The U.S. President-Elect George W. Bush has nominated former army commander Colin Powell as the U.S. secretary of state. The appointment reminds one of the U.S. policy during the Cold War era, when the Republicans fomented or fanned the flames of crises in different parts of the world to promote their armament industry and in order to keep the ball of their arms sales rolling. But today, although the Cold War era is long over, it seems that the Cold War mentality is still haunting the Republicans. Furthermore, considering the ignorance of the U.S. president-elect, as exposed through his interviews during his election campaign in which he admitted that he did not even know the names of the heads of state of India or Pakistan, it is clear that Bush is not really the one at the helm in Washington, but those magnates that financed his election campaign will be the real authors of the U.S. policies in the years to come. With Powell at the top of the U.S. diplomacy apparatus, it seems that the U.S. foreign policy will be based on a revived form of militarism that dominated East-West relations in the Cold War era. Thus, it is only natural to expect the escalation of regional and international crises aimed at funnelling more money into the pockets of American arms manufacturers. The most obvious bearing of the Bush-Powell team will be seen in the Middle East. As announced by Bush and Powell, Washington will fully support Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians. Indeed, one reason for appointing Powell as secretary of state is the ongoing Intifada, or uprising of the Palestinians, in the occupied territories. Washington is once again indicating its bias in favor of the Zionists. Thus, the Palestinian leaders who have so far been pinning their hopes on the so-called peace process should realize that they are not going to achieve anything unless they join the ranks of the Palestinian people in their struggle against the Zionist occupiers. The new U.S. officials like Powell should also bear in mind that the wave of the Palestinian uprising is too strong to be suppressed by the U.S. militarized diplomacy. In fact this wave will subside only with the eradication of the cancerous tumor of Israel from the region.