Could The Gaza War Morph Into A Muslim Jewish War and Entrap the United States?

Hossein Askari
10 min readJul 25, 2024

Most people have witnessed the unfolding Israeli horrors in Gaza. No sane human being could classify Israel’s war as self-defense. It is brutal carnage in real time. Israel has killed well over 40,000 Palestinians, including 30,000 women and children in Gaza, with many more likely buried under the rubble and thousands injured; it has denied food and basic medicine to suffering Palestinians who have had limbs amputated without anesthetic and who face imminent danger of starvation, cholera and polio; and it has displaced the entire population of Gaza several times over. By any measure these are war crimes, if not genocide, pure and simple. The civilian casualties are unacceptable as confirmed by American generals such as Petraeus and by some politicians, even by President Biden an avowed Zionist. While Gaza has witnessed the most visible terror inflicted on Palestinians, less reported is the slaughter, torture, displacement and imprisonment of Palestinians in the West Bank, where Israeli settlers, who are deemed illegal settlers by the United Nations, have been engaged in a government-sanctioned rampage of ethnic cleansing and torture.

All this in self-defense? All this to eradicate Hamas? Knowing full well that the idea behind Hamas cannot be eradicated by death and destruction?

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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