Calling Sharon’s Bluff — What Herb Thinks

This is an important story for students of Bible prophecy. Javier Solana, the European Union’s High Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, is calling Israel’s bluff. Even secular observers are seeing it — something has changed. Read about it here. But, unfortunately, only a handful of end-time reporters will be able to give an accurate analysis.

One of these reporters who will be able is Constance Cumbey. Constance and I may not always agree about the meaning of all we see, but since 1999 we’ve been watching the same thing together. A new, global, center of power is rising in Europe before our eyes — one that is foretold in Scripture, and no one is paying much attention.

From the beginning of the year, Constance was telling me something big was going to happen in June. That’s because, in June the EU, the U.S. and NATO leaders were going to make major decisions regarding the shape of our post-Cold War new world order. Boy, was she right.

On the surface, the big issues in the June meetings were reported to be the U.S. gaining NATO help in Iraq and the EU having more say in the Middle East peace process. But, below the surface, there was something these leaders had on the table that was much larger — a shared security problem of crisis proportions. The Western leaders were discussing their next strategy in a mad race against time with international terrorists and weapons of mass destruction.

What most Americans don’t understand is that key to our Western leaders’ strategy in the war against terror is Javier Solana’s new security doctrine for the EU. This also happened in June. You see, it was at their June 2003 summit that Solana presented his 10-page security doctrine to the EU leaders. It was called “A Secure Europe in a Better World.”

As I wrote in my commentary and recorded in my book, the most amazing thing happened when Solana delivered his new security doctrine that hot day in Greece. At that time, the Western leaders’ post-Cold War world order lay fractured over the Iraqi war and nobody knew what to do about it. Suddenly, a man appeared among them with a solution.

Six days later, Solana and the other required EU officials went to Washington to sign an important new treaty. The treaty was an agreement between the U.S. and the EU to coordinate their war against terror and weapons of mass destruction. It was Solana’s idea. And, it was made possible by his new security doctrine.

Now, Solana has startled the diplomatic community by calling Israel’s bluff. He boldly told Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon the EU was going to be involved in the peace process, like it or not. This act has sent shock waves through the international order and hired thinkers are scrambling to figure out what’s going on.

And, what’s going on is that something else happened this June when the Western leaders met. Javier Solana was appointed the EU’s new, super foreign minister. And, although this powerful new post was said not to be active until the EU’s new constitution is ratified, inside observers knew better. And, now it’s out in the open — Solana has become the single voice for Europe.

We should have seen it coming. In fact, as I record in my book, when Javier Solana was appointed the first High Representative of the European Union, a man by the name of Antonio Missiroli warned that this type of event could happen. Missiroli wrote:

Javier Solana’s appointment as EU Council Secretary-General and High Representative for the CFSP is expected to foster coordination and consistency …. however [Solana’s appointment], may also create a dualism with the presidency of the Union and, more generally, tension within the new EU troika: in fact, the democratic element represented by the rotational presidency may be easily offset by the SG/HR (http://www.iss-eu.org).

The reason this is so interesting for us students of prophecy is that Missiroli’s warning appeared in Chaillot Paper #38 for the then Institute for Security Studies, a think tank for the 10-nation Western European Union military alliance. A month later, on November 1999, Solana also was appointed secretary-general of this same WEU alliance.

On July 1, 2004, only days after Javier Solana was appointed to the post of EU foreign minster this June, Solana announced to a gathering of representatives from 10 Asian nations that his new office was replacing the EU’s rotating presidency system. (Read what he said below.)

And now, on July 23, Solana stared the old war horse, Ariel Sharon, in the face and called his bluff.

Friends, there is a powerful new leader on the international stage.

His name is Javier Solana.

— Herb Peters
7/24/04

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Summary of remarks by
Javier SOLANA, EU High Representative for the CFSP,
at the EU-ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference

Jakarta, 1st July 2004

It is a pleasure to lead once again the EU delegation to the EU-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Post Ministerial Conference.

Since our last meeting a year ago, there have been three key developments towards a more effective European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy which will be of interest to our ASEAN partners.

The first is of course the enlargement of the European Union on 1 May this year. It is now my privilege to co-ordinate and represent the collective interests, objectives and efforts of twenty five European countries. The European Union is now more diverse, but also more vibrant and united than it has ever been before.

The second is the agreement by EU leaders at their summit two weeks ago to a new Constitution. Once ratified, this Constitution will introduce a number of important changes in the area of foreign policy, including the creation of a Foreign Minister to replace the rotating Presidency system. This should help to ensure greater continuity in our dealings with our key international partners, including ASEAN.

Finally, in December 2003, EU Member States endorsed my proposal for a European Security Strategy. For the first time, EU Member States have agreed on the key security threats which face us, and have given clear direction on the measures which are needed to combat them.

Both Europe and the wider world are threatened by the scourges of terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Terrorists use increasingly sophisticated techniques to operate with impunity across national borders. The spread of technology which would enable development of weapons of mass destruction has been slowed by the long-established international treaty regimes and export control measures, but has continued: current developments in both Iran and North Korea are of deep concern to the EU in this respect.

To combat these threats, EU Member States have agreed and are implementing wide-ranging and challenging plans of action. In both areas, the EU has made clear our need and determination to cooperate closely with our international partners. And this brings me to the other key theme of the Security Strategy: the need to strengthen international order, on the basis of effective multilateralism.

Working together, we can be far more effective in tackling the threats which face us. The United Nations is the fundamental framework for international relations, and we should do all in our power to support its further development. We also need to work together in international organisations such as the World Trade Organisation and the International Criminal Court. The Strategy also makes clear that the EU must work together with other regional organisations to pursue our common objectives, and ASEAN is one of the only such organisations to be mentioned specifically by name.

I want to conclude my opening comments by underlining the commonality of our approach in many areas, and the scope for us to do more together. This was the publicly expressed wish of EU Foreign Ministers following their discussion on South East Asia earlier this year, and I look forward to discussing in greater detail later in this meeting how best we might do this.

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