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SAWSAN MADINA
Suppose the United States and Israel, along with their complicit Western allies, manage to bomb Iran into submission, change its regime, and install their own puppet regime. So what? Will this bring security to Israel and peace to the Middle East? Of course not. Palestine will remain the problem.

Israel may achieve hegemony and, together with the United States, seize the region's resources, but as long as Palestinians are denied human rights, it will be surrounded by 500 million people rebelling against the injustice of it all.

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
But was Iran's policy of containment a mistake? Yes, it probably was, since if Tehran had the bomb, it seems very unlikely that Netanyahu would have entered Iran in such a manner, with such a vast and spectacular attack. He would have thought twice before bombing Iran with the brazenness he did this June. Iran's nuclear weapons would certainly have deterred Israel.

Tehran is a victim, and its refusal to possess nuclear weapons reflects the suffering that has characterized Shiites since the origins of Islam. Now it may be too late to correct course, as the Iranians had plenty of time—no less than eight years—to build the bomb, but they failed to do so, and now they simply have to resist the onslaught of Israel, and perhaps the United States.

JEFFREY D SACHS
The long history of Israel’s campaign to overthrow the Syrian government is not well known, but the documentary record is clear. Israel’s war on Syria began with American and Israeli neoconservatives in 1996, who designed a “clean break” Middle East strategy for Netanyahu when he came to power.

The core of the “clean break” strategy required Israel (and the United States) to reject the idea of ​​“land for peace,” according to which Israel would withdraw from occupied Palestinian lands in exchange for peace. Instead, Israel would retain the occupied Palestinian lands, rule over the Palestinian people in an apartheid state, ethnically cleanse the state step by step, and impose so-called “peace for peace” by overthrowing neighboring governments that resisted Israel’s territorial claims.