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The Islamic State terrorist organization continued to write its tainted autobiography with the blood of the innocent people of Palmyra, a city of civilization and centuries-old history, as it unleashed an arsenal of barbarism, savagery and cruelty against humanity and civilization.

The whole thing took place within view and earshot of a weak international community and under the glare of the alleged international coalition to fight the Islamic State group. The scene calls to mind Ottoman and Zionist history and the massacres committed against the peoples of this region, especially the Armenians and Palestinians, who suffered the greatest share of genocidal crimes in the 20th century.

Western reactions to Islamic State group crimes in Palmyra seemed cold and were indifferent to the blood of some 400 women and children, slaughtered by the knives of this brutal terrorist organization. This has given the impression that the West and its proxies in the region want to allow the organization more time to accomplish what the last 70 years of Zionism could not — to divide the region into rival factions, drive a terrorist sectarian wedge between Syria and Iraq and consume the nations and peoples of the region, along with their armies, all because they are en route to doing away with the West’s evils.

During the nearly nine months that have passed since the declaration of war against the Islamic State group by an international consortium led by Washington and the launching of thousands of airstrikes against its positions and camps, the Islamic State group has seen increases in strength, numbers, equipment, financing and arms. Its patch of expansion and terrorism has widened geographically to include areas outside of Syria and Iraq. How then is it possible to explain this without suspecting Washington’s intentions, whose allies in Turkey are openly colluding with the Islamic State group and buying up their looted oil?

Facts and events have proven that whenever Washington intervenes somewhere, terrorism comes next. Whenever it withdraws from somewhere, it leaves behind the means to serve its interests and greed. Perhaps Iraq today in its present state, and Libya as well, stand as the strongest evidence of what we have been saying. Al-Qaida didn’t have any activities in Iraq or Libya before American aggression against these two countries. Nor did they have any significant presence in Syria before the crisis that was forged within it by Washington and its proxies in 2011.

Relying on America to combat the Islamic State group is like relying on Israel to abandon its policy of aggression and settlement. Put another way, having confidence in Washington and its efforts to solve the crisis in Syria peacefully is like having confidence in Saudi Arabia, which pretends to care about Yemen and restoring legitimacy there, while at the same time brings about its destruction and murders its children.