ce jour<\/a> d\u00e9taille une litanie de critiques acerbes contre la politique virtualiste du pr\u00e9sident US.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab Bush’s democratic reform program for the Middle East has been a disaster for Israel and for moderate forces in the region, declared ex-Mossad analyst Yossi Alpher, one of the boldest of these critics.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Alpher, who also headed the Jaffe Center of Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, cited the Bush administration’s insistence on parliamentary elections in the Palestinian Authority last January, and the inclusion of Hamas in those elections despite Israel’s pleas and despite Hamas refusal to disarm its militia. Bush also strongly backed the Lebanon elections of spring 2005 that brought the radical Shiite group Hezbollah into government for the first time despite its refusal to disarm as well, Alpher noted.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb As a result, he said, We’ve ended up with militant Islamists on two fronts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb I’m all for democracy in the Middle East, said Alpher. But democracy does not begin and end with elections. This is the American concept. Allowing parties with their own private armies to run is a gross violation of democracy. Yet the administration didn’t just allow it; they encouraged it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Others faulted Bush for pressuring Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to allow more competitive elections for Egypt’s parliament last year. Those elections, monitored for the first time by international inspectors at U.S. insistence, resulted in an unprecedented increase in legislators affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, a formally outlawed Islamist group.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb It may be that Bush has created a Middle East much more difficult for Israel to live in, said Stephen P. Cohen, a senior scholar at the dovish Israel Policy Forum and another critic.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Alpher, Cohen and others singled out Bush’s drive to democratize Iraq as the single most dangerous legacy of his tenure to date from the perspective of Israel’s security. It’s a gift to Iran, Alpher said, referring to the resulting empowerment of Shiite political and militia groups close to Tehran. Bush singles out Iran as the center of the Axis of Evil. But Bush has done more to increase Iran’s clout than any other force.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tMaintenant, il reste \u00e0 se demander pourquoi, effectivement, il n’existe aucune force populaire arabe qui r\u00e9ponde \u00e0 la politique am\u00e9ricaniste (isra\u00e9lienne comprise), au point o\u00f9 la d\u00e9mocratie devient un r\u00e9gime contre-productif pour cette politique ; pourquoi la d\u00e9mocratie favorise le Hamas et le Hezbollah ; et ainsi de suite.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 18 ao\u00fbt 2006 \u00e0 06H29<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
La d\u00e9faite, \u00ac ou ce qui est per\u00e7u comme tel pour Tsahal dans le cas de l’affrontement Isra\u00ebl-Hezbollah, d\u00e9cha\u00eene les critiques jusqu’alors contenues. Une nouvelle vague de critiques vient d’experts ou analystes r\u00e9alistes pro-isra\u00e9liens de droite, en Isra\u00ebl et aux USA. Ils attaquent la politique de radicalisme d\u00e9mocratique de GW Bush (et des n\u00e9o-conservateurs). La… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5544,5787,1221,5788,2774],"class_list":["post-67894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-critiques","tag-democratisation","tag-faith-based","tag-islamistes","tag-israel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}