Veteran Middle East correspondent John Cooley, author of "An Alliance Against Babylon: US, Israel and Iraq," examines the history of Iraq-Israel relations and reasons why Israel wanted Iraq invaded as well as Israel's past ties to Iran.
Interviewed by Jeff Blankfort
John Cooley's "An Alliance Against Babylon: US, Israel and Iraq," (Pluto, 2005) has been ignored by the US media because of his critique of the role of Israel, the Israel-linked neocons and Israel's US lobby in pushing for the war on Iraq.