Europe’s blind following of America during the Gaza war

According to Fars News Agency International Group, the Middle East Eye news website in a report criticized the policies of European countries in the context of unquestioning adherence to the West in the issue of the war between Hamas and the Zionist regime in Gaza discusses and states that the experiences of the West’s failed actions after the September 11 incident should persuade these governments to stop blindly following the United States in launching wars in the Middle East.

Middle East Eye writes in this regard: Since the start of the Hamas surprise operation on October 7, Israel has responded to these attacks by killing more than 12,000 Palestinians, at least 4,500 of whom were children, and this This means that every 15 minutes a Palestinian child is killed by the Israeli army.

According to Middle East Eye, right after the October 7 attack, many Western officials from US President Joe Biden’s statement was compared to the September 11 incident. With the calculations he made, Biden said, “This issue was like the September 11 incident for Israel.” Regardless of the debate about the root cause of Hamas’s attack, Europeans should remember America’s failed policies after 9/11 and the regrets that many of them have from that experience.

Middle East Eye writes: However, as the Secretary General of the United Nations also stated, comparing the operation of October 7 in Gaza with September 11 in America was far from reality for many reasons. Some of the most important reasons were that the Palestinians have seen the occupation of their lands by Tel Aviv many times and have become more involved in Israeli violence every day. Their economy has been destroyed and their people have been displaced and their houses have been destroyed. His problems will disappear. However, it seems that the Western world is creating a similar environment after September 11 and is once again repeating many of the mistakes of the past 20 years.

Blindly following American foreign policy

In the story of the war October 7 The US government is behaving in the most bellicose manner imaginable. The performance of the current government of this country is reminiscent of the presidency of Republicans like George Bush, father and son in this country. It was on this basis that Biden’s response to the attack by Hamas and his unconditional support for Israel was praised by Bush II as one of the most infamous presidents in American history because of his fake war against Iraq.

according to Middle East Eye, despite all the support that has been given to the positions of the Biden government in the Gaza war, it should not be forgotten that Israel’s response is the disproportionate killing of Palestinian civilians through indiscriminate airstrikes and violations of international law through punishment It has been accompanied by mobs in Gaza and refusal to send aid and cut off water and electricity to civilians.

However, even the EU countries and the UK are Learning from previous mistakes in blindly following the American foreign policy, they continue to follow this wrong practice. The decade of war and extensive military attacks on American soil after September 11 ended with the disastrous invasion of the two countries of Afghanistan and Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and throwing the region into turmoil. A process whose effects continue even to this day. Now it seems that Western countries are preparing themselves for more mistakes during the Gaza war.

According to Middle East Eye, the mistakes of European leaders in the Gaza war today It is remarkably similar to their mistakes 20 years ago. First, they again ignore domestic anti-war protests and public demands for a ceasefire. Second, they continue to ignore widespread public calls to end their unconditional support for the United States and Israel in the Gaza war.

The third mistake of the European leaders is that they wholeheartedly accept information that has not yet been proven. Just like when Western intelligence confirmed Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction”. Fourth, they cannot learn from the experience of the United States in Afghanistan. where now the West handed it over to the Taliban without any results.

According to the Middle East Eye article, although the British Conservative Party gave the leader Rishi Sunak and the party The Labor of this country, led by Keir Starmer, have united together in condemning Hamas and showing their full support for Israel, the streets of Britain are full of people who support Palestine and have launched the largest march in support of the people of Gaza in the UK. As reported in the November 11th march, more than 800,000 people in Britain took to the streets in support of Palestine.

This huge participation in supporting Palestinians. It angered many commentators in the British press. The issue of disagreement and distance between the views of the British political leaders and the public opinion on the issue of the Gaza war can be well understood in the surveys conducted. The difference between the people and the government has intensified so much in the story of the Gaza war that the former British interior minister called the protests of the supporters of Palestine “disgusting”.

European Union countries are not much different. With the exception of some countries such as Ireland and Spain, which have been critical of Israel, the rest of the countries are competing with each other to stand by Netanyahu and show their full solidarity with Israel.

False advertisements

Middle East Eye writes, leaving aside the discussion of whether or not the American attack on Afghanistan is fair, the West should learn from the events of 2021. When, two decades after the massive invasions and subsequent massacres of thousands of people that he launched and the billions of dollars that he wasted, he decided to withdraw from Afghanistan without any consultation with his European allies and left it very easily in the hands of the Taliban. European leaders should also remember the chaotic and bloody scenes at the Kabul airport before blindly following the leadership of the United States of America against Hamas.

In 2003, they should also remember the Kurds in the story of the attack on Iraq. As an institute in the United Kingdom stated in 2016, the basis of the Western invasion of Iraq with the claim that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction was completely baseless.

> In the story of the Gaza war, America’s baseless claim was repeated once again, when Biden claimed that he had seen videos of Hamas cutting off the heads of Palestinian babies. However, shortly after this claim, the White House corrected Biden’s statements and stated that the president has not seen such images and does not confirm the related reports.

What not to do

Middle East Eye writes: Of course that Israel itself has a long history of lying about the killing of Palestinian civilians and has made false claims about Hamas attacks against children in various cases. However, its claims were soon exposed by foreign journalists.

Now Israel’s claim that the explosion at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, which killed 470 Palestinians, was caused by Hamas rocket attacks. could be another lie from the Israeli authorities. Israel even adopted such a position in the case of the murder of “Shirin Abu Aqla” and even in the early days of his killing, it denied responsibility for these actions and claimed that Palestinian fighters had done this. .

After proving this amount of lies by the American and Israeli officials, now the European powers should not be in too much of a hurry to accept the reasons for their attack on Gaza and believe so soon. Accept unconditional support of their positions. As the New York Times columnist says: If we see the United States’ reactions to the incident of September 11 as a model, it should be considered a model for what not to do.

Perhaps it is better to repeat this sentence by “Albert Einstein”, who was also a Jew himself: Insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting different results. In the case of the Gaza war, it is crazy to support the positions of the Western governments, which have repeatedly repeated those wrong positions in launching wars in the Middle East and expected different results each time.

end of message/m