While the US-led coalition can indeed inflect much damage on IS and eventually claim some sort of victory, they will ultimately exasperate the sectarian tension that will spill over to other Middle Eastern nations
The exclusion of a real Palestinian narrative is cemented by those who are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause
In order to answer this question, one has to liberate the argument from its geopolitical and ideological confines
The U.S. is very much involved in fighting this dirty war on Gaza that has killed over 1,050, injured thousands more, and destroyed much of an already poor, dilapidated space that was barely inhabitable to begin with.
Another Failed War to Re-Arrange the Middle East
On Victory and False Victory
Israel’s most recent war on Gaza, starting on July 7, came at a time that political Islam was being routed out in Egypt and criminalized in other Arab countries
Netanyahu’s war on Gaza means to distract from the slowly building collective sentiment among Palestinians throughout Palestine, and among Palestinian citizens in Israel
For Palestinians in Gaza, this is not about mere resistance strategies, but their very survival
The Plan to ‘Moderate’ Hamas, Control Gaza
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