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The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order in the world. There are other dreadful aspects of this dream, which will be unveiled with the passage of time, as I noted earlier. Israel would not withdraw from the West Bank at any cost, rather I suspect that the foundation has been laid even for the Israeli occupation of Eastern Jordan. King Hussein of Jordan had no choice but to remain neutral in the present conflict. The only crime he committed, from the point of view of the Western powers, was that in a press conference, held a few days ago, he expressed his great anguish at the grave atrocities of the allied forces against the innocent civilians of Iraq. His comments were based on the claims made by the allies in their own declarations and defence news-bulletins which provided a clear picture of the happenings in Iraq. Imagine the extent of destruction when one bomber is getting airborne every minute for a bombing spree on Iraq. Such extensive bombing has never before been undertaken in the history of the world! Even the bombardment in the Vietnam war which continued for several years has little or no significance before this carnage. In such circumstances, a conclusion can be drawn of the extent of death and destruction. There must have been hundreds of thousands of casualties. But President Bush regards such obvious conclusions as an outrage to the U. S. and an affront to Israel. Implicitly, he has warned King Hussein, 'Beware - mind your language. Don't you realize what you are saying, and who has given you the right to level such criticism. . . . ' Dreams sometimes have a few macabre interpretations. His dream of "peace" does carry an overall interpretation of doom for the future of Arab countries. But a macabre aspect of his 'dream' may materialize when a flimsy excuse may be sought to attack Eastern Jordan and thus open the way for the Israeli occupation of the Eastern part of the Jordan river as well. This may only be a conjecture on my part but there are several historical trends, mentioned earlier, which lend support to it. From the very beginning, and to this day, the Jews are continuously extending their territory. Their policy of expansion is not restricted only to multiplying their population numerically, but also includes territorial expansion to accommodate their numerical expansion. The dream of Israel which the Jews had visualised at its inception was to bring in all the Jews from various oppressed areas of the world into a free state to be called Israel. 229