Arab Leverage, Israel and Western Interests

Why? Because Israel represents to them a power, the power of the strongmen.

And because the Arabs still cannot make use of the sources of power they possess.

So that those people will fear them and respect them.

If he were the prime minister of Britain, if he were the prime minister of England.

Be certain that if Israel were to curtail England's interests in the Arab world, those interests would be affected.

They wouldn't dare to utter such words.

But we still do not use our sources of power properly.

And we must struggle and fight in every inch of the Arab nation and the Arab homeland.

So that these sources, the sources of power, become real.

And so that those people respect us, take us into account, and so that they know

that whoever backs Israel will have his interests throughout the Arab world, from the Gulf to the ocean, affected.

This is something we say clearly: the Arab struggle must be put into practice, firmly established, and made a tangible reality.

The Arab struggle, which is the struggle of Arab youth in every Arab country.

Why are the Syrian Arab Nationalists afraid of Israel because of the elections?

They cozy up to Israel — an Israeli will tell you, "the Jewish vote in the elections."

So that cozying up is out of fear.

This goes back to 1948; they say Zionism pressured Truman.

And Zionists pressured the State Department, and there were threats.

And pressure was put on the British, and so on.

So those groups exert pressure.

Okay, we have leverage here regarding their interests; we can apply pressure.

If it's only the voters' interests that influence them,

we have interests in that.