Making a desert and calling it peace in the Middle East


Western conspiracy?: Syrian opposition fighters celebrating the collapse of the Syrian government in Damascus. The recent fall of Syria is the culmination of the Israel-US campaign against Syria that goes back to 1996 with Netanyahu’s arrival to office as Israeli prime minister, says the writer. — AP

IN the famous lines of Tacitus, Roman historian, “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”

In our age, it is Israel and the United States that make a desert and call it peace.

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