Call it what it is - savagery, blackmail, strangulation, starvation - U.S. foreign policy at its finest

The Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya, called a cutoff in foreign aid "blackmail" on Saturday . . .

it's just u.s. foreign policy as usual... the goal is to make the palestinian people so miserable that they'll kick hamas out...

NOAM CHOMSKY: We have records going from way back, and a rich source of them go back to the Kennedy-Johnson administrations. They had to carry out a terrorist war against Cuba, as they did, and try to strangle Cuba economically because of Cuba's -- what they called Cuba's successful defiance of U.S. policies, going back to the Monroe Doctrine. No Russians, but the Monroe Doctrine, 150 years back at that time. And the goal was, as was put very plainly by the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, to make the people of Cuba suffer. They are responsible for the fact that the government is in place. We therefore have to make them suffer and starve, so that they'll throw out the government. It's a policy which is pretty consistent. It's being applied right now in Palestine. It was applied under the Iraqi sanctions, plot in Chile, and so on. It's savage.

as it ever was, the poor schmoes are the ones who take the brunt...

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