SPAIN AND THE PEACE PROCESS

SPAIN #11 IN THE EU

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

Spain and the Peace ProcessMohamed Ashab Al-Hayat - 29/10/06/

As it did when it hosted the Madrid Conference for peace in the Middle East after the second Gulf war, Madrid is seeking to extract a new peace initiative from the Alicante meeting, which brings together European and Arab countries, in addition to Turkey, in an attempt to revive the idea of peace.Should this initiative take up a European character that manages to secure Arab support, it may be the perfect opportunity to replace some pessimism with optimism, considering the fact that Spain is more historically suited to relate to the Arab mentality, in addition to its geographical proximity to the Arab World. This places it in a position that enables it to invest such advantages to morally and politically test the readiness of the sides involved in the crisis to return to the peace negotiations.

It is also possible that, this time, the Americans will start to realize that Spain's Prime Minister Luis Zapatero was more aware of the perils that awaited his troops in Iraq if he did not decide to pull them out at the right time, because, after all, the same situation seems to apply to the sentiments of the US voters at the polls.When Spain renounced the US cloak thrown upon it by former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, who went too far with his alliance with Washington, it became clear that Madrid's direction was going to be in line with the European perspective, more closely resembling that of France and Germany, rather than Britain and the US.

Most likely, the subtle manner of some of the aspects of the international consensus is trying to squeeze through a crack in the wall. It may, at first glance, appear confused, immature, or influenced by tendencies to return to the center of attention. However, it is unlikely to take shape at the throne of the world's leading power. For erroneous policies are their own natural and worse enemy, rendering extorting an admission of wrongdoing unnecessary.The world that used to say, No to the war in Iraq and Lebanon has never ceased to repeat the same call with different voices that are even emerging from within the US itself today. And what the US
used to refuse to hear on the dangers of renewed violence, extremism, and hatred, toward which it dedicated its military machine under the slogan of a never-ending war on terror, has now become a solid reality, tangible through the cascading outcomes that exacerbate an indiscriminate slaughter that mounts to a full fledged counter-ideology in its own right.

Nothing is more dangerous than ignoring the historical facts on the ground, and those who have drawn borders from the comfort of their air-conditioned offices during certain periods of history were only sowing minefields, waiting to blow up one generation after another. Therefore, it has become unacceptable to repeat the very same mistakes by demarking nations.Never, since the eruption of the Middle East crisis, has acceptance of the situation on the ground prevailed on the Arab side, as well as the numerous peace initiatives, the Road Map and the related agreements.
Nevertheless, capitalizing on this shift never reached the appropriate degree of appreciation, and when the Americans, in the midst of their ecstasy with their victory in Iraq, proclaimed their inclination to create two States capable of coexistence and neighborly relations, they gave the Israelis opposed to this option the keys to manage the file, and by that they became both the judge and the executioner.Hence, the desire to take back the Israeli-Arab file to square one might be the advantage of the exploratory Spanish initiative, which will most probably attempt to present the Europeans with a foothold to try their luck in the involvement. And the timing of the initiative with the major crisis is no coincidence. Whether or not it receives a US nod or full support, it will most importantly not be a reprint of US editions that proved a failure.

The European themselves entrusted the Spanish with this initiative, and should it run into US jeers of condemnations, these would not be of more impact on the Spanish-American relations than Madrid's decision to pull its forces out of Iraq.If, however, it turned into an acceptable political process, this initiative suggests a possible European comeback to the scene of events, in spite of the Americans, who dragged themselves and the nations of the region into chaos dominated by the din of cannons, deafening the voice of reason.