Israel’s economic occupation of Iraq

The most inter­est­ing part of the “Five years on the Amer­i­can occu­pa­tion of Iraq: Real­ity and Per­spec­tives” sem­i­nar held in Cairo Polit­i­cal and Eco­nomic Uni­ver­sity was a lec­ture by  Egypt­ian Dr. Tarek Fahmy, strat­egy expert in the for Mid­dle East Stud­ies Centre:

The inten­sive Israeli pres­ence in Iraq is not reported by the Arab media, the Israelis are invest­ing in recon­struc­tion com­pa­nies of the so called “new Iraq” openly and not in the back­ground, accord­ing Amer­i­can sources there are about 210 Israeli com­pa­nies are func­tion­ing in Iraq recently.

Three sce­nar­ios for the future relation

Dr. Fahmy said that there three sce­nar­ios for the future rela­tions between Israel and Iraq:

First: The full diplo­matic rela­tions, despite cur­rent Iraqi Pres­i­dent Jalal Tal­a­bani, insis­tence on there will be no rela­tion with Israel.

Sec­ond: A tri­an­gu­lar rela­tions (the United States — Israel — Iraq), prob­a­bly Jor­dan will also involves in this relation.

Third: Post­pon­ing the diplo­matic rela­tions between the two sides and the for­ma­tion of infor­mal rela­tions at all levels.

Dr. Fahmy sup­ports the third scenario.