The Imperialistic Israeli Economy http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m75031&hd=&size=1&l=e

 In a 1980 article, Rami G. Khouri described the underpinning economic benefits that incentivized Israel to continue occupying the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The occupation transformed Israel into a state with an imperial economy, relying for its well-being (and in some cases, such as water, for its very survival) on the captive economic resources of occupied territories and their subjugated and pacified populations. Deprived of the economic spoils of a military occupation, Israel's underlying economic woes would become even more obvious, serious and debilitating....