Post by Moses on Jan 8, 2005 20:06:44 GMT -5
Arab Exports to the US Should Pass Through Israel, Say NeoCons[/size][/url]
By Ghulam Muhammed
Al-Jazeerah, December 17, 2004
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One of the most humiliating and degrading example of American neo-con lobby’s plan to bolster Israel’s hegemony over its immediate Arabs neighbours who are forced to sign peace treaty with Israel, is to make all US-Arab economic and trade deals go through compulsory ‘Israeli brokerage house’, so that Israel should be the overall control authority, on all US-Arab dealings, thus institutionally positioned to control Arab countries with its monopoly on all inter-US/Arab economic dealings.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick, who is in Cairo for the signing ceremony, is putting final stamp of a deal that grants Egyptian exporters exemption from US customs and trade quotas, only and if all such exporters use ‘Israeli investments and materials’. This is a clear case of total subservience of Egyptian exports to US, to the overall economic stranglehold of Israel.
Zoellick, one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century (PNAC) letter to President William Jefferson Clinton, has naturally called the accord, milked after torturous 18-month negotiations, as ‘ the most important agreement Egypt and Israel in two decades’.
The neo-cons in US administration is already treating whole of Arab and Muslim world as a defeated nation who should be saddled with onerous and exploitative terms of reparation for standing up to Israel and its protégé, the US.
US administration is seriously handicapped without any independent policy initiative to deal with Islamic world, without involving Israel or its backers. The price of such shortsighted mortgaging of its policy initiatives to Israel can never achieve a lasting peace between the US and the Islamic world.
GHULAM MUHAMMED, Mumbai – <ghulam_muhammed2@yahoo.co.in> <br>
By Ghulam Muhammed
Al-Jazeerah, December 17, 2004
<br>
One of the most humiliating and degrading example of American neo-con lobby’s plan to bolster Israel’s hegemony over its immediate Arabs neighbours who are forced to sign peace treaty with Israel, is to make all US-Arab economic and trade deals go through compulsory ‘Israeli brokerage house’, so that Israel should be the overall control authority, on all US-Arab dealings, thus institutionally positioned to control Arab countries with its monopoly on all inter-US/Arab economic dealings.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick, who is in Cairo for the signing ceremony, is putting final stamp of a deal that grants Egyptian exporters exemption from US customs and trade quotas, only and if all such exporters use ‘Israeli investments and materials’. This is a clear case of total subservience of Egyptian exports to US, to the overall economic stranglehold of Israel.
Zoellick, one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century (PNAC) letter to President William Jefferson Clinton, has naturally called the accord, milked after torturous 18-month negotiations, as ‘ the most important agreement Egypt and Israel in two decades’.
The neo-cons in US administration is already treating whole of Arab and Muslim world as a defeated nation who should be saddled with onerous and exploitative terms of reparation for standing up to Israel and its protégé, the US.
US administration is seriously handicapped without any independent policy initiative to deal with Islamic world, without involving Israel or its backers. The price of such shortsighted mortgaging of its policy initiatives to Israel can never achieve a lasting peace between the US and the Islamic world.
GHULAM MUHAMMED, Mumbai – <ghulam_muhammed2@yahoo.co.in> <br>