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Professor at Complutense University of Madrid and author of "Syria in Perspective".
As Spain’s song for the 2002 Eurovision edition proclaims, for the last one hundred plus years “Europe's living a celebration!”
This coarse and vulgar plot reveals much more than all that, as it exposes the astonishing and unstoppable decadence of the United States.
The collective West is using the World Cup to emphasize its well-ingrained orientalist prejudice against Arabs, a xenophobic caricature very well dissected by Edward Said in his book Orientalism.
Normalizing Arabs involved in the plots are all alien to Bilad Al-Sham, and thus irrelevant to the outcome of a struggle of decades, if not centuries.
The use and abuse of the pretended image of Russian/Soviet tanks rolling through the German forests to the heart of Western Europe is a revival of those Cold War B films.
After a long decade of an imposed, cruel and bloody winter, the political recovery of the Arab block as an international actor is taking shape precisely around Bilad al-Sham.
The question here is if the US will be capable to heal this mental wound with more maturity than it demonstrated after fleeing Saigon.
Some western states seem to be developing an Orwellian foreign policy condemned to the same failure as that of France, the UK and the US.
Self-absorbed by domestic tensions, Spain wade quickly out of the international arena.
