Trump pledged to the Middle East: It is no longer “lectures on how to live”

When President Trump announced from the stage of a luxurious celebration hall in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that the United States has completed the construction and intervention of the nation, the global power in the world will not “give you lectures on how to live”, his fans erupted in applause.

He actually had decades of American policy in the Middle East, as he played for the grievances that have long been broadcast in cafes and situations from Morocco to Amman.

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump said during a sweeping speech at an investment conference in the Saudi capital for his leadership. “The interventions were interfering in the complex societies that they had not even understood.”

He urged the people of the region to draw “your destinies in your own way.”

The reactions to his speech quickly spread on mobile phone screens in the Middle East, where the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan – and recently American support for Israel, where its war in Gaza was intensified, which is On the brink of hunger Rest in public awareness and criticism by kings and dissidents alike.

Sultan Alam, a Saudi academic, Jokingly The statements of Mr. Trump seemed to appear to come from Franz Fanon, a Marxist thinker in the twentieth century who wrote about the dynamics of colonial persecution. The Syrians published the festive memes when Mr. Trump Declare It will end the US sanctions on their country, which was transferred to the war “in order to give them a chance of greatness.”

In Yemen – another country that is mired in the war and is subject to US sanctions – Abdullah Muhammad implicitly with the idea of ​​Mr. Trump on sovereignty, even when he expressed his frustration with American intervention.

“When will the countries know us and let us live like the rest of the world?” Mr. Mohamed, a 31 -year -old restaurant director in the capital, said when asked about the speech. The American air strikes bombed his city under the former President Joseph R. Biden Junior and Mr. Trump, targeted the Iranian -backed Houthi militia, even Mr. Trump Suddenly announced the ceasefire This month.

“Who is Trump to grant pardon, or lift the sanctions on a country, or impose it?” Mr. Muhammad said. “But this is how the world works.”

Mr. Trump’s comments came at the beginning of a four -day trip through three Arab countries in the wealthy Gulf: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. He focused in large part on commercial deals, including more than 1 trillion dollars in investment In the United States, the three Gulf governments pledged.

But his speech in his head made it clear that he had broader diplomatic ambitions for his journey. He expressed an “enthusiastic desire” that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will follow two neighbor, the Emirates and Bahrain, to recognize the situation of Israel. (Saudi officials said that this will not happen until after the establishment of a Palestinian state.) He said he had a strong desire to reach an agreement with Iran on its nuclear program, adding that he “never believed in the presence of permanent enemies.”

On Wednesday, meet The new leader of Syria, Ahmed Al-Sharra-is a former jihadist who led the rebel coalition The powerful man overthrew Bashar al -Assad. Mr. Trump presented a picture with Mr. Al -Shara, the Saudi Crown Prince, in a picture that brought down the jaws in the region and beyond.

Mr. Muhammad, director of the Yemeni restaurant, said: “O shouted, what happened is really unbelievable.”

Mr. Trump’s speech was a speech that sometimes took more than 40 minutes.

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the hometown of Islam, he neglected to mention that he said before that “Islam hates us” and that the Qur’an knows “some of the very negative atmosphere.” Instead, he praised the Kingdom’s heritage.

The friendliness stood in front of the Saudi crowd unlike Mr. Biden cold Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the actual Saudi ruler who directed a The bombing campaign for years In Yemen and it was widely supervised Campaign against the opposition. When Mr. Biden visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, he said that he told the Crown Prince that he believed he was responsible for 2018 killing Jamal Khashogji, a column writer in the Washington Post criticizing the royal family rule.

Instead, Mr. Trump collected praise in the Arabian Peninsula and Prince Muhammad, describing him as an “incredible man.”

“In recent years, many American presidents have been afflicted by the idea that it is our duty to look at the lives of foreign leaders and use the American policy to distribute justice for their sins,” said Mr. Trump.

His statements left some Arab listeners concerned about what may mean the potential for American pressure on human rights violations of their countries.

Ibrahim Al -Masadi is the son of a The 75 -year -old Black America Which was arrested in the Kingdom due to critical social media functions; His father was released, but he is not allowed to leave the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In an interview, Mr. Al -Masadi said that he hopes that Mr. Trump will speak to Saudi officials Father’s issue During his visit – and that he tried without success to reach the officials through his administration. He sees it as a kind of violation of human rights whose previous American departments had pressured Saudi officials.

“They are normalizing my father’s condition, which is unnatural,” he said of the Trump administration.

A White House spokeswoman did not answer questions about whether the president or his aides had raised human rights issues with Saudi officials. In response to a question about the reaction to his speech, Anna Kelly spokeswoman said: “The president received a widespread praise for his speech.”

Abdullah Alwood, a member of the Saudi Opposition Party in exile and a prominent religious cleric imprisoned in the Kingdom, called the public relations ruse in favor of Prince Muhammad.

He added that it was irony that Mr. Trump was praising in the Middle East, which was built by the people of the region when he was speaking to an audience spread with foreign billionaires and “in front of an authoritarian leader who brutally silenced all the opposition.”

In the celebration hall in Riyadh, Mr. Trump received an existing applause.

“The president’s speech was actually discussed,” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said in a press conference on Wednesday.

In an interview, Mr. Alamer, a colleague of the New Lines Institute, a research group in Washington, said in an interview that the president’s words reflect the topics, “which are usually associated with left -wing and anti -imperialist thinkers.”

“Although this is surprising, in the sense that, as a pride, we are used to be the subject of American lectures and interventions, it is not surprising as well when we consider that the new right-wing popular movements-in the Gulf and the United States-borrowed some of this discourse from leftists, socialists and re-progress in the world of conservation.”

Nigad Bourai, a prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer, said that he hesitates to read a lot in Mr. Trump’s speech, given that he was in Saudi Arabia primarily to talk about investments.

But for Mr. Buri, Mr. Trump was merely sincerely about what American presidents were always interested in-American interests-regardless of the extent of the former presidents of their business schedules in comments on human rights and democracy.

“The United States gives priority to its own interests,” he said. “Trump expresses his views frankly, and this is evident in all his sermons.”

Shoya Al -Mousawa She contributed to the reports from SANA, Yemen; Rania Khaled From Cairo Ismail l From Dubai Hwaida Saad and Jacob Robai From Beirut and Muhammad Haj Kadour From Damascus.