote for not just a government that respects their demands, but one that respects justice and human rights abroad instead of abusing them so shamelessly as the Bush administration did, and putting someone exactly the same (if not worse) in power.
Obama may not be perfect for us Arabs, and offers absolutely nothing to the Palestinian/Israeli issue (where as a politician he cannot afford to be anything but overwhelmingly pro-Israel) but he’s certainly not a person who embraces war as openly as McCain and Palin do despite their ignorance. McCain is also running a dirtier campaign, one that thrives on personal attacks and fear-mongering, something that is both dangerous and utterly tedious.
I will not be perfectly happy as an Arab, either way, but at least with Obama I can feel more safe and respected.
Murad:
Indeed, thanks for listening.
Obama would probably be just as bad as mccain when it comes to the middleeast. I seriously doubt that under obama things are really going to “change” foreign policy wise.