[Peace-discuss] Gaza Genocide: "Boycott, Divest, Sanction: Stopping Zionist Genocide Against the Palestinians"

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Francis — Did you see the flyer distributed at the last regular AWARE demonstration (May 9)?

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Israel is pushing the U.S. to go to war with Iran. We shouldn’t let it happen.

Fifteen years ago the U.S. government attacked Iraq and killed a million people - on the basis of lies that Iraq had dangerous “weapons of mass destruction.”

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump talked of his opposition to the attack on Iraq:

“Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we’re in. I would never have handled it that way ... What was the purpose of this whole thing? Hundreds and hundreds of young people killed. And what about the people coming back with no arms and legs? Not to mention the other side. All those Iraqi kids who’ve been blown to pieces. And it turns out that all of the reasons for the war were blatantly wrong. All this for nothing!”

A principal instigator of that shameful US war against Iraq was the government of Israel, who wished to remove Iraq as a regional rival in the Middle East.

Now Israel is trying to repeat that crime, urging the US to attack and kill Iranians.

But the US is part of a deal with Iran and six other countries that guarantees that Iran will not develop even one nuclear weapon. (The US has thousands; Israel has at least two hundred.)

The ‘Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,’ known as the Iran nuclear deal, is an international agreement reached in Vienna in 2015 between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (China, France, Russia, Britain and the US), plus Germany and the European Union.

President Trump has announced he will violate the agreement and ‘withdraw’ from the deal. The Israeli government cheers, because they want the US to attack Iran, for their benefit.

(Aaron Maté writes, “Trump cited Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's bogus speech from last week. Without doubt this effort is coordinated. Will any Democrats call for an investigation of this Trump collusion with a foreign power [like ‘Russiagate’]?”)

In order to get its war on, Israel has attacked Iranian troops in Syria (who are there legally, unlike US troops) -- including a bombing last week that registered as a 2.6 earthquake on seismographs. An Israeli government advisor has all but admitted that killing Iranians in Syria is designed to provoke an open war with Iran. Meanwhile, Israeli snipers kill peaceful protesters in Gaza, including children and journalists.

We should not let the Trump administration be manipulated into war. The president and our Congressional representatives should be urged to remember the lessons of Iraq and not attack Iran - among other things a more populous and better armed country, with powerful allies, notably Russia and China. War with Iran risks a much larger war - even a nuclear war.

The largest anti-war demonstrations in history occurred around the world before the US attacked Iraq. As Americans we must do even more to prevent this new criminal war.

If the US and Israel attack Iran, there should be general work stoppages - strikes - and street demonstrations across the US.

In the meantime, write the president and your Congressional representatives. Demand that the US abide by international law and agreements.

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