Sunday Times 2
Gaza war exposes the tale of Western intrigue in West Asia since WWI
View(s):Today it is becoming increasingly clear that the ongoing Israeli genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory of Gaza has been a well-coordinated and executed war crime. Continuing events have exposed the complicity of the US, the UK, Europe and despotic Arab rulers in the execution of Israel’s genocidal attacks.
Through his weekly articles to the international media on the unfolding heinous crimes committed by Israel on helpless Palestinian civilians, senior Sri Lankan journalist Latheef Farook has ended up writing the history of the hegemonic West’s crimes, which began in the region in the aftermath of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I. The book aptly titled “No Tears for Palestine” also exposes the treacherous role Arab dictators played and are still playing in betraying the Palestinian cause.
Palestinian father Wissam Wishah who lost three of his children--Said, Salma, and Eline--in Israeli strikes in the vicinity of their home, plays alongside his son with their toys and belongings he collected at their heavily-damaged house at the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on May 1, 2025. Amnesty International accused Israel of committing a "live-streamed genocide" against Palestinians by forcibly displacing Gazans and creating a humanitarian catastrophe in the besieged territory". (Pic by Eyad BABA / AFP)
No tears for Palestine Author: Latheef Farook
In the First World War—July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918—Turkey’s Ottoman Empire was defeated by the imperial British and French powers. The victorious British and French brought the Middle East under their control. They then divided the territory under their control into separate states and installed corrupt Arab dictators to serve their interests.
The new rulers enjoyed no popular support among the local population. They were thus forced to depend on the military power of their imperial benefactors for their continued rule. To date this oppressive system continues with corrupt rulers fattening themselves, while the people remain poverty-stricken and illiterate.
In 1948, in the aftermath of World War II, the victorious Allied powers (the US, the UK and other European states) created an artificial racist Jewish state of Israel in what was originally the undivided state of Palestine. The new immigrants, after driving out Palestinians from their homes and lands, claimed their lands for themselves.
Since the formation of the alien racist state of Israel in 1948, the US and other imperial states in Europe use Israel and the Arab stooge rulers to take forward their evil agenda. This publication explains in detail the US, European and Israeli conspiracies to eliminate the Palestinian people and ensure that the Middle East remains destabilised.