Tag: Palestinian state

15 years of failed experiments: Myths and facts about the Israeli siege on Gaza

Ms. Cat

By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | July 5, 2022

Fifteen years have passed since Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, subjecting nearly two million Palestinians to one of the longest and most cruel politically-motivated blockades in history. Back then, the Israeli government justified its siege as the only way to protect Israel from Palestinian “terrorism and rocket attacks”. This is the occupation state’s official line to this day, and yet not many Israelis — certainly not in government, the media or even ordinary people — would argue that Israel today is safer than it was prior to June 2007.

15 years of failed experiments: Myths and facts about the Israeli siege on Gaza

Iran’s supposed threat to the U.S. is a scam Israel and its lobby promote to change the subject from Palestine

Ms. Cat
NETANYAHU PUTS A RED LINE ON AN IRANIAN BOMB CARTOON DURING A SPEECH TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN SEPTEMBER 2012. SCREENSHOT.

Some day historians will scratch their heads over the fact that for the better part of 20 years U.S. presidents were engaged as a leading foreign policy question in how to restrain Iran, a small country half the world away that has not attacked the U.S., that does not have nuclear weapons, that is the seat of ancient civilization, and whose contribution to regional instability doesn’t look any worse than Israel’s or Saudi Arabia’s.

Iran’s supposed threat to the U.S. is a scam Israel and its lobby promote to change the subject from Palestine