Al-Jazeera report on events since 7th Oct 2023
Some of the few statements made:
Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute think tank in Washington, DC, said if there had been “a real effort” for a ceasefire in Gaza early on, “we would not be in this situation now”. “The key thing that led to this escalation is that the US posture has been to seek to deter Iran and any of its proxies, or any of its partners in the region from retaliating against Israel, but has done nothing to prevent Israel from escalating in the first place,” Parsi told Al Jazeera. “If Biden had put pressure on Israel not to escalate, then his efforts to stop the others from escalating would be more successful. Instead, he decided to enable Israeli escalation and protect it.”

Denijal Jegic, assistant professor at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, agreed that “Washington and its proxies are protecting Israel from any accountability while making sure Netanyahu can continue to commit genocide in Gaza and colonial violence throughout the region and confront anyone who attempts to intervene”. He told Al Jazeera the international community has miserably failed to intervene in the genocide in Gaza, particularly due to US hegemony and the power imbalance in UN institutions.

[aje.io]