It's always good to start by asking the question, "Who started the fighting?" and "Who's in whose back yard?" The people over there (in Iran) are not in our back yard. We're in their back yard - relentlessly - supporting dictatorships, overthrowing regimes, backing Israel to the hilt, all kinds of civilians slaughtered. It was Israel and the United States who took a small, Islamic group offshoot from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt called Hamas in the early eighties and built it up and funded it to counteract the secular Palestine Liberation Organization with a religious group. Well, that obviously backfired. And the rise of ISIS can be attributed to the Bush-Cheney criminal invasion of Iraq, and even Hizbollah arose because we backed Israel's 1982 invasion of Southern Lebanon, killing a lot of Shi'ites who had no real stake in the Palestinian issue in the process. And the Lebanese army was too small to protect them. So, even including the mujahedeen in Afghanistan after the Soviets invaded that country (1979) we were behind bolstering and weaponizing them, so why are we creating our own enemies here? The bungling is staggering, and it's staggering into, I think, a clear description of the United States as a state terrorist, and Israel as a state terrorist. Yet, we only call resistance or other violent groups in the Middle East "terrorist." Where would you put the U.S. under the rubric of state terrorism and the same thing with Israel . . . Would you call them state terrorists?
-----Ralph Nader, March 28, 2026, The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
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