How
to eliminate Saddam Hussein
The
best way to eliminate Saddam Hussein is not to bomb Bagdad but
trying to isolate him further. This is best done by recognizing
the Arab culture and the formost important thing to do is to
establish peace between Israel and Palestine and give the Palestinians
their own souvereign state.
The
Arab countries want to have peace in the region. They want to
cooperate with Israel because Israel has technology and only
by living in peace and cooperating the region of the Middle
East will prosper. A peaceful coexistence will have its effect
on the entire muslim population.
In
order to avoid further bloodshed in Israel as well as Palestine,
Israel should withdraw from the occupied territories and dismantle
the illegal colonies. That is the only way to bring peace. There
never will be peace if the spiral of violence is not broken.
How to break this spiral, how to stop the violence? How can
this be done in the case where two cultures that are based on
religions which advocate "an eye for an eye"? There
should be real and effective help from outside. The USA and
other powers should alter their views and start interfering.
The actual position of the USA does not help Israel at all.
On the contrary. Not only the economies do suffer, not only
the influence of the radical muslim governments like that of
Saoudi Arabia will grow in Palestine (damage done by Israel
is repaired by Saoudi Arabia), but especially hatred will grow
eventually to a non reversable degree.
There
is only one way to safeguard Israel's existence and that is
to walk the path of peace. Only if peace can be established,
cooperation will be possible. The result will be a new impulse
to the region's economies and growth. Only by prosperity these
people can coexist. The effect will be the further isolation
of the regime of Sadam Hussein because Iraq will not take place
in this new order and the elimination of Saddam Hussein by the
people of Iraq could be the result.
This is a long term strategy which can only be effective if
Ariel Sharon's government is replaced by a government which
has as goals the wellbeing of all Israel.
The
alternative is to wage war on Iraq. But war means taking a great
risk, not just for the peoples in the region, but also for the
rest of the world. Possibly a war will not be limited to the
region but will have an effect on all muslims and their fight
for an own identity: Kashmir, Indonesia, Egypt, Algiers. It
is also possible that Russia, now an allie of the West, could
choose the side of the Arab countries and again will be the
opponent of the USA. And then the war will be so severe that
the river Jordan will be filled with blood as was written in
the New Testament (Revelations).
There
is an important risk for the United States. If the US intervention
results in a large scale war, the world will not be grateful
and as a consequence the US can loose their prominent and dominant
position in the world.
Would
not it be wiser to recognize the State of an Independant Palestine
and aknowledge the existence of its people and safegueard the
peace for Israel? By doing so it not only means the recogmition
of Israel, but the recognition of the muslim culture. This recognition
is a first step to the modernization of this culture. The West
should strive to be the allie of the Arab World, not its imperialistic
adversary. If not, the fight against Western Imperialism will
go on and intensify.
Rudolf
A. Bruil, July 30th, 2002.
