When the Democratic party’s governing body adjourned its meeting on Saturday in New Orleans, supporters of Palestine and an end of the genocide in Gaza had few reasons to celebrate. The Democratic National Committee had refused to give any ground to the large majority of the party’s voters with distinctly negative views of Israel…
…But the DNC continues to operate as if fully sealed off from the party’s voters on such matters. When the national meeting got under way on Thursday, the party’s resolutions committee proceeded to quickly discard a pair of resolutions critical of Israel…
…,The Democratic National Committee is a powerful model of what ails the party leadership at a time when the US-Israel alliance has been rampaging through the Middle East, terrorizing millions of people while leaving deaths and injuries and colossal destruction in its wake.
LOL, when was that? Be specific, now.
When the USA and Europe turned a blind eye to Saddam Hussein it led to them holding a military expansion campaign throughout the 80s and in 1990 during the Gulf War. In the 1990s the USA had several trade alliances, namely Saudi Arabia, but otherwise minimal involvement in the middle east but then 5 plane hijackings by mostly Saudi Arabian born terrorists hit notable US Infrastructure such as the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Fucked if we do and fucked if we don’t, the only way to end the proxy war is if the USA/Europe or Russia/China lose directly and not indirectly.
In the '80s and '90s, the US and Europe were actively arming and supporting their settler-colonial project named “Israel.” Ditto for the 2000s through today, as well as going from the '70s all the way back to 1948. Even further back, from 1920 to 1948, the British were administering that colony more directly, under the name “Mandatory Palestine.” Immediately before that, Europe was fighting, defeating, and partitioning the Ottoman Empire.
Oh and by the way, Britain was also controlling Egypt at that time, having occupied it during the Anglo-Egyption War starting in 1882 and not giving it up until 1956. And let’s not forget about India, either, including the part that would later become Pakistan. Britain’s colonial interests there led them to become adversaries with Russia over their spheres of influence in central Asia, including fighting various wars in Persia and Afghanistan in the 1800s.
So yeah, by my reckoning, “Europe and the USA” (but mostly Britain until after WWII) have been fucking with the Middle East CONTINUOUSLY AND WITHOUT EVEN A SINGLE DAY OF PAUSE for 200+ years. And that figure is only because that’s as far back as I care to list, not as far back as the colonialism goes!
When saddam hussein benefited europe and usa imperialism they was his ally when they no longer neede him they executed him