The articles and editorials in this publication called for common Euro-Arab positions at every level - social, economic, and commercial - and were consequently biased against Israel. In Euroabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, Bat Ye'or takes both the term and its connotation one - huge - step further. Whereas preceding debates mostly dealt with the tipping scale of demographics in favor of Muslims as opposed to Europeans, or else with the vigor of Islamic civilization and religious fervor as compared with the complacency of post-Christian Europe, for Bat Ye'or the issue is no less than a total transformation of Europe's cultural identity in a predetermined, unidirectional process. Her book warns against "a new Eurabian culture with its own dogma, preachers, axioms and rules" (p. 36), a "new faith," and a "Euro-Arab human, economic and political symbiosis motivated by European greed and fear" (p. 147). In sum: "The new European civilization in the making can be called a 'civilization of dhimmitude'" (p. 10).
The core of Bat Ye'or's thesis is that the process of turning Europe into a nation oh "dhimmis" was executed by clandestine, meticulous planning on the part of high-level European and Arab leaders. According to the author, Eurabia was envisaged in 1973 through a system of informal alliances between, on the one hand, the nine countries of the European Community (EC) which, enlarged, became the European Union in 1922 and, on the other hand, the Mediterranean Arab countries. The alliances and agreements were elaborated at the top political level of each EC country with the representative of the European Commission, while Arab counterparts met with the Arab League's delegate. The field of Euro-Arab collaboration covered every domain: from economy and policy to immigration. This was essentially a political project for a total demographic and cultural symbiosis between Europe and the Arab world, according to which Israel would eventually dissolve and America would be isolated and challenged by an emerging Euro-Arab continent.
Eurabia's main undertaking is to denounce the EU's biased pro-Arab/Muslim/Palestinian policy, which in turn spawns the potentially politicidal delegitization of Israel's very existence, with its corollary of noxious antisemitism. Bat Ye'or is also determined to expose the problematic rising influence of Islamism and its concomitant cultural and physical menace to western civilization: terrorism and brutal disturbances on the one hand, and the tyranny of political correctness that takes the prohibition on "hurting the taboos of other cultures" to the extent of banning free speech, on the other. The author's studious compilation of texts is impressive, as is her painstaking analysis. However, the credibility and hence the efficacy of her work are undermined both by its inflamed polemical tone and by its exaggeration in order to create a theoretical model. Particularly self-defeating is the carrying of her thesis to phantasmal extremes, in the style of the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion - in this case the Protocols of Mecca and Brussels.
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