| (IsraelNN.com) Polices of the Bush administration, which several years were considered pro-Israel, are endangering the Jewish state, according to a growing number of experts. The American war in Iraq has encouraged anti-Western forces in Iran, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority (PA), they explained.
“There’s no Israeli interest being served by continued American presence in Iraq,” said Mark A. Heller, a researcher at the Tel Aviv University’s Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies. “Any initial goals that might have been served by getting rid of Saddam Hussein have long since been banked.” The Bush administration is “simply discredited in the region as a player,” said Yossi Alpher, a former head of the Jaffe Center. Bar Ilan University professor Eitan Gilboa asserted that removing Saddam Hussein from power “elevated the Iranian threat, and Iran is the most dangerous country in the world.” Heller added that the United States has a false image of itself. “It’s kind of a flattering image that Americans have of themselves and, frankly, that everyone has of America, that somehow the United States is capable of doing anything it sets its mind to and all it needs is political will. I think it’s a total misreading of reality.” |
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