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August 8, 2006

We can make some sense of what is going in the Middle east. The symmetry of Israeli and American policy has been one of the more noteworthy aspects of the latest Lebanon war--so much so that we can talk in terms of Anglo-Israeli.

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Clay Bennett

We can add the muscular neo-con element---this advocated a "clean break" from the 1990s Oslo peace process, advocating that Israel pursue a combination of roll-back, destabilization and containment in the region, including striking at Syria and removing Saddam Hussein from power. This conception of regime change has an affinity with the old Likud policies of an expansionist Israel and it presents Israel's campaign against Hezbollah as part of the wider global war on terrorism. So Israel's harsh bombing campaign in Lebanon forseveral weeks is part of an ambitious scheme for regional transformation.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 4:22 PM | | Comments (0)
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