There's an English proverb that says, "Actions speak louder than words," and another proverb that says, "The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on." This applies to prepaid media outlets that publish fabricated and misleading articles and reports in exchange for money regardless of credibility. These are mercenary journalists. Prostitutes are more honorable than such mercenaries.
I recently followed the media campaign against the United Arab Emirates waged by Western media outlets that publish articles and reports whose sole purpose is to tarnish its reputation and create a bad stereotype image. These news agencies and newspapers include CNN, Reuters, and others.
The obvious truth, which no reasonable person can ignore, is that the campaign is focused and organized against the United Arab Emirates, even though there are six countries in the Arabian Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. However, the focus is on the UAE during the American-Israeli-Iranian conflict. There are countries in the Arabian Gulf region, especially Qatar and Saudi Arabia, that are trying to make the UAE a scapegoat and are funding websites, newspapers, magazines, and pages on social media and YouTube, where they accuse the UAE of involvement in Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and Syria. They have not left any problem in the world without accusing the UAE of being the reason for it.
There is no doubt that every country suffers from problems, but the media deals with these problems with double standards. In a meeting held in the Oval Office during Ronald Reagan's presidency, one of his aides called Chilean President Augusto Pinochet a "son of a Bitch." Reagan retorted that he was "America's son of a Bitch." The truth is that this American "son of a Bitch" was responsible for the disappearance of tens of thousands of dissidents whose bodies were never found, or who were thrown into the streets by security forces, blindfolded, with their hands tied behind their backs, and a bullet in their heads.
The American-Israeli war against Iran contains many incomprehensible elements. For example, when a journalist in the Australian version of British newspaper "The Spectator" praised Iran, saying, "Iran will be the center of the Middle East in the future, and this great nation with its rich history will, with its talents, regain its place on the global economic and cultural stage, becoming once again a gateway between East and West," it suggests something very suspicious. This British journalist of Iranian-Swedish origin—a rather intriguing combination—wrote a love letter to Iran, yet ironically, he describes the United Arab Emirates as an authoritarian Islamic dictatorship. Look how he tries to mislead the reader. The article is a blatant example of British media hypocrisy, and the British are masters at it. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair still works as an advisor in the UAE, licking the boots of its rulers because he receives a salary from them that guarantees him a comfortable retirement.
There's plenty of evidence that any novice in history could say that what The Spectator published is nonsense. Britain, once an empire on which the sun never set, became a mere appendage and vassal of the United States after being stripped of its colonies, one by one, like a stripper in a striptease taking off her cloth, piece by piece. And since your memory is as short as a goldfish's, perhaps I need to remind you that during World War II, your country was starving due to the German naval blockade, and that without American aid and the soldiers of the colonies, Hitler would have succeeded in conquering your royal palaces after conquered most of Europe, When V-1 and V-2 rockets had become part of your daily routine, especially in London.
The economic indicators on the London Stock Exchange plummeted 25% during the first year of WW2, yet not a single foolish journalist wrote that your country had no future. Do we need to talk about the slap you received in Egypt in 1956 when your last soldier left Egypt and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, and you tried to invade Egypt in cooperation with France and Israel? The aggression failed, and your failure became the favorite talk for whoever had nothing to talk about. The Egyptians wrote insults against your royal family and troops on the walls, and your army became a laughingstock.
Britain, whose newspapers are filled with such nonsense, was responsible for bloody massacres in India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Iraq, and Yemen, in addition to the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the Nakba of 1948 in Palestine. Your country is starving, and your people have nothing to eat because of your government's foolish policies of groveling before the American master. Your universities survive on funding from the Gulf states, especially the UAE, and scholarships for Emirati students at British universities. Your economy depends on Gulf oil, with the UAE at the forefront. Your army has become a laughingstock and is among the weakest in Europe. Instead of addressing your own problems, you want to send troops to the Strait of Hormuz and fight Iran. The Americans will do it, withdraw, and leave you to face Iran alone. When hundreds of your soldiers' coffins return to you, you will regret it and cry out in the media.
If Dubai is a city built on sand, can you tell us what exactly Britain built upon?
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