FP : America Is a Root Cause of Israel and Palestine’s Latest War How 30 years of U.S. policy ended in disaster. Walt-Steve-foreign-policy-columnist20 Walt-Steve-foreign-policy-columnist20 Stephen M. Walt By Stephen M. Walt
America Is a Root Cause of Israel and Palestine’s Latest War
How 30 years of U.S. policy ended in disaster.
Walt-Steve-foreign-policy-columnist20Stephen M. Walt
By Stephen M. Walt, a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University.
Then-U.S. President Barack Obama walks alongside former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush before speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 16, 2010.
Then-U.S. President Barack Obama walks alongside former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush before speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 16, 2010. SAUL LOEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
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As Israelis and Palestinians mourn the dead and fearfully await news of those now missing, the tendency to look for someone to blame is impossible for many to resist. Israelis and their supporters want to pin all the blame on Hamas, whose direct responsibility for the horrific attack on Israeli civilians is beyond question. Those more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause see the tragedy as the inevitable result of decades of occupation and Israel’s harsh and prolonged treatment of its Palestinian subjects.
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