Dwight David Obama: President Is Likened To Eisenhower

NEW YORK — The latest prediction from the Arab World is that President Obama shall transmogrify into a new Eisenhower, an American president who will ‘’force’’ Israel to withdraw from the West Bank as Eisenhower ‘’forced’’ the Britain, France, and Israel to retreat from Egypt in 1956.

The hope is spreading, coupled with a push for Mr. Obama to enforce his own version of a Pax Americana for the Middle.

‘‘The circumstances are ripe,’’ writes a prominent Egyptian political commentator, Abdelmoneim Saeed, a member of Egypt’s ruling parnd a senior columnist. “A new Eisenhower in the White House for Middle East issues is not something that will recur. We must pounce on this opportunity (with Obama) now,’’ Mr. Saeed asserted today in his syndicated column of the Saudi daily Asharq Alawsat.

This was a reference to what happened in 1956, when Eisenhower did a strategic favor to the president of Egypt at the time, Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose country, while flirting with the Soviet Union, was largely a non-aligned nation.

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