A tale of two sieges: what have Yazidis in Iraq got that Palestinians in Gaza have not?
On the 14th August 2014 Stop the War published an article which said that the threat to the Yazidis on Mount Sinjar had never been.
That article has been deleted but you can find an archive of it here.
There was no hunting of the thousands to a trapped death. The water had not run out. The US air strikes that broke the siege and saved them were an illegitimate act of war.
It was, said Stop the War, the ‘false story’ of a ‘Yazidi crisis.’
And why had it not happened?
Because if it had happened, the contrast to the siege of Gaza would have been less acute. There is no other evidence in the Stop the War piece than that.
It is a strange view
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