“Donning yourself with an Israeli flag while demonstrating for freedom in Iran is a travesty: this a flag that today represents a genocidal state led by war criminals. Equally, waving the American flag shows identification with an administration that executes violent policies informed by economic greed, Islamophobia, racism and overt imperialism. “I can understand pragmatic alliances. It is not always possible to be purist when one builds an alliance against injustice, but there must be red lines that cannot be crossed even in the face of calamity . Once the bombing subsides “ Palestine and the Palestinians will still be the most important issue facing Israel and its allies in the region and in the world. Americans will be left with a president that destroys their economy, their international standing and social cohesion and it is very likely that Iran will still be ruled by the same regime, be it weakened or more challenged. The political map of the region will not change much, neithe...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51