[news] Disturbing Parallels Between U.S. Hostility Towards Hamas & Sandinistas

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

"(T)urning Palestine into another Nicaragua is working. That was the intent from the moment Hamas was declared victorious in the Parliamentary Elections last January...For obvious reasons that (had) more to do with US strategic reasons than the welfare of the people of Nicaragua, the Sandinistas were labeled a ‘cancer’ that had to be extracted...Nicaragua was completely cut off, denied any form of aid and was forced to squander its resources to fight off Somoza’s former National Guard, renamed the Contras...The Palestinian case is, more or less, being handled the same way..."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4479