11/05/2025
Look at this valuable translated article, written just a few hours before the voting results, by one of the most prominent, best-selling Arab authors, Adham Al Sharqawi:
"We may agree with Zohran Mamdani on some positions and disagree with him on others. One might even ask: what do New York elections have to do with us?
All of that is valid — yet what is happening there goes far beyond a local race for a major city hall; it echoes a much deeper civilizational shift shaking the very core of the American psyche.
These elections expose a fracture within the American narrative that has long presented itself as the guardian of global liberal values. From the heart of New York — a city once seen as the symbol of Western modernity and openness — a loud debate now emerges about identity, justice, and the meaning of being “American” in a rapidly changing world.
Part of this shift traces back to October 7 and the unprecedented moral collapse of the West in the face of the genocide in Gaza. The great lies about freedom and rights have been laid bare before the public, revealing that the so-called “international order” was nothing but a tool of domination.
Thus, the issue is no longer about Palestinians alone — it has struck the depths of the Western conscience itself.
When British journalist Piers Morgan told the Zionists, “Be careful — the world is changing, and you’ll have no friends in twenty years,” he was describing a new moment of awareness in Western history, where nations have begun to reclaim the very values that wars were once waged in their name.
Therefore, what is unfolding in New York is merely the first tremor in a long civilizational earthquake — one that will shake the American model from within, between a new generation that sees justice beyond the traditional white-Christian framework, and an older one still clinging to the illusion of moral superiority that convinces no one anymore.
