Opinion: Europe is following the US into another disastrous war

In a column for Middle East Eye, researchers Hamdullah Baycar and Ali Bakir argue that UK and EU leaders' policy on Israel is "repeating many of the mistakes" from the past 20 years, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

They write: "Two decades after the 9/11 attacks on US soil, which ended with the disastrous invasion of two countries, Afghanistan and Iraq, costing the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and sending the region into turmoil that persists to this day, western states seem ready again to make more deliberate mistakes.

The mistakes European leaders are making this time around are remarkably similar to those of 20 years ago. First, they are again ignoring huge domestic anti-war protests and public demands for a ceasefire. Second, they are ignoring widespread public calls to stop their unconditional support for the US (and, today, for Israel)."

You can read the full opinion piece below. 

Opinion: Europe is following the US into another disastrous war