New Left Review 29, September-October 2004
The Israeli business class’s recipe for a New Middle East—their leader-ship and high-tech sector, fertilized by Gulf oil money and low-cost Arab labour—was premised on a Palestinian settlement, bitterly opposed by an ethno-nationalist Jewish working class. How did Sharon break the deadlock?
YOAV PELED
PROFITS OR GLORY?
The Twenty-Eighth Elul of Arik Sharon
‘Rien pour la gloire! Glory brings no profit! Peace everywhere and always! War depresses the quotations of the three and four per cents!’ the France of the Bourse jobbers had inscribed on her banner.
Karl Marx, The Class Struggles in France
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