Bernard Lewis interviewed in German

Old but good: an interview with Bernard Lewis, the éminence grise of Near East studies, in the German daily Die Welt. If you know German, go read it now --- I'll try to post a summary later. Some highlights:

• Saddam's power did not rest in Arab or Muslim culture: Baathism was a Western import, inspired by German Nazism;
  
• Before the end of the 21st Century, Europe will be Eurabia
  
• Israel is a necessary "lightning rod" for Arab regimes: if it didn't exist they'd have to invent it, to deflect discontent by their populations about economies that can't even hold their own with Central Africa anymore;
  
• Europe can never be a credible "counter-superpower" to the USA: the latter's main competitors will be China, India, and possibly Russia after it pulls its act together;
  
• The true solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not more or less territory, but mutual recognition of their legitimacy, in fact not only in words --- and the rejection of terror as a political tool by the Palestinians;
  
• The average Iranian now is worse off in every respect than under the Shah;
  
• The battle against al-Qaeda will be long and difficult: radical Islamism has many allies in the West, both conscious and unconscious. The conscious include growing Muslim minorities and converts to Islam, and the type of malcontents that used to join Communist parties and --- after the collapse of Communism --- finds an outlet in Islam and its allied anti-Western movements.
  

Comments

[Larry]

Did you translate this or you copied it from the German English blogger? Mendelstriak (spelling?)...
Do you have a translation of the entire article?
Is Die Welt a conservative or right of center publication in Germany btw?

Larry

[Former Belgian]

I summarized off the original (my German is pretty decent). Die Welt is generally regarded as a conservative newspaper.

[Daniel]

Is there any way you could mail me the full text translation of the article? I have a class at the hebrew university I'd like to present the paper with and they do NOT speak german...
Thanks,
Daniel