Summary
Author of Israel: The Hijack State — America’s Watchdog in the Middle East, originally published as a pamphlet by the Socialist Workers Party in July 1986 and subsequently published as a book by Bookmarks; copyright 1986 John Rose (Israel: The Hijack State — America’s Watchdog in the Middle East, lines 1-21).
Details
- Rose’s Acknowledgements thank Alex Callinicos, Tony Cliff, Pete Green, Chris Harman, Pete Marsden, Phil Marshall, Maryam Poya, Sabby Sagall, Mike Simons and Andy Strouthous, and record that several authors are exhaustively quoted throughout the pamphlet, mostly Jewish anti-Zionists: Abram Leon, Nathan Weinstock, Lenni Brenner and Noam Chomsky (lines 71-79).
- Contemporary information from Israel’s Hebrew press is given in the pamphlet from selected English translations in the Israeli Mirror, published fortnightly in London (lines 75-79).
- The pamphlet’s argument, in the part read, is that Israel is the main American surrogate in the Middle East, a military watchdog for Western control of Middle East oil, founded on the expulsion of three-quarters of a million Palestinians and practising state terror on a monumental scale in Lebanon in 1982 (lines 101-145, lines 547-644).
Related pages
Israel: The Hijack State — America’s Watchdog in the Middle East, Watchdog state, Imperialism, Noam Chomsky, Lenni Brenner