THE WISDOM FUND: News & Views
The Independent (UK)
January 15, 2003

New Crisis, Old Lessons

by Robert Fisk

There was secret collusion, a fraudulent attempt to use the United Nations as a fig leaf for war, a largely unsympathetic British public, journalists used as propagandists and our enemy -- an Arab dictator previously regarded as a friend of the West -- compared to the worst criminals of the Second World War. Sound familiar? Well, it happened almost half a century ago, not over oil but over a narrow man-made canal linking the Mediterranean with the Red Sea.

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