In Eurabia, Ye’or convincingly shows how the Western world has become vulnerable to the whims of the oil-producing nations of the Middle East. The Israeli defeat of the Arabs in the 1973 Yom Kippur War led to the temporary OPEC oil embargo imposed on the West (which had supported Israel), along with the inflated gasoline prices that still linger to this day. The Euro-Arab Dialogue (AD) began in 1973 because of the “necessity for a political entente between Europe and [the] Arab world as a basis for economic agreements” (63).

”Five main pillars” of Eurabian doctrine (a parody of the five pillars of Islam) are identified by Ye’or: the creation a Euro-Arab symbiosis motivated by European fear and greed, a common goal of economic development, fixation on a false model of medieval Andalusi coexistence (“the Andalusi myth”), hatred of Israel, and hostility directed towards America (147). The EAD’s fixation on the plight of the Palestinians and its image of the Israelis as victimizers, according to Ye’or, have entered the mainstream of Western consciousness, and has been fed in Europe by lingering anti-Semitism. Ye’or demonstrates the links between Nazi refugees and Pan-Arabism, and argues that gullible Western Christians since the 1970s have been lured into thinking of Palestinians solely as innocent victims of Jewish violence.

Her prognosis for the future is poor, as Ye’or sees European policies as “appeasement of terrorists” (251), witnessed by the replacement of Aznar by Zapatero in Spain after the 2004 Madrid bombings because of Aznar’s support of U.S. policies in Iraq. Ye’or argues that in the end, the very idea of coexistence between Islam and the Christian West will continue to be seen as defeat in the eyes of many Muslim traditionalists.