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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (12775)	3/19/2002 5:43:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

haaretz.co.il Excerpt: This time, the United States doesn't need an Arab coalition - only support and a logistic base. In public, however, the Arab capitals are voicing their opposition to the attack. The leaders of these countries, all of them dictators, are not eager to jumpstart a precedent in which the United States topples regimes and bombs countries it dislikes. But this is not the Arabs' last word. The fact that the Palestinian initiative of the Saudi crown prince was born just around the time that the Cheney mission was announced may hint to a possible swap: Arab support in return for an imposed settlement in which Israel will withdraw to the 1967 borders. The alternative is a united Arab front against the attack on Iraq. In either case, Israel may find itself drawn into the fray: as the object of an imposed settlement, the price for Arab support; or as a major player, together with Turkey, providing the Americans with a logistic base. During their visits to Washington, Sharon and Fuad rushed to offer any assistance that might be needed, making it clear that overthrowing Saddam was in Israel's strategic interest. [...] __________________ Destabilizing Iraq, an Israeli strategic interest? But Len, I thought Americans elected an executive (branch) to mind US strategic interests first off?!? Anyway, Sharon and Fuad's warmongering campaign was an understatement of sorts... Indeed, it's in Zionism's highest interest to wage a war against Iraq but not for the sake of turning Iraq into a geopolitical shambles --that's the cheap story for public consumption. No, the real "strategic interest" of the anti-Iraqi scheme, if anything, lies in pitting the Arab street/world against the US. Again, the Judeofascist gang scrambles to swing the pendulum back into the familiar yet phoney polarity: US/Israel vs EU/Russia/Arabs. As the famed Victor Hugo put it, "Pour de vains resultats, faire de vains efforts..." () Gus () poesie.webnet.fr