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PROF GEORGE JOFFE: I have to say, I think the argument that this is linked into Shiia Islam is really a chimera. It takes away attention from the real problems of the region. They're all political in nature. In the case of Iraq it's to do with the process of governance. It's to do with the fact of the occupation and the consequences that has brought. In the case of Lebanon, it's to do with the question of occupation and the role played by Hezbollah as a form of national resistance, now supported it should be noted, by the Lebanese governments. Behind all that there is the political problem of the Palestinians and the Palestinian crisis that has now not been addressed properly for six decades. Now those things all come together. They reflect a series of political problems that if the West doesn't address them and address them very soon, will become part of a major confrontation and the terms of the confrontation at the moment are moving against Western interests.
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Bush and Israelis are working against WESTERN INTERESTS...
Europe needs its own military alliance anyway...NATO is clinically dead anyway...