The Saudi Arabian Arab News recently ran an opinion piece that explained the recent international maneuvers surrounding the Iraqi crisis as a confluence of Israeli and American interests in weakening Europe. The writer, Hassan Tahsin, claims that the states interested in EU destabilization are the United States, ?which seeks to retain its unilateral dominance over the world, followed by Israel, which seeks to destroy the power and cohesiveness of the European Union to insure its economic interests and Jewish capital on the old continent.?
The article opens with a quote attributed to ?[a]n Israeli professor and military historian at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem... ?We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even to Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.... We have the capability to take the world down with us and I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.?? The Arab News columnist surmises, ?perhaps Israel?s policy makers thought it more prudent to have their threats come from unofficial sources so that the Israeli government would not be reprimanded by European nations which still, one way or another, back the Jewish state in many of its terrorist acts.? In addition to Europe, however, the article says that Israel was implying ?a warning to Arab countries in anticipation of the extremist stand that Israelis will take toward the so-called peace process, a stand guaranteeing that a fully autonomous Palestinian state will never come into being.?
As for Europe, Israel was acting as the spokesman for America, the Saudi article intimates, saying, ?The second target of these statements are the European capitals which reject America?s unilateral decision-making on the invasion of Iraq ? the so-called axis of rejection, France, Germany and Belgium.... It is clear that the arrogant American stand on Iraq has generated a degree of conflict within the European group and this is the first of its kind in the history of the European collective.? The reason for American/Israeli threats, Tahsin writes, is the US worry over ?French-German understanding, whose power has grown in light of common political stands and the creation of the European legion in anticipation of dispensing with NATO... a real threat to [American] dominance whether over Europe or the world at large. This was reconfirmed when the axis nations used their veto inside NATO, refusing aid to Turkey in the event of an attack during the course of the US?s self-serving war.?
The article opens with a quote attributed to ?[a]n Israeli professor and military historian at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem... ?We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even to Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.... We have the capability to take the world down with us and I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.?? The Arab News columnist surmises, ?perhaps Israel?s policy makers thought it more prudent to have their threats come from unofficial sources so that the Israeli government would not be reprimanded by European nations which still, one way or another, back the Jewish state in many of its terrorist acts.? In addition to Europe, however, the article says that Israel was implying ?a warning to Arab countries in anticipation of the extremist stand that Israelis will take toward the so-called peace process, a stand guaranteeing that a fully autonomous Palestinian state will never come into being.?
As for Europe, Israel was acting as the spokesman for America, the Saudi article intimates, saying, ?The second target of these statements are the European capitals which reject America?s unilateral decision-making on the invasion of Iraq ? the so-called axis of rejection, France, Germany and Belgium.... It is clear that the arrogant American stand on Iraq has generated a degree of conflict within the European group and this is the first of its kind in the history of the European collective.? The reason for American/Israeli threats, Tahsin writes, is the US worry over ?French-German understanding, whose power has grown in light of common political stands and the creation of the European legion in anticipation of dispensing with NATO... a real threat to [American] dominance whether over Europe or the world at large. This was reconfirmed when the axis nations used their veto inside NATO, refusing aid to Turkey in the event of an attack during the course of the US?s self-serving war.?