The American administration has given Steven Emerson and Dore Gold the authority to identify terrorists and their supporters in Arab countries. There could never have been any doubt that by doing so it will worsen relations between the United States and the Arab and Islamic world. Both of these men are Jewish fanatics who do nothing to hide either their enmity toward Muslims or their role in the anti-Islam smear campaign. Gold’s book, “Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terror”, is a travesty of scholarship, the real intention of which is to persuade the West that Israel has nothing to do with Islamist anger.

Emerson is the type of a man who coolly tells people who know nothing about Islam that “Muslims wear a red head cover because they have a bloody mentality.” He said this to the American media when he produced a documentary on “Jihad in America,” which was transmitted and financed by a cultural station supported by the US government and funded by donations, not advertising.

Emerson’s credibility was questioned soon after the Oklahoma bombing, as he appeared on television to say that Muslims were behind it. He was giving details of the crime at a time when the investigations were in the initial stages. The whole hue and cry against Muslims suddenly stopped, however, when it was announced that an American fanatic had been responsible.

With the furor over the censorship of 28 pages from a congressional report on the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Emerson is back in the limelight again — as an expert on terrorism.

He was previously behind some of the information which the US Treasury Department used to prepare a list of 39 individuals and groups who it is alleged are linked to Osama Bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda organization. The list was not based on strict criteria, unlike the previous list which was limited to those individuals and organizations actually linked with Al-Qaeda — including those who appeared with Bin Laden or those who made statements or fatwas or abducted Americans or carried out terrorist operations against US interests. No, the new list is based on suspicions, a method endorsed and perfected by Emerson.

He is an expert on joining the dots and filling the gaps by way of his analytical “expertise.” Consequently, the new list included names who have no connection whatsoever with Bin Laden. One example is Yassin Abdullah Al-Qadi, a prominent businessman in Jeddah, who is well-known among business circles within and outside the Kingdom.

Emerson and his Zionist partner in crime Gold are out to get Saudi Arabia because the Kingdom is a staunch supporter of the Palestinians and they are Islamaphobes.

It is as simple as that.