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Tim Anderson told Press TV in a phone interview on Monday that Israel "can't take a step without getting the green light from Washington" as he commented on the recent deadly attacks by the Zionist regime on Gaza.
"We can take it for granted that Washington would have been informed about it and has given the green light privately to this operation against Gaza," he added.
At least 39 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have lost their lives in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll from Israel's attacks on the besieged enclave to 175. Over 1,270 others have also been injured and Palestinian families are fleeing their homes in northern Gaza.
Meanwhile, Palestinian fighters have launched more rockets into Israel in retaliation for the bombardment of Gaza.
"It's a desperate situation really," said Anderson. "What makes it a little bit different this time is that at least the Palestinians are trying to defend themselves and this is an awfully one-sided affair."
He said that nobody can "deny the rights of the Palestinians to defend themselves," given the complete lack of international support for them.
Comment: Palestine has no real military nor the means to defend themselves equally. The Palestinians cannot defend themselves against the large, well armed, duly supported and truly evil Israeli military.
Anderson criticized the United Nations' human rights office for taking "an even-handed approach" to the conflict by saying "both sides should show restraint."
"It's not about sides question at all, it's a genocidal attack," Anderson noted.
On Friday, the US House of Representatives expressed support for Israel's deadly strikes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by voting in favor of a non-binding resolution that acknowledged Tel Aviv's right to what they called self-defense.
Sen. John McCain, a member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also said on Sunday that Israel's "restraint" in its continuing deadly airstrikes on Gaza is "admirable."
Comment: What a disgusting psychopathic slimeball! Dead children, specifically targeted, is not showing restraint nor admirable.
Every year, Washington provides Israel with $3.1 billion of American taxpayers' money in military aid. US and Israeli officials have discussed a surge in US military aid to Israel in a new 10-year aid package that is expected to be signed in 2017.
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The US sells arms to Quatar, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Then they sell arms to Israel, and give the Israeli government BILLIONS to develop their "star wars" defense system (the original wet dream of Ronald Reagan).
Then somehow the Palestinians get rocket launchers and rockets... then the US sits back and watches the fireworks.
Perhaps peace would come to the Middle East if war there were not so lucrative.
I pray that the Jewish messiah, Yeshua, will return soon, so we can look forward to a future of beating our swords into plowshares. Remember that only love can conquer hate.