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The turmoil across the Middle East and North Africa may be part of an effort to politically fragment the region and prevent its Arab influences from uniting and offering a potential threat to Israel and Western interests, officials within the region believe, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Middle East sources have expressed increasing concern that developments in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and potentially in Lebanon may “balkanize” the Arab countries. They say the impact would work in Israel’s favor “to keep Arab states in a perpetual state of instability and weakness.”
“The primary objective is to weaken the Arab states of North Africa which, if they ever united, would represent a potential threat to Israeli and Western interests,” according to Walid Hassan, a professor of international law at Pharos University in Alexandria, Egypt.
Egyptian analysts point to recent developments in neighboring Libya, which could lead to a civil war that would break up the North African country into two warring parts.
With Libya split, analysts say, leader Moammar Gadhafi could stay in the west and the revolutionary government loyal to Western interests would control the east, which has much of Libya’s oil production. Gaddafi in turn would use the western portion from which to launch attacks at the east.
With such a preoccupation, Libya would be less of a threat to Israel and Western interests, which would then have access to the oil-rich portion of the country.
Because bombing by countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to date has failed to get rid of Gadhafi, Middle East observers have begun to question Western motives.
“The Western campaign against Libya wasn’t undertaken to protect human rights or foster democracy,” said Mohamed al-Sakhawi, who heads Egypt’s Arabic Unity Party.
“It was launched with the aim of breaking Libya up politically so as to prevent the unification of three revolutionary Arab states – Egypt, Libya and Tunisia – which together might pose a threat to Israeli regional dominance.”
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