Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of international relations, University of East London and founding editor, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (Routledge, eight issues a year since 1998), UK
The true target of the violence onboard the Turkish boat carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza on 31 May was the US. But this attempt to force Obama into backing Israel uncritically was based on an outdated, neo-zionist view of geo-politics. For the US is not the power it was