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Journalist Jonathan prepare dinner explores Israel's key function in persuading the Bush management to invade Iraq, as a part of a plan to remake the center East, and their joint decision to isolate Iran and forestall it from buying nuclear guns that will rival Israel's own.
This concise and obviously argued booklet makes the case that Israel's wish to be the only real nearby strength within the heart East well chimes with Bush's goals within the "war on terror". interpreting a number of similar matters, from the ethnic detoxification of Palestinians to the function of huge Oil and the demonization of the Arab global, prepare dinner argues that the present chaos within the heart East is the target of the Bush administration---a coverage that's both necessary to Israel.
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106 The main consequences of the neocon plan would be the erosion of Saudi Arabia’s financial muscle and ability to finance extreme Islamic groups, and the undermining of the whole oil-based economy of the Middle East, both the enormous profits of the oil-producing countries and the livelihoods of the guest workers from neighbouring Arab states whose families depended on their remittances. We shall return to the significance of this White House dispute in Chapter 4, but it is worth noting here that the biggest beneficiary of the neocons’ plan to topple the Iraqi regime and at the same time destroy the Middle East’s oil cartel was Israel, which would not only lose a potential military challenger in Iraq but also a significant rival in the shape of Saudi Arabia for influence in Washington and with the US oil lobby.
106 The main consequences of the neocon plan would be the erosion of Saudi Arabia’s financial muscle and ability to finance extreme Islamic groups, and the undermining of the whole oil-based economy of the Middle East, both the enormous profits of the oil-producing countries and the livelihoods of the guest workers from neighbouring Arab states whose families depended on their remittances. We shall return to the significance of this White House dispute in Chapter 4, but it is worth noting here that the biggest beneficiary of the neocons’ plan to topple the Iraqi regime and at the same time destroy the Middle East’s oil cartel was Israel, which would not only lose a potential military challenger in Iraq but also a significant rival in the shape of Saudi Arabia for influence in Washington and with the US oil lobby.
58 These doctrines variously guided US responses to the events that unfolded after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. 59 A savage eight-year war beginning in 1980 exhausted the two countries, costing at least half a million lives and damaging both countries’ oil production and economic infrastructure. In parallel, the US also tried to develop contacts with the Iranian army in the hope of engineering a military coup to bring down the Shia clerics running the country. 60 As well as receiving US aid, Iraq was supported by other Arab regimes, including Saudi Arabia and Jordan, which regarded it as representing the Sunnidominated Arab world against the threat posed by the non-Arab Shia regime of Iran.