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Dear list members, I have been a bit worried by this recent conversation for two reasons. First, while recognising that the "sanctions on Iraq" heading that should guide our conversations is a flexible one, discussions of the role of Zionism or Israel in recent world history seem to me to fall outside it. Second, there have been some very pointed remarks; these certainly reflect deeply seated feelings which I would not wish to deny. At the same time, aiming them at other list members - who are here because they share a common concern about the humanitarian consequences of sanctions on Iraqi civilians - may be, I think, unhelpful. Having suggested that we have strayed off of our topic core, I did want to offer a partial response to John's recent question: > Why has the US-Israeli partnership proved so enduring throughout the past > fifty years of expansionist wars, uprisings and massacres? My understanding is that the Israeli-US alliance only began to solidify around 1967. Prior to that, Israel's main foreign supporters had been European and the Soviet Union. In the Suez crisis in 1956, for example, the US opposed the Israeli-French-British attack on Egypt. Colin Rowat work | Room 406, Department of Economics | The University of Birmingham | Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK | web.bham.ac.uk/c.rowat | (+44/0) 121 414 3754 | (+44/0) 121 414 7377 (fax) | c.rowat@bham.ac.uk personal | (+44/0) 7768 056 984 (mobile) | (+44/0) 7092 378 517 (fax) | (707) 221 3672 (US fax) | c.rowat@espero.org.uk _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk