New Statesman - Poles apart

Jonathan Cook sends us notice from Nazareth (yeah, that Nazareth) of how his book fares in a New Scotsman book review by Neil Perry who writes of Cook's latest: "... It was Zionist determination to make the Middle East safe for the Jewish state, he argues, that did much to precipitate the Iraq War and the chaos and sectarian conflict that followed. He claims that, far from being unintended consequences of US policy, civil war and partition were seen by the pro-Israel neoconservatives who have dominated the White House under President George W Bush as serving both US and Israeli interests. ..." New Statesman - Poles apart