Rethinking Middle East Security by Patrick Seale

The first years of this 21st century have seen a systematic assault on Arab sovereignty and independence. The assault has been direct, physical, and neo-colonial, inviting comparison with the restructuring of the region and the imposition of western Mandates after the First World War . . . Today, they have been replaced by a new imperial partnership of the United States and Israel, equally intent to take control of the Arabs and their resources.