Bob Hawke’s conditional friendship
In Bob Hawke’s recent article (Australian Financial Review, 13 February) he claims that it is a certainty that in the Middle East ‘there can be no possibility of any sort of lasting peace without a settlement of the Israel-Palestinian dispute.’
Let’s look into this proposition. Iran’s incursion into the Syrian civil war had nothing to do with spreading its hegemony into the Syrian-Lebanese region.
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