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That burning smell might be World War III brewing in the Middle East |
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That burning smell might be World War III brewing in the Middle East
22:00pm 31st May 2007
There is something peculiarly horrific about the Middle East
situation.
It is like watching a car crash in slow motion - of the sort beloved
of Hollywood where cars, one after another, hurtle into tankers,
igniting a huge inferno.
You get the horrible feeling that something like World War III is
brewing in the Middle East.
The Lebanese army fights a new group of Islamic militants with
weaponry supplied by Israel, which really means the U.S. There seems
no limit to the number of increasingly militant groups being spawned
in the region, each one more ferocious than the last.
Meanwhile, there is no let-up in Iraq. May went out with a bang,
proving a deadly month for U.S. casualties, with 114 deaths.
In addition, we have the grim episode of British security men being
abducted.
Hope flickers when the U.S. and Iranian ambassadors sit down to talk
under the chairmanship of the Iraqi prime minister to see how peace
might be brought to Iraq. The Americans complain that Tehran is
supplying weaponry to Shia militants.
There is no progress as yet and it is hardly surprising. Iran fears
U=2ES. encirclement, as it has done for many years. The American
decision to strengthen its battle fleet in the region will not
dissipate those fears. Only the U.S. leaving Iraq will satisfy Iran.
Here, there is an intriguing overlap. Most Americans want the same
thing. Whether the U.S. public and Iranian public get what they both
want may depend on who are chosen as the next presidential candidates.
Time is short.
In Britain's case, Gordon Brown (it is said) was never keen on the
Iraq invasion and (it is said) will accelerate our withdrawal. We
shall see. But that will still leave Afghanistan =E2=80=94 another Iraq in =
the
making =E2=80=94 where Brown does not seem to want withdrawal. And General
McNeill, commanding the U.S.-led Nato force in the country, talks of
still being there in ten years=E2=80=99 time.
I can promise you, on my mother=E2=80=99s grave etc etc, that Western troops
will have cleared out, or been cleared out, long before that. The
general may contemplate another potential Vietnam with equanimity.
American voters will not.
The presence of American troops and bases in Afghanistan adds
logically to Iran=E2=80=99s fears of encirclement and claims Iran helps the
insurgents. It is a classic, diplomatic vicious circle.
The first party fears encirclement and attack. The second party
disclaims such a plan and uses hostile attempts to prevent it as proof
that the first party is a real enemy. Thus may wars begin =E2=80=94 and
spread, as each side seeks allies.
We should face the fact that Israel=E2=80=99s behaviour remains the chief
source of instability in the Middle East. When it is attacked from
Lebanon or Palestine, its revenge is fierce, often indiscriminate,
sometimes spectacular. The resultant civilian casualties are meat and
drink to the terrorists=E2=80=99 propaganda.
Once an object for so much sympathy from the West, Israel has become
arrogant, ruthless and apparently indifferent to the peace process.
There was a telling advertisement in the Times last week where a
veritable army of architects and planners protested about their
profession=E2=80=99s involvement in continuing to build illegal settlements=
on
land appropriated from Palestine - "to obliterate the idea of a viable
future Palestinian state".
The immense list of signatories is peppered with Jews, some practising
in Israel itself.
We all know there is one power which can easily bring Israel to heel -
the U.S. It shows no inclination whatever to do so. Nor, one fears,
will the would-be presidential candidates promise to do it.
The car crash goes on.
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