How Occupation has corrupted Israel’s Soul - Israel/Terrorism
Antony Lowenstein; 30/3/08
Israel and the Clash of Civilisations; Jonathan Cook; Pluto Press
The September 11 attacks on New York and Washington caused the Western media and political elite to seriously examine their behaviour in the Middle East. Most concluded that maintaining client states was the only viable way forward; the desperate need for oil supplies supplanted most other considerations. The US-led invasion of Iraq was a radical form of shock treatment designed to unseat a once friendly Washington-friendly dictator. The nationalist insurgency crushed those plans, leaving the world’s sole super-power battling a relatively small number of fighters whose sole goal was the removal of an unforgiving occupation. One country that has received relatively little scrutiny in the years since September 11 has been Israel. The Jewish state has the most powerful military in the region, with an estimated 200 nuclear warheads, and an arsenal of cluster bombs that it used against civilians in Lebanon in the final days of its botched 2006 campaign against Hizbollah.
See: http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2008/03/30/how-occupation-has-corrupted-israels-soul/