History is full of ironies: World War I, marketed to Americans as a “war to end all wars,” paved the way for an even more massive slaughter. The invasion and conquest of Iraq – which was supposed to augur what George W. Bush hailed as a “global democratic revolution” – instead ushered in a new era of chaos, bloodshed, andtyranny in the region. And in the year 2014, the state of Israel, founded in large part as a reaction to the Holocaust, has embarked on a policy of genocide in Gaza.
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