Yoshie writes:
The Tel Aviv-Washington axis is indeed giving birth to a new Middle East -- undoing its new Arab political allies (the "Lebanon First" coalition, the Mahmoud Abbas faction) and making Hizbullah wildly popular in Lebanon and the rest of the Middle East. But that means that it will redouble its efforts to put economic sanctions on Iran. ============================ True, but will Russia and China go along and how effective would these sanctions be - especially if oil, as seems likely, is exempted? Also, I wouldn't count out the US's sidelined political allies just yet if the US, ultimately faced with the choice of a wider Middle East war, possibly involving the use of nuclear weapons, or cobbling together a modus vivendi of some sort, opts for the latter. I'm not sure the US/Israeli axis still sees the outlines of a "new Middle East" hoving into view as it once did and still so confidently proclaims for domestic consumption. Their leaders now seem to wear a look of battered bewilderment as they try to feel their way forward. Washington and Tel Aviv simply did not expect Iraq and Lebanon to turn out the way that they have.
