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Sharons regional agenda
by Khalid
Amayreh
It is amply clear by now that
Ariel Sharon remains faithful to his old virulent views about the
Palestinian question, the ultimate root-cause of instability and
insecurity in the Middle East.
These views, needless to say,
are manifestly racist and unmistakably pugnacious and can be compared,
with little exaggeration, with Hitlers approach toward Jews.
Indeed, Sharons behavior
since he was elected Prime Minister of Israel on 6 February indicates that
he is not the changed man Zionist propagandists and apologists have
claimed he has become.
Far from being a rehabilitated
man, Sharon actually seems intent on pursuing a policy of sabre-rattling,
bellicosity and venomous incitement throughout the region, all for the
purpose of making the Zionist State both the police and master of the
Middle East.
We all saw recently how the
hero of the Sabra and Shatilla massacres ordered his occupation army
to impose a hermetic siege on Palestinian population centers, effectively
reducing the West Bank into as many as 45 crowded enclosures which some
human rights organizations described as concentration camps minus the
gas chambers.
That siege, the sheer
barbarity of which transcends reality, is still intact, and its nefarious
psychological and other impacts on men, women and children are endured
round-the-clock.
The Palestinians are still the
main target of Sharons venom, but other countries and peoples in the
region are also on his agenda.
These include Egypt, the first
Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, and also Jordan, which
the certified war criminal still views as the ultimate Palestinian
homeland, in addition to Syria, Iraq and Iran.
According to press reports,
Sharon spent the bulk of his maiden visit to Washington, DC, as Prime
Minister in fanning the flames of hatred and incitement against the Arab
States and Iran.
He reportedly urged the U.S.
to scale down arms supplies to Egypt, arguing that the most populous Arab
country shouldnt be allowed to achieve even a distant military parity
with the Zionist regime.
Zionist sources denied that
Sharon had made such requests to President George W. Bush.
However, it seems that Sharon
did talk about Egypt to people who influence
Bush and certainly berated Egypt during a meeting with the Jewish lobby.
Moreover, Sharon had the
audacity to complain that Egyptian President Husni Mubarak was not doing
what the Zionist premier said he should be doing, namely hectoring and
cajoling Yasser Arafat to surrender to Israel by accepting her
generous offer in the West Bank.
Sharons anti-Egyptian
remarks ought to be taken very seriously, as they are indicative of his
intention to see Israel achieve unchallenged military and strategic
supremacy in the region.
His ominous intentions to that
effect were further accentuated by his repeated insinuations about
Irans alleged endeavors to acquire weapons of mass destruction,
as if only the Zionist regime has that right.
Of course, he didnt utter a
single word about Israels huge arsenal of nuclear, chemical and
biological weapons, which, he would have us believe, is for peaceful
purposes!
In short, Sharon is trying
rabidly and frantically to use the American sword to subjugate and subdue
Arab and Muslim peoples in the Middle East in order to enable Israel to
impose its hegemony throughout the region. In this, he is imitating the
Biblical figure Esther who incited the king of Persia to kill the enemies
of the Jews in his kingdom.
In light, it is imperative
that the principal Arab and Islamic States in the region make it
abundantly clear to this impetuous war criminal that his threats would
definitely boomerang on him.
More to the point, Arab
States, especially in the Gulf region, should seriously demonstrate to the
United States that her relations and interests in the region would suffer
irreparably if the U.S. continues to back Zionist aggression and
bellicosity.
More importantly, the rise of
Sharon to power in the Zionist regime and the growing drift among Zionists
toward religious and fascist extremism should serve as an appropriate
occasion for contemplating some form of strategic cooperation between the
Arab States and Iran.
Indeed, this cooperation is
becoming a pressing necessity as never before.
Source:
by courtesy & 2001 Arabic
Media Internet Network (AMIN)
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