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No exit from the special relationship

I spent much of October writing a long piece for Middle East Policy, provoked in part by a college age daughter’s question about the utility  of Israel as a strategic ally. (She was wearying of arguing  the moral rights and wrongs of Zionists and Palestinians in the Holy Land.)  It can be found here . […]

I spent much of October writing a long piece for Middle East Policy, provoked in part by a college age daughter’s question about the utility  of Israel as a strategic ally. (She was wearying of arguing  the moral rights and wrongs of Zionists and Palestinians in the Holy Land.)  It can be found here .  For me the most illuminating part of the research was reading Jonathan Cook’s fine book on Israel and the Clash of Civilizations, which I think extends  our knowledge a lot about the run-up to the Iraq war. In any case, I come to fairly pessimistic conclusions, but I hope some of you check out the essay anyway.

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