Let’s Face It: The West is All In with Israel’s Plan to Annihilate Palestinians

Hossein Askari
4 min readNov 14, 2023

Let’s cut to the chase. Hamas’ atrocities of October 7 were a heinous terrorist attack, something that cannot be condoned, but it did not happen in a vacuum as claimed by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres. If it didn’t happen in a vacuum, what was in that space? Israel’s 80 years of Zionist cruelty, inhumanity, incarceration, torture, murder, confiscation of land and other property; with Gaza the largest prison in the world, holding 2.5 million Palestinians who are embargoed from the rest of the world by the neo-colonial Zionist Israel. And as we speak, Israel is bombing women and children in Gaza with impunity, hoping that its bombs will in the process kill Hamas perpetrators. Who is the bigger criminal — Palestinians or Israel? You be the judge.

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu calls Hamas and those in Gaza “animals” and Amihai Eliyahu, one of Israel’s far-right ministers, proposed dropping Israel’s nuclear bombs on the inhabitants of Gaza. Frank N. von Hippel, Emeritus Professor of Public and International Affairs with Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security calls this a “criminal statement” by a “lunatic.” All this while Hamas blares out offensive threats that it wants to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. This threat is also criminal but empty…

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Hossein Askari
Hossein Askari

Written by 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