Robert Scheer asks an important question: "Why Do So Few Speak Up for Gaza?" His focus is the lack of Western public outrage against Israeli military actions against Gaza —outrage that should have been apparent in newspapers and television long before the most recent spasm of bloodshed and destruction. When the wrong party won democratic elections in Gaza, democracy supporters in Tel Aviv and Washington responded with an economic embargo, supported by the US-subsidized socialist-dictatorship of Egypt. That particular act of war was extremely successful in starving and angering the already frustrated Palestinians who live in Gaza on $2 a … Continue reading Gaza and State Intellectuals