[lbo-talk] Wallerstein: "What Can Israel Achieve?"

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 1 14:36:59 PDT 2006



>From: Ira Glazer <ira at yanua.com>
>
>http://fbc.binghamton.edu/commentr.htm
>
>Commentary No. 190, August 1, 2006
>
>... Israel's current military campaign is a direct parallel of Bush's
>invasion of Iraq. The Israeli generals are already noting that Hezbollah's
>military is far more formidable than anticipated, that U.S. allies in the
>region are already taking wide distance from the United States and Israel
>(note the Iraqi government's support of Lebanon and now that of the Saudi
>government), and soon will discover that the Israeli public's support is
>more fragile than expected. ...

Where does Wallerstein get that idea? Israelis seem to have that same lunatic, stay-the-course, Armageddon glint in their eye that their fundamentalist Xtian buddies in the US have.

Carl



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