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One of the most cogent understandings of the modern Middle East I have read. It is superb, because the author himself is a unique witness who blows away the media debris and presents both a j'accuse of those who would destroy the lives of whole societies in their pursuit of power and myth, and a warning to the rest of us to speak up and act. (John Pilger, author of Freedom Next Time (2006) and The New Rulers of the World (2003) )
A compelling account of the recent wars for Middle East oil, untangling a complex web of interests shared by the neocons, Israel and the Bush White House. Cook's timely book raises disturbing questions about where Israel and the US hope to push the region next. (David Hirst, author of The Gun and the Olive Branch (2003) )
American-Israeli relations have intrigued, occupied and preoccupied two generations of scholars and of politicians around the world. Which of the two is the contemporary Rome and which is the belligerent Sparta in the Middle East? Jonathan Cook's book undeniably enriches and elevates the debate. (Afif Safieh, Palestinian Ambassador in Washington )
In this well-researched and very readable book, Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook traces the developments of the last few decades that have led to the dangerous and deplorable state of affairs in the Middle East today. (Sally Bland, Jordan Times )
A compelling account of the recent wars for Middle East oil, untangling a complex web of interests shared by the neocons, Israel and the Bush White House. Cook's timely book raises disturbing questions about where Israel and the US hope to push the region next. (David Hirst, author of The Gun and the Olive Branch (2003) )
American-Israeli relations have intrigued, occupied and preoccupied two generations of scholars and of politicians around the world. Which of the two is the contemporary Rome and which is the belligerent Sparta in the Middle East? Jonathan Cook's book undeniably enriches and elevates the debate. (Afif Safieh, Palestinian Ambassador in Washington )
In this well-researched and very readable book, Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook traces the developments of the last few decades that have led to the dangerous and deplorable state of affairs in the Middle East today. (Sally Bland, Jordan Times )
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Journalist Jonathan Cook explores Israel’s key role in persuading the Bush administration to invade Iraq, as part of a plan to remake the Middle East, and their joint determination to isolate Iran and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons that might rival Israel’s own.
This concise and clearly argued book makes the case that Israel's desire to be the sole regional power in the Middle East neatly chimed with Bush’s objectives in the “war on terror”.
Examining a host of related issues, from the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to the role of Big Oil and the demonisation of the Arab world, Cook argues that the current chaos in the Middle East is the objective of the Bush administration – a policy that is equally beneficial to Israel.
This concise and clearly argued book makes the case that Israel's desire to be the sole regional power in the Middle East neatly chimed with Bush’s objectives in the “war on terror”.
Examining a host of related issues, from the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to the role of Big Oil and the demonisation of the Arab world, Cook argues that the current chaos in the Middle East is the objective of the Bush administration – a policy that is equally beneficial to Israel.
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If this type of material was better available in the western education systems, the neocons and their allies would have a harder time using their sound bites like `axis of evil' and `weapons of mass destruction' to rally the troops.
All too often, well meaning, poorly educated and ill-informed patriots rally to the flag to fight wars in places they couldn't even find on a map just a few weeks before.
Only after countless thousands are killed or maimed, and millions displaced, do they ask themselves `what the hell am I doing here anyway'? All too late the neocon's intentions are exposed and the returning patriots receive less than a hero's welcome.
During the 1990's the neocons would have us believe that Iranian woman were getting their faces slashed by razors for wearing lipstick in public places. I was in Tehran during the 90's and noted the high percentage of woman wearing lipstick. In fact it was quiet pleasant to take an evening stroll around the city parks and watch the families chatting, having an Ice cream and generally enjoying themselves. Just a decade earlier America had backed `good old boy' Saddam Hussein to murder hundreds of thousands of Iranians in a proxy war that included the use of chemical weapons.
More recently during the Medicare debates, one neocon advised that `Americans didn't need a medical care system like Britain or North Korea'. Exactly who was the target audience here? Is it possible to find any Americans that would believe the upmarket `cradle to grave' medical systems available in Britain (and most Western countries) are even vaguely similar to those in North Korea? These neocons must be fishing for dummies
All too often, well meaning, poorly educated and ill-informed patriots rally to the flag to fight wars in places they couldn't even find on a map just a few weeks before.
Only after countless thousands are killed or maimed, and millions displaced, do they ask themselves `what the hell am I doing here anyway'? All too late the neocon's intentions are exposed and the returning patriots receive less than a hero's welcome.
During the 1990's the neocons would have us believe that Iranian woman were getting their faces slashed by razors for wearing lipstick in public places. I was in Tehran during the 90's and noted the high percentage of woman wearing lipstick. In fact it was quiet pleasant to take an evening stroll around the city parks and watch the families chatting, having an Ice cream and generally enjoying themselves. Just a decade earlier America had backed `good old boy' Saddam Hussein to murder hundreds of thousands of Iranians in a proxy war that included the use of chemical weapons.
More recently during the Medicare debates, one neocon advised that `Americans didn't need a medical care system like Britain or North Korea'. Exactly who was the target audience here? Is it possible to find any Americans that would believe the upmarket `cradle to grave' medical systems available in Britain (and most Western countries) are even vaguely similar to those in North Korea? These neocons must be fishing for dummies
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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This book examines Israel's strategic goals in the Middle East. The author argues that traditionally, both America and Israel prefered Arab states to be run by strongmen. The key strategic goal was to keep Arab countries stable. The author argues that after 9/11, this changed. Israeli and American hawks changed strategy, and decided that it was time to reverse the policy. Far from promoting stability, the aim should now be to promote instability in Arab countries. This would weaken Arab rivals to Israel's dominance of the region, and empower minority client groups in Arab nations, with which Israel and the US could form alliances of convenience.
