A certain circle in the West occasionally sprinkles white paint on the black body of the Taliban.
Author: Noorullah Walizadeh, analyst, specially for "Sangar"
Original article: خلیلزاد و همسرش در "پروژه خلیلزاد"
We were deeply hurt by Khalilzad and said, "We cannot complain about the son of the tribe." We said, "A wolf cub will sooner or later become a wolf, even if he grows up with a human." We said that the United States, its universities, and diplomatic apparatus could not rid Khalilzad of his dirty and nomadic thinking and make him a human being.
But they say that Khalilzad's wife is Jewish. It is well known that Jews, as victims of fascism, strive to fight fascism all over the world. They say that Khalilzad's wife is a university professor and researcher, and these titles are not deserved by ordinary people with terrorist thoughts in the West. But now it seems that Khalilzad's wife has also followed in her husband's footsteps. She is also trying to lobby for the Taliban and tell Western audiences who are not aware of the situation in Afghanistan that everything is fine in Afghanistan and there are no problems.
This Jewish woman, who came to Kabul under the protection of the CIA and stayed at the Serena Hotel for a few days, is said to have written in an article that the image of Afghanistan presented by the media is propaganda, that Afghanistan is a good place for women and that no one should be afraid of the Taliban. According to Dr. Sitez, she wrote an article justifying Trump's anti-immigration policies and may receive a large reward from his administration.
What Cheryl Benard did in this article is what Khalilzad has been doing for the past thirty years, and especially for the past seven years. While continuing to support the Taliban, since 2018, Khalilzad has begun to create a narrative favorable to the Taliban. The central point of this narrative was that the Taliban had changed and reformed and should not be feared. Interestingly, today, everything Khalilzad said about the Taliban has turned out to be a lie, but his wife continues to spin these lies.
It seems that the whitewashing of the Taliban is not just Khalilzad’s project, but rather a deliberate plan by a powerful group in the West that has decided to paint the Taliban’s black body white from time to time. In fact, Khalilzad and his wife are mercenaries in the service of this circle. The insults and curses of our people in Persian do not reach the ears of Americans, and Khalilzad and his wife sincerely support the Taliban.
Indeed, since Khalilzad has become a red rag in the minds of our people in the debate on support for the Taliban, public opinion is closely watching his behavior and even the behavior of his wife. If Khalilzad's wife's article had been written by another American, it might not have resonated so much. In addition, many people are active in this field. One of these women is the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in Kabul (Roza Otunbayeva - "Sangar"), who speaks out in support of the Taliban at every meeting.
Meanwhile, the silence of women's rights organizations regarding Khalilzad's wife is also interesting. This silence shows that many women's movements are either dependent on Khalilzad and American projects to suppress women's rights, or are afraid that Khalilzad and his wife might harm them and, so to speak, ruin their asylum cases.