The Israel-Palestine Conflict Noam Chomsky interviewed by Hub Radio The University of the West of England, April 23, 2008
https://chomsky.info/20080423/ RH: Why does the US support Israel? NC: Well there is a historical record. Up until 1967, US support for Israel was fairly tepid, in fact there was a mixed story. So for example in 1956 Eisenhower forced Israel to leave the Sinai after its conquest, along with France and England, and there were many other cases of some conflict, some support. In 1967 it all changed radically. Israel performed a huge service to the United States, it destroyed Nasser who was the symbol and the leader of independent, secular Arab nationalism[…] Israel was regarded at the time as what the Nixon administration called ‘one of the cops on the beat’, controlling the Middle East[… ]The Middle East was controlled for the US by a set of peripheral non-Arab states at that time, Iran under the Shah, Israel, Turkey, all of which had a loose informal alliance. They were the cops on the beat, the police headquarters was in Washington, and there was a branch office in London, that’s basically the way the system was controlled. When the Shah collapsed in 1979, Israel’s role became even more important and it was also by then providing subsidiary services to the US, helping the US evade the sanctions against South Africa, supporting terrorist states and terrorist groups in Central America when the Reagan administration was blocked by Congressional actions. It simply became a very valuable client state and surrogate. By now it’s far and away the major military force in the region. Its air and armoured forces are larger and technologically more advanced than any NATO power apart from the United Kingdom. It’s a major financial centre, it’s a high tech centre, closely linked with US high-tech industry, both of which are pretty militarised, with lots of investment both ways. On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 1:44 PM Mark Baugher via groups.io <mark= mbaugher....@groups.io> wrote: > > > > On Apr 14, 2024, at 9:15 AM, Dennis Brasky via groups.io <dmozart1756= > gmail....@groups.io> wrote: > > > > As Nixon (may he rot in hell) put it - "Israel is the US cop in the > Middle East." > > That's saying the quiet part out loud. Do you have a reference for that > quote, Dennis? > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29907): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29907 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105515975/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
