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Israel is a “strategic liability of the first order” for the United States and is “the most likely state in the world to take the United States to Armageddon,” says Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Sec’y of State Colin Powell. And the neoconservatives planned to set the Middle East on fire so that Israel’s enemies wouldn’t be able to give it trouble.

A Palestinian refugee holds the keys to the house he was forced from in 1948, in the Al Jalazoun refugee camp in the West Bank City of Ramallah on May 14 2012. (Photo: Issam Rimawi/APA Images)

Farrah Akbik learned the story of Palestine from a friend’s family who lived it firsthand when they were forced out of Safed in 1948, and still had the key to their house hanging on the wall of their small apartment in Damascus. “There is an ongoing system of Apartheid designed specifically to push more and more Palestinians out of their rightful homes and ancestral lands, and to populate them with settlers. More injustice, more people on the roads of exodus carrying yet more keys. The apathy I read, see and hear around me is baffling, but maybe if they had sat in that kitchen with Abu Khaldoon and heard him retell his journey I would like to think that even the most indifferent of hearts would have been stirred.”

Joe Biden speaking in Clear Lake, Iowa, August 2019 (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

Dropping bombs on the Middle East is a rite of passage for modern Presidents and last week Joe Biden officially joined the club.