“Not Wanting” A Wider Middle East War, the U.S. Has Started One, by Edward Curtin

Let’s keep in mind that the wider the war, the more the MIC will make. They couldn’t care less what a mere politicians might say about “not wanting” a wider war. From Edward Curtin at unz.com:

You have to hand it to the U.S. and its henchmen for brazenness. In order to protect their client state Israel and its genocide in Gaza, the U.S., together with the UK, have in one week launched air and sea attacks on the Houthis in Yemen five times, referring to it as “self-defense” in their Orwellian lingo. The ostensible reason being Yemen’s refusal to allow ships bound for Israel, which is committing genocide in Gaza, to enter the Red Sea, while permitting other ships to pass freely.

To any impartial observer, the Houthis should be lauded. Yet, while the International Court of Justice considers the South African charge of genocide against Israel that is supported by overwhelming evidence, the U.S. and its allies have instigated a wider war throughout the Middle East while claiming they do not want such a war. These settler colonial states want genocide and a much wider war because they have been set back on their heels by those they have mocked, provoked, and attacked – notably the Palestinians, Syrians, and Russians, among others.

While the criminalization of international law does not bode well for the ICJ’s upcoming ruling or its ability to stop Israeli’s genocide in Gaza, Michel Chossudovsky, of Global Research, as is his wont, has offered a superb analysis and suggestion for those who oppose such crimes: that Principle IV of the Nuremberg Charter – “The fact that a person [e.g. Israeli, U.S. soldiers, pilots] acted pursuant to order of his [her] Government or of a superior does not relieve him [her] from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.” – should be used to supplement the South African charges and appeal directly to the moral consciences of those asked to carry out acts of genocide. He writes:

Let us call upon Israeli and American soldiers and pilots “to abandon the battlefield”, as an act of refusal to participate in a criminal undertaking against the People of Gaza.

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One response to ““Not Wanting” A Wider Middle East War, the U.S. Has Started One, by Edward Curtin


  1. Yemen is the only one to declare WAR on the indispensable ally.

    Yemen made Saudi Arabia throw in the towel and don’t scare that easily like the old Mudcrutch song.

    Proxy war can work both ways like all tactics.

    The big powerful backers will show their faces when the excitement really begins WWIII.

    O/T-blurb about SCROTUS allowing razor wire removal at border and fruity mini Sorrows tweet (?) with $47 and a bullet hole as some Trump reference.

    They would love to elevate the two minutes hate.

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