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Al Jazeera | International response after Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in decades with hostages taken and many killed.
"It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them." Sadly, Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize for Literature lecture continues to be as relevant today as when he gave it in 2005. And nothing confirms the accuracy of the British playwright’s incisive words better than the ongoing U.S. intervention in Syria.
The United States was involved in Afghanistan long before 9/11, fomenting Islamist revolt and paving the way for its own defeat.