Copyrighted Image? DMCA | About the Current Situation in Palestine: Gaza Under the Bombs and the Threat of a Ground Invasion by the Israeli Army | Socialist Organizer [reprinted from Fourth International Newsletter No. 34 (new series - No. 305), July 15, 2014] The current situation in Palestine is a concentrated expression of the world political situation. The Middle East has been marked by a wave of dislocations (Iraq, Syria). The crisis of U.S. domination on a world scale once again expresses itself in its inability to master the "world order," as evidenced by the fall of Mosul and the conquest of part of Iraq by the Islamic Army of Iraq and Levant. To try to exercise some control over these developments, U.S. imperialism had to turn to Iran at the expense of its traditional allies, Saudi Arabia and Israel. This has sharpened the contradictions throughout the region. |