West policies source of Europe migrant crisis: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Rodney Shakespeare, a political commentator from London, to get his view on the issue of migrant crisis in the European countries.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: How do you feel about this entire migrant crisis to begin with many of the root causes as well as of course the reaction by the EU?

Shakespeare: The problem is the root causes, you said in your report, that the migrants who are coming from North Africa, while indeed that is broadly the case. But the sources of the migrants are much wider than that and they include the Middle East where is Zionist-Western policy to smash up the states and make living conditions utterly intolerable. In fact, at this very moment the West is still supporting ISIS (ISIL) and in its deprivations and the atrocities, which have been committed all the time.  And in Iraq and Syria soon there will be thousands of people coming probably from Yemen. We’ve smashed up Libya and then on top of that our policies are not to create living conditions of democracy and a reasonable standard of living for local people in Africa. Their intent is to control the things so we can rip off their resources and we have no genuine intent ever to make living conditions such that people do not want to leave their own countries. They only leave because of severe economic pressure or because of being threatened by violence some way or another. The shame of all this is that Western nations have no intent to stop sources of the problems which leads to people being forced to leave their own homelands.

Press TV: Mr. Shakespeare, indeed there is a popular impression about the Western countries that they are welcoming countries that they welcome and help those who are escaping persecution in their own countries. Do you think that is the case now?

Shakespeare: There is no welcome coming now from Europe and the underlying reason there is an underlying economic crisis in Europe on any of the figures. There are a total of 13 percent in Europe unemployment, double that for young people, and in certain areas of Europe, for Spain, young people unemployed to reach about 65 to 70 percent and which is the economic failure within Europe, which links to resentments against anybody coming in from the outside. So it’s partly the economic failure in Europe but behind that the one which everyone shuts their eyes to is Western foreign policy, particularly that foreign policy which is designed to smash up every single country in the Middle East largely for the benefit only of Israel. And that’s the bigger source of the migrants and the refugees wanting to leave to save their lives.

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