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

[Carl Remick]

>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