comment on Zionism discussion

Seth Ackerman sackerman at FAIR.org
Thu Jul 19 13:27:30 PDT 2001


Brad DeLong wrote:


> And what good for the United States--speaking as a flinty-eyed State
> Department realist--is "condominium" over the western Middle East?
> Giving both Egypt and Israel an excuse to avoid war in order to
> receive aid is a good thing from the idealist perspective (to which I
> belong). But the U.S.'s strategic interests are in the eastern Middle
> East.
. If you want to ensure the existence and safety of pliant regimes in the oil-rich states of the eastern Middle East you can't have a mighty Arab state in the western Middle East run by people who oppose all your goals and plans for the region. Nasser gave Iran, Iraq and the Gulf states a lot of headaches in his day......

Seth



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