{"id":2058,"date":"2023-10-13T15:44:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T15:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2023-10-13T15:44:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T15:44:20","slug":"economics-professor-yanis-varoufakis-former-finance-minister-of-greece-condemns-killings-in-gaza-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/economics-professor-yanis-varoufakis-former-finance-minister-of-greece-condemns-killings-in-gaza-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics professor Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, condemns killings in Gaza Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With equal passion, the former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, condemned the killing in the Gaza Strip. He said: \u201cWhat I refuse to do is to join the ritualistic condemnation of one side whose very purpose is to take the side of a state cynically, intertemporally and brutally imposing Apartheid over many decades\u201d. Mr. Yanis added that was no different to 1981 when, as Anti-Apartheid demonstrators in London, the British media were pushing us to condemn the ANC for necklacing (a horrible practice indeed) &#8211; a condemnation sought by those who sought to undermine the Anti-Apartheid struggle at a time, lest we forget, Nelson Mandela was branded by the U.S., U.K. &amp; Israeli governments a terrorist\u201d.<br \/>\nObservers described the acts taking place right now as a disgrace, real terrorism, especially after Netanyahu said in a fiery speech, as Israel masses troops near the Gaza Strip, \u201cEvery Hamas member is a dead man,\u2019<br \/>\nIt is worth mentioning that the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 based on concerns about weapons of mass destruction and regime change, which turned out to be false, and yet 6 million Iraqis died, and the country is still in ruins. Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and Vietnam are\u00a0other\u00a0examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed With equal passion, the former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, condemned the killing in the Gaza Strip. He said: \u201cWhat I refuse to do is to join the ritualistic condemnation of one side whose very purpose is to take the side of a state cynically, intertemporally and brutally imposing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}