Summary
Author of Chapter 2 of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, “How Israel Became the Watchdog State: US Imperialism and the Middle East” (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 84-92, lines 546-620).
Details
- The chapter argues US support for Israel is driven by the interests of US capital in the oil-rich Middle East, not primarily by the Israel lobby, and traces Israel’s watchdog role from a Haaretz proposal and French patronage in the 1950s through the 1967 war, the 1970 Jordan crisis, its global arms-supplier role, and the post-1991 peace process (lines 546-620).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Watchdog state, Imperialism, Elbit Systems