The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 243
The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order market prices, which is essential to the West's prosperity. " (Sunday Times, London U. K. 12 August, 1990) The newspaper has admitted the fact that these objectives are based on purely selfish grounds. In simpler words, it means that the West has rights over oil in the Gulf, and therefore it is going to war to protect those self-ascribed rights and cannot afford to allow Saddam Hussein to play with the market rise and fall of those prices. But in fact this is an incomplete admission. As a matter of fact, a part of these objectives is to safeguard Israel and to permanently insulate it from any potential threat from Iraq. Indeed the objective is to neutralise any future Muslim threat to Israel and to nullify any future challenge to the existence of Israel. So this was the primary objective, which of course is linked with the oil situation; because one of the purposes of establishment of Israel was to impose a sentry over Muslim countries so that it can be utilized in proxy, to punish those Muslim countries which are not conforming to the Western interests. THE GAINS AND LOSSES OF THE WAR Now I will say something of the Profit and Loss situation of this war. So far, the cost of this war has been 89. 5 billion U. S. dollars. It is stated that one billion dollars per day is the expense of this war and up to now the war has gone on for 30 days, that makes it 30 billion dollars. It is also stated that before the outbreak of hostilities, the U. S. had spent 9 billion dollars, the British government had spent 2 billion dollars and their daily running expenditure is not known with certainty. On top of this, a lot of money has been spent on purchasing the support of other countries. That has also to be added to the cost of this war. 21 billion dollars loan to Egypt has been written off. You can well imagine the price tag for the bargain of Muslim support. Israel has so far been promised 13 billion dollars as "prize money" for not taking immediate revenge for those few hundred of its citizens who were wounded in the scud missile attacks. Once Iraq has been weakened and demolished after the ravages of this war, then Israel could have a free hand to extract vengeance from Iraq. What a spectacle of "patience" Israel has presented to the world! And as a result of that, and in recognition of it, has been offered a gift of 13 billion dollars! A paper, published in Britain, called "Al-Arabia" has 243