This week, Israel bombed Hamas leadership in Qatar in a brazen attack within the Arab state. This is after a two year genocide in Gaza, moves to annex the West Bank, a 12 day war with Iran, a two month war in Lebanon, and attacks on Tunis, Yemen and Syria.
Listen to our Encore Episode on the 9/11 attacks:
The Middle East’s forever wars continue with U.S. involvement from Harry Truman to Donald Trump. A watershed event that escalated conflict the Middle East was the September 11th, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington D.C.
In this encore episode from 2020, we offered personal recollections, talked about the larger historical context in which it occurred, considered the consequences of the attacks–prolonged Mid-East wars and heightened repression at home, discussed the way the attacks and wars were manipulated for “patriotic” reasons, and talked about how it effects the U.S., in the era of (2020) Trump.
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