Civil Wars?

Dr. Marcy /مارسي Newman, Body on the Line

...Every day I read more stories about escalating violence and factionalism or sectarianism growing in Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon. There are articles aboutan impending civil war in Palestine that are increasing. But are these articles describing a reality? Or are they projecting fears about the future? I know from friends who have spent a good deal of time in Iraq over the past few years working as journalists that much of the rhetoric about civil war or Sunni-Shia' fighting (of course, the mainstream media is forever ignoring the Shia-led militia squads targeting Palestinians or Kurdish Iranians who, like Palestinians in Baghdad, had to flee to refugee camps in Jordan or who are in the No Man's Land area in between Jordan and Iraq or Syria and Iraq because neither Syria nor Jordan will let them inside their borders) was initiated and/or propagated by the U.S. media or the state department in ways that made it a self-fulfilling prophecy. I fear that this is happening in Lebanon and Palestine too with all of the rhetoric in the media about what is to come. I especially think this when I read about the U.S. making promises of arming Fatah against Hamas (though a part of me believes this has already happened)...

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