West itself to blame for refugee crisis: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Glenn, an author and journalist, about the refugee crisis facing the European Union (EU).

An approximate transcription of the interview is provided below.

Press TV: Essentially, a lot of people are criticizing the manner in which the European Union specifically and some countries within it are conducting their, let’s say, refugee policies. Yet, there seems not to be, let’s say, a united front when it comes to dealing with the crisis and addressing and redressing the core issues. But other than that, I want to ask whether or not you believe as a person that there is a chance and there is this political will from within the EU to create some sort of a safe passage route for the refugees.

Glenn: Well, whether there is this intention or this desire to do this or not is immaterial to the fact that the refugee crisis problem could be solved overnight if the West would simply take its nose out of the Middle East, out of the business of arming and training and funding these terrorists that have destroyed Syria and Iraq, to say nothing of the deliberate destruction in Iraq and Libya that was done first-hand by the same European countries working of course alongside the United States, who invaded these countries militarily, destroyed them, made them uninhabitable and now are paying the price for this and the fact that they have desperate people who are fleeing these uninhabitable countries now and going to the only place where there seems to be any safety, which is across the Mediterranean and into Europe.

Press TV: Well, clearly a lot of people would subscribe to your notion of the fact that there’s been a grave mistake as well as huge blunder on the part of the Europeans as well as the West as a whole, including the US in dealing with the whole issue, and let’s say not addressing the core issues that are the conflicts within the region.

But now that we do have this on our hand, what can be done in terms of an appropriate and a commensurate policy response?

Glenn: That’s well of course, as I said, the first thing that needs to be done, is that the West needs to get out of the Middle East and to quit making these countries uninhabitable, which is the cause of the refugee crisis to begin with.

And number two, the West does owe these people certain amount of reparations for having turned their lives into this cauldron of misery and suffering. And so, as far as a cohesive plan… let’s not entertain the notion for a moment that if these were refugees from Europe that were seeking some place because their countries had been destroyed by war, that there would be a complete reversal of opinion as to how this is supposed to be taking care of.

If those were Europeans that were fleeing the Middle East, we can rest assured that the Europeans would take whatever steps necessary in order to bring these people safely back to Europe.

So, I think that it underscores obviously the hypocrisy of the whole thing, but the other thing that we have to keep in mind is that this is part of the design. These refugees fleeing these countries is in effect gasoline that is being thrown on this already-out-of-control fire known as the clash of civilizations.

This is basically 9/11 Part 2, in order to enrage the white Western world against Israel’s enemies by essentially bringing these two incompatible elements together in a forced situation. This causes political turmoil, it causes social turmoil. And then, when these governments come forward and they offer us the solution to this problem, more military involvement in the Middle East, in order to deal with Daesh or whatever it is that they want to use as the excuse, then the people in Europe are more prepared now to accept something like that.

And so, the refugee crisis and all of the problems that are associated with Europe… this is deliberate. They need this in order to keep this hundred-year war against Islam, as Benjamin Netanyahu once described it, they need this in order to keep it burning bright.

Press TV: So, what I infer from your remarks [is] that apart from the core issues that haven’t been duly, let’s say, treated and understood and reacted upon, there is a great deal of racism involved as well here.

Glenn: Well, I don’t know about the racism. I think that, what it is is that you have basically two diverse elements of people who are being forced together in an unnatural situation.

Let’s face it, I mean the European people themselves… they’re paying a heavy price for this as well. But at the end of the day, we have to keep in mind that if they had not allowed their governments to fall into the hands of organized Zionist interests that have used their militaries and their political process in order to cause this havoc in the Middle East, that they wouldn’t be dealing with the refugee crisis right now that they are dealing with.

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