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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gendzier, Irene

Titel

Introduction: Open Secrets

Ist Teil von

• Dying to Forget, 2015, p.XIII

Ort / Verlag

United States: Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I completed this study in 2014 in the midst of the Israeli invasion of Gaza. Those familiar with the distant origins of the present conflict will recall the events of 1948.¹ As in past Israeli invasions of Gaza, in 2008 and 2012, the 2014 war in Gaza was enabled by U.S. support. In the summer of 2014, the National Security Agency (NSA) disclosed that “Israeli aggression would be impossible without the constant, lavish support and protection of the U.S. government, which is anything but a neutral, peace-brokering party in these attacks.”² Subsequent disclosures in theWall Street Journalexposed the