Fawaz Gerges, in an article in the Guardian, starts by talking about ‘international Law’ as though it is in any way meaningful. It is neither international nor law. If it were international it should have been applied to actions like the murder, rape and abduction of Israelis on Oct 7 by Hamas an Iranian proxy, or the indiscriminate rocketing of Israel civilians