This news from Europe could be easily dismissed as just more mewlings from comfortable Euro-weenies. But it also coincides neatly with an unsettling report from Israeli source DEBKA (see below).
Over half of Europeans think that Israel now presents the biggest threat to world peace according to a controversial poll requested by the European Commission. According to the same survey, Europeans believe the United States contributes the most to world instability along with Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and North Korea.The specially commissioned poll which asked citizens 15 questions on "the reconstruction of Iraq, the conflict in the Middle East and World peace", has caused controversy in Brussels.
The European Commission is coming under fire for publishing the results of a number of questions - relating to Iraqi reconstruction - while failing to publish the results which revealed the extent of mistrust of Israel and the United States in Europe, according to Spanish daily El Pais.
According to El Pais, a massive 59 percent of Europeans said they believed that Israel is the biggest obstacle to world peace.
via EUobserver
DEBKA reports that influential Europeans are now working actively to neuter and eventually dissolve the state of Israel, starting with a U.N. or NATO military force to provide international oversight of Israel's decisions about the Palestinians.
Ariel Sharon, the focal point of European discontent, is aware and fighting back. But is European opinion, rife with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic feeling anyway, being prepared for the greatest sellout in history? Keep an eye on this one; American buy-in, probably to some Trojan Horse diplomatic scheme, will be required.
... a DEBKAfile informant dining at a Knightsbridge restaurant with a highly-placed British intelligence official heard him drop this remark: “Some people in the West have come to the conclusion that the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 was a mistake.” When asked to explain whether this meant that the Jews were to be evicted from the Middle East, he replied: “Certainly. Israel has a little more than 5 million Jews. If the United States and NATO were to finance their relocation in other countries, that would solve many Middle East problems.”Posted by Alan at October 31, 2003 06:02 AMThis is the scheme lurking behind the recent rush of anti-government political initiatives on the part of Israeli leftwing circles who maintain intimate connections in certain European capitals. The Israeli pilots’ revolt against operations in Palestinian territory was enthusiastically backed by the same group that went on to instigate the “Geneva understandings”. At the core of this draft is a panacea for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: All points at issue will be brought to international arbitration or handed over to international monitors.
Co-author Amram MItzna, the former Labor leader who lost the last general election to Ariel Sharon’s Likud, returned from Europe a few days ago and publicly questioned Sharon’s legitimacy as Israeli prime minister.
The realization of the Brussels plan would satisfy Arafat’s demand for internationalization of his dispute with Israel because it would internationalize the Jewish state.
Israel’s standing as an independent democracy would make way for its subservience to international rule.