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How the West Chose War in Gaza
The writer of this NYTimes Op-ed, Nathan Thrall, author of How the West Chose War in Gaza, provides good context on Democracy Now today.
and
in the Times:
A"s Hamas fires rockets at Israeli cities and Israel follows up its extensive airstrikes with a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, the most immediate cause of this latest war has been ignored: Israel and much of the international community placed a prohibitive set of obstacles in the way of the Palestinian “national consensus” government that was formed in early June."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/opinion/gaza-and-israel-the-road-to-war-paved-by-the-west.html?_r=0