Ehud Ya’ari

The ambitions of Iraq’s despotic president, Saddam Hussein, are causing conflict in the Middle East, Ehud Ya’ari maintains in the following viewpoint. He contends that Israel will consider Iraq an enemy as long as its leader aggressively pursues territory and attempts to amass chemical, biological, and atomic weapons. The international community must continue imposing sanctions against Iraq to help contain Saddam and to allow the Arab-Israeli peace process to continue, he concludes.Ya’ari is a journalist for Israeli television.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. According to Ya’ari, what alternative course of action could Iraq have taken during the Gulf War of 1991?
2. In what way have Saddam Hussein’s ambitions proved to be beneficial to the Arab-Israeli peace process, in the author&rsquo...