Indeed, the author argues that the rioting, looting and civil war post-Iraq invasion were not the unexpected consequence of a well meaning invasion. They were, contends the author, part of the plan to keep Iraq weak and divided, and thus easier to exploit for its oil and fresh water. Furthermore, it had been an Israeli idea stretching back to the 1980s to encourage Iraq to become de facto a state divided into three (Sunni, Shia and Kurd). The author warns that Iran is next on the hitlist for this "spread instability" strategy, particularly because its posession of nuclear weapons could throw this strategy on its head.
The book is deeply provocative, and anyone interested in the war on terror, Iraq or current affairs generally will gain from this book.
Indeed, the author argues that the rioting, looting and civil war post-Iraq invasion were not the unexpected consequence of a well meaning invasion. They were, contends the author, part of the plan to keep Iraq weak and divided, and thus easier to exploit for its oil and fresh water. Furthermore, it had been an Israeli idea stretching back to the 1980s to encourage Iraq to become de facto a state divided into three (Sunni, Shia and Kurd). The author warns that Iran is next on the hitlist for this "spread instability" strategy, particularly because its posession of nuclear weapons could throw this strategy on its head.
The book is deeply provocative, and anyone interested in the war on terror, Iraq or current affairs generally will gain from this book.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Jonathan Cook has emerged over the last few years as one of the best writers on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. This, his second book, reflects on the part that the Israeli State has played in the formulation of United States policy on Iraq in particular, and the larger Middle East in general (including Iran).
In a tightly written 150 pages, Cook gathers evidence from a wide variety of sources including the American and Israeli Governments as well as a variety of knowledgeable commentators. The most interesting source is the Israeli press, in particular the Hebrew press. It is a little known fact that the Hebrew editions of newspapers in Israel deal with Israeli foreign policy in a far franker way than the English editions of the same papers. This provides fertile ground for Cooks investigations into Israeli foreign policy and its relations with the United States, in particular the recently deceased Neo-Con administration of George W Bush.
It is evident that the Israeli state is quite happy to see its neighbouring Arab states fragmented along ethnic and religious lines, this was the policy that drove its invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the attack on Hizbollah in 2006. Voices within the foreign policy establishment of Israel and the U.S. hoped that the other communities within Lebanon would turn on the Shiite Hizbollah and blame them for the destruction that the Israelis rained on that country.
The debacle in Iraq is explicable in these terms, the U.S. support for militias on a communal basis, the still possible and probable split of Iraq into three parts: Sunni, Shiite and Kurd. The Israelis were extremely supportive of that invasion and Cook documents their involvement with policy formation in occupied Iraq. It also appears that the Israelis have been supporting and courting Kurdish forces in northern Iraq as well as eyeing the Kurdish minority (20% of population) in Syria.
Other issues covered by the book include relations between the Israeli Government and the neo-cons of the Bush administration, the excessive part played by the Military in Israeli "democracy" and how the long running occupation of Palestinian Territories has been affected by, and effected, recent developments. The situation regarding Iran, again in the news with regard to the Nuclear question, is also covered at some length. Given the amount of information the book contains it is somewhat surprising to consider the shortness of Cooks book.
This book exposes trends and thinking in the United States and Israel with regard to the States in the Middle East, and as such is a valuable, readable account that fills in many of the gaps in recent history and press reporting on these issues. Well recommended, as are his other two books Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State and Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair.
In a tightly written 150 pages, Cook gathers evidence from a wide variety of sources including the American and Israeli Governments as well as a variety of knowledgeable commentators. The most interesting source is the Israeli press, in particular the Hebrew press. It is a little known fact that the Hebrew editions of newspapers in Israel deal with Israeli foreign policy in a far franker way than the English editions of the same papers. This provides fertile ground for Cooks investigations into Israeli foreign policy and its relations with the United States, in particular the recently deceased Neo-Con administration of George W Bush.
It is evident that the Israeli state is quite happy to see its neighbouring Arab states fragmented along ethnic and religious lines, this was the policy that drove its invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the attack on Hizbollah in 2006. Voices within the foreign policy establishment of Israel and the U.S. hoped that the other communities within Lebanon would turn on the Shiite Hizbollah and blame them for the destruction that the Israelis rained on that country.
The debacle in Iraq is explicable in these terms, the U.S. support for militias on a communal basis, the still possible and probable split of Iraq into three parts: Sunni, Shiite and Kurd. The Israelis were extremely supportive of that invasion and Cook documents their involvement with policy formation in occupied Iraq. It also appears that the Israelis have been supporting and courting Kurdish forces in northern Iraq as well as eyeing the Kurdish minority (20% of population) in Syria.
Other issues covered by the book include relations between the Israeli Government and the neo-cons of the Bush administration, the excessive part played by the Military in Israeli "democracy" and how the long running occupation of Palestinian Territories has been affected by, and effected, recent developments. The situation regarding Iran, again in the news with regard to the Nuclear question, is also covered at some length. Given the amount of information the book contains it is somewhat surprising to consider the shortness of Cooks book.
This book exposes trends and thinking in the United States and Israel with regard to the States in the Middle East, and as such is a valuable, readable account that fills in many of the gaps in recent history and press reporting on these issues. Well recommended, as are his other two books Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State and Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair.
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Interesting study of Israel's plan for dominating the Middle East
Jonathan Cook, a journalist, has written an interesting book. Its strength lies in its shrewd analysis of the Zionist state's schemes to dominate the Middle East. Read more
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This book takes up where the infamous protocols left off, claiming that at the heart of the 'clash of civilizations' lies the Jews, Israel, the neo-cons and the Israel lobby. Read more
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