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Diversion
From: Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East
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The conclusion Diversion reflects on how at the end of World War II, US officials celebrated the Middle East as a ‘stupendous source of strategic power’ and an immense ‘material prize.’ Can we imagine investor-dominated Washington not pursuing a policy of imperial control of the region? It is not Israel that has made the Middle East a region of unremitting war; it is the mutual hostility of US investor interests and those of local forces of independence that have turned the region into a zone of unceasing conflict. These two forces are fighting over who will benefit from West Asia’s petroleum resources—the local population, or investors in New York.