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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran
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To: philv who wrote (13973)1/13/2007 5:46:27 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) of 22250
 
Follow-up to my previous post:

Some Arab observers, too, have smelled a rat... they know they would have only themselves to blame should they let themselves fall for another "Arab Revolt" (against Iran):

New Year imperatives
The Arab world must be careful not to get trapped between Israel and Iran as America re-articulates its regional policy, writes Hassan Nafaa*

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To me, the most dangerous thing that can happen in the next two years is for Israel and the US to succeed in instilling the fear among Arab governments and predominantly Sunni societies that Iran has embarked on an expansionist project with the aim of creating a "Shia crescent" opposed to Arab interests, and in using this fear to rally a regional coalition against Iran. For some time Washington has been trying to promulgate the idea that Iran heads an "alliance of extremists" that includes Syria, Hizbullah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and that what is needed to confront it is an "alliance of moderates" -- Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. It takes no great feat of intelligence to understand that Israel will be America's natural candidate to lead the "moderates". Nor does it require great imagination to foresee that if this scenario comes into being, the Arab world will become sharply polarised between Iran and Israel, and that whichever of these two sides wins, the Arabs will come out losers.
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