American Duplicity and Arab Cowardice Enabling Israeli War Crimes and Ethnic Cleansing

Hossein Askari
4 min readFeb 23, 2024

President Biden, looking somber, keeps urging Israel to avoid civilian deaths and to use targeted strikes on Hamas. Yet he keeps supplying Israel with 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs that are designed to kill indiscriminately and over a wide area!

He rightly reels against nuclear proliferation and vows to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Yet the United States will not even acknowledge the fact that Israel possesses over 200 nukes, let alone endorse a longstanding Arab and Iranian proposal to make the region a nuclear-free zone! Why? Because Israel wants to keep its nukes so it can threaten its neighbors. As a result, we risk a nuclear war.

The U.S. says it wants an end to hostilities and civilian deaths, largely those of women and children in the Gaza ‘war’ that is not a war because what we have is an army of well-equipped soldiers massacring defenseless women and children. Yet at the United Nations Security Council, the United States stands isolated after having vetoed three resolutions demanding an immediate ceasefire!

The world recognizes that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is illegal and the U.S. has said that these settlements should not be expanded, yet has looked the other way as the proliferation of settlements has…

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Hossein Askari

MIT engineer-economist. Prof: Tufts, UT-Austin, GW. IMF Board. Gov Mediator: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. Focus on Econ-Fin, Oil, Sanctions, Mid-East, Islam