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* Alain Destexhe: Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), an Accomplice of Hamas?
* Lawrence Kadish: Strategy to End Iran's Aggression


** Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), an Accomplice of Hamas? ([link removed])
The neutrality and independence of the international organization is called into question in Gaza.
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by Alain Destexhe • December 19, 2023 at 5:00 am
* Since October 7, MSF, which is extremely active on X, has not made a single tweet denouncing the crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by Hamas on October 7, including the abduction of over 240 Israelis and others who have been held in Gaza as hostages, and the use of hospitals as barracks or human shields. MSF has constantly denounced Israel in virulent terms, but never the violations of humanitarian law committed by Hamas.
* The information provided by MSF, which often repeats without proof the words of its local Palestinian employees, should therefore be no more credible than that of Hamas.
* MSF must be irreproachable and neutral in its work. This is clearly not the case in Gaza.

Pictured: A vehicle belonging to Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) outside the gate of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on November 1, 2023. (Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images)

The public statements since October 7 of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) and its employees, on the ground in Gaza, show a systematic bias in favor of Hamas and hostility to Israel. MSF has failed in its humanitarian purpose and violated its own charter, which proclaims "assistance... irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions."

MSF has been present in the Gaza Strip since 1989. It now plays a leading role there, with at least 300 staff members, and works closely with local hospitals on a number of projects, either directly or indirectly with the Hamas "Ministry of Health".

MSF is often quoted by the international media and is seen by public opinion as an objective, neutral and independent observer of the conflict in the region. Because of the history of the organization, which in 1999 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the French and international media have blind faith in MSF when it comes to reporting what it states.

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** Strategy to End Iran's Aggression ([link removed])
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by Lawrence Kadish • December 19, 2023 at 4:00 am
Pictured: The Iran-flagged oil tanker Clavel, docked at Shahid Beheshti Port in Chabahar, Iran on February 25, 2019. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

History continues to offer lessons and strategy to Washington if only the Biden Administration had the wisdom to hear it.

Eighty years ago, the allies quickly realized that both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan fed their war machines on oil. In the Pacific, American submarines sank every enemy tanker on sight, choking off the crucial petroleum desperately needed by Japan. It would be part of a ground, naval and air strategy that ultimately brought surrender. In Europe, our air forces went after the refineries and the rail networks that were fueling the German military. At the end of that conflict, there were probably more disabled Tiger tanks from lack of fuel than from bazookas.

Let us be clear who today's enemy is in the Middle East.

Hamas may be carrying out the atrocities against Israeli civilians, but they are proxies of Iran.

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