JUNE 01, 2021 by TONY BADRAN
Who Started the Gaza War? America did
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The framing for the latest Gaza war was in fact provided not by Jerusalem or Gaza City but by Tehran. Four days before the rocket fire started, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, set the tone in his Quds Day speech by attacking the “normalization of relations” between Arab states and Israel as a failure. “Today,” Khamenei declared, “the balance of power has swung.”
The connection between rockets from Gaza and “Israeli provocation in Jerusalem” was thus made by the Iranian government. …
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The Iranian framing of a new “balance of power” fits seamlessly with the U.S. administration’s declared priorities. As part of its regional Realignment doctrine, the Biden administration has moved away from the Abraham Accords as fast as it can, openly denigrating the agreements as a sideshow or failure. …
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https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/gaza-america-tony-badran