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Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY Israel needs a regional war By Hassan Tahsin Published on 09 December 2002 Since coming to power as Israel’s Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon has been relying solely on military might to solve his nation’s problems. He has rejected any return to the peace process. Backed by extremist Jewish terrorist organizations, he is headed for war, with no opposition from the moderates because their policy is based on the same expansionist racist ideology. He has succeeded, with the help the Bush White House, in destroying the Palestinian Authority, claiming that it was incapable of shouldering its responsibilities or of imposing control in the areas of self-rule. His strategy was to make it a condition that the Palestinians cease their acts of resistance before any negotiations could take place. At the same time, to ensure that negotiations do not to take place, he sent his army to reoccupy Palestinian towns that were under self-rule, committing massacres, destroying buildings and bulldozing agricultural land. When Palestinians resisted, Sharon called the Palestinian Authority a terrorist organization. American support for this position enabled him to repudiate all previous agreements, beginning with Madrid and ending with Oslo. At this point we must wonder: does Sharon merely wish to regain control of Palestinian lands, or is he preparing for a new war in the region. Arab countries chose the path of peace a long time ago. One of the most important steps in that direction was the peace treaties between Egypt and Israel and between Jordan and Israel. The Arab strategy was to work for a new balance of power and interests in the region. It also allowed a number of Arab countries to enter into a process of growth that may reflect positively on their strategic ability in the near future. This Arab direction robbed Israel of its wide use of military strength in all regional conflicts, which was essentially the real source of its power in the region. The Israeli leadership found that it had lost a lot due to peace. Israel had achieved the peak of its regional expansion in June 1967, but was forced to enter into negotiations that led to its shrinking regionally. At the same time, it had to face the first intifada followed by the current one, both of which it failed to crush. These intifadas caused it to suffer huge losses in addition to being forced to retreat from southern Lebanon due to the severity of the Lebanese resistance. Therefore, it is necessary for Israel to revive its military dominance of the region. However, it will not start its war now; it will be tied up a great deal with the American stand on Iraq. If Washington strikes at Baghdad, the war will cause dangerous turbulence within the region and this may be an opportune time for Israel to start its war. The aim of the war will be to destroy Arab capability, to destroy the development that some Arab countries have achieved and Arab unity that has long worried the Israeli leadership. Without a regional war, Israel will lose a lot, both politically, economically and socially because it will lose the reason for the gathering of all Jews of different and conflicting nationalities in this stretch of land. It is expected now that the Israeli military organization and the terrorist religious extremist parties will have a role in pressuring the moderate right inside Israel to hold on to Sharon. Israel needs him to insure its existence. They believe him to be capable of leading the upcoming war, which Israel needs to avert any splintering that would destroy a society that exists on no real foundation. 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