Gaza will be remembered as the moment the world looked away. Cuba is the test of whether it learned anything from this.

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Arnaud Bertrand

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Gaza will be remembered as the moment the world looked away. Cuba is the test of whether it learned anything from this. Both situations are terrifyingly similar, and there's little doubt that U.S. actions on Cuba were enabled by the world's lack of concrete response on Gaza. Look: In both cases it's collective punishment: a siege that cuts off essential supplies for an entire people. In both cases the perpetrator is acutely aware of the consequences of their own actions. Israel's Yoav Gallant (who, as a reminder, is wanted in The Hague) said "no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel." Here you have a sitting U.S. Congresswoman saying "no electricity, no food, no medicine, only blackout". The exact same language, almost word for word. In both cases the suffering of the people is cynically blamed on the victims, as if starving an entire people were justified if you disapprove of their leaders. Here Salazar blames the Cuban "regime", and in Gaza it was Hamas. In both cases it's a decades-old project: the Cuban embargo started in 1962 and the the blockade and occupation of Palestine dates back to 1967. In both cases it's done against the will of virtually the entire world: Israel is consistently the only country that votes with the U.S. at the UN to maintain the Cuba embargo. The U.S. was the only country that always vetoed ceasefire resolutions at the UN Security Council to shield Israel. It's a mutual protection pact for the collective punishment of a small besieged people. And both cases we're witnessing a terrifying escalation in brutality compared with an already very brutal past: starvation and the engineering of a humanitarian catastrophe on an entire people as a method of warfare. The playbook is the same, the language is the same, the intent is the same. The only thing that can be different this time is the world's response. Otherwise, we're effectively confirming that the U.S. has a license to genocide any nation that doesn't bend the knee.

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Feb 10

Do NOT travel to Cuba. There is no electricity, no food, and no medicine, only blackouts, hunger, and repression. Many airlines are canceling flights to and from the island. If you go, you may not be able to return for weeks, or longer. Don’t risk your safety. A regime in its x.com/cbsnews/status…

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