Since the Gulf War, Israel has had to sit on the sidelines as US exercised its military muscle. Israel's military expertise cannot be used as long as a coalition of Arab nations is desired. But the coup de grace for Israeli and US interests diverging must be seen as the growing instability its policies are bringing to the region. Its brutal occupation of Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank and Gaza requires a solution. Without one soon, the stability of friendly regimes to the US could be in jeopardy.
Instability means economic upheaval regarding oil.
As long as Israel served US interests, we were treated to an Orwellian world of discourse. These and many other myths became part and parcel of conventional thinking. But today, the long Orwellian nightmare is giving way as the absurdity of Israel's brutal occupation is seen worldwide. US interests and Israeli interests will never again converge. The writer is a Palestinian-American businessman who writes on business ethics, management theory and political topics.