America’s Gordian Knot in the Middle East May Be Impossible to Undo

Hossein Askari
4 min readJul 28, 2024

The United States has created a monster in the form of the state of Israel. A heartless and arrogant country with little compassion for Palestinians. Soon after the creation of the state of Israel, America began to assist the country in every way. This history is so well known that I can be brief. We have given more taxpayer money, arms and political support to Israel than to any other country in our history and in return we have gotten only more and more enemies around the world. Israel has slaughtered more than 40,000 civilians in Gaza, including 30,000 women and children and has killed, injured and imprisoned thousands from the West Bank since October 7. Now, when 12 Israelis are sadly killed by a missile attack on the Golan Heights — land that Israel illegally occupies — the Zionist state has vowed a harsh response. Clearly Israel sees the lives of 12 Israeli children as being several thousand times more important than the lives of the Palestinian children that they slaughter by the dozens on a daily basis.

What would be a commensurate Arab response to Israel’s carnage in Gaza and in the rest of Palestine?

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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