US 'monitoring Iraqi views on Gaza invasion'

[Joanne98]

Source: Gulf News

Baghdad: The US is closely monitoring Iraqi sentiment towards events in Gaza, collecting intelligence and strategic information on the nature of any future Iraqi position on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The US knows that there are threats from both the Sunni and Shiite Islamist parties, which both have significant representation in the Iraqi government. These parties, especially the Shiite ones which have a close affiliation with Iran, worry the US that a future Iraq would adopt very strict attitudes towards Israel. It may very well be a continuous state of war between Iraq and Israel, which is directly opposing US goals in the region.

Kurdish parties also express solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom, especially in light of historical relations with the PLO under the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.



Read more: http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Iraq/10275288.html

[balantz]

1. It's a grave new world. n/t

[polly7]

2. What is it to the U.S., or Canada, or anyone else for that matter who

doesn't give a shit about these people themselves? If Palesinian Arabs have neighbours who care they're being murdered and cleansed of everything human beings in the rest of the world are naturally entitled to under international and humanitarian law ........ good for them! Much of the world aided the U.S. after the attacks of 9/11, as a Canadian I would hope my neighbour would be outraged at an attack on us ....... but Palestinians being destroyed aren't allowed Allies? My relatives fought and died helping stop Hitler's atrocities from the beginning. Why do we sacrifice so much for some and "closely monitor" those who would dare to do so for others? The hypocrisy is sickening.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Well said. Bravo! It is typically weird and atrocious. It seems as though

the U.S. is surprised about the world concern and shift of support for the Palestinian victims.

[marasinghe]

4. echoing higherclass: well said, indeed, polly.

what depths of frickin' arrogance does it take, to monitor your own victims - to the tune of a million murdered - for their views on the killing of their neighbors & cousins.

[teknomanzer]

5. dupe

dupe

[teknomanzer]

6. Is this something that has to be monitored?

So I am not a foreign policy expert by any means, but I think it is BEYOND FUCKING OBVIOUS what kind of attitude the leaders of an Arab majority nation will have towards the wholesale slaughter of Palestinian Arabs by the IDF. If a government official asked me to build a concise report on the subject I think the title might be, "Do Iraqi's hate Israel for bombing the shit out of Palestinians? What the fuck do you think!"

[okiru109]

7. maybe this is part of the plan - provoke, monitor, when they pop up, take them out

well, that was what rummy used to say... talk about a sick self fulfilling prophecy as policy no less.