This book contains: 1. Give peace a chance: The forces of war and peace 2. Holy lands: The history and peoples of the Middle East 3. Between Iraq dan hard place: The war in the Persian Gulf 4. Green Terror: The war and the environment 5. Spectator war: The war and the media
This book deals with a phenomenon that has for centuries now cast its dark shadow over the history and politics of that highly sensitive and troubled region: The Persian Gulf. This phenomenon is the uninterrupted "interest" displayed in this region by a whole series of colonialist and imperialist powers. This "interest" has manifested itself in open as well as covert interference, outright inva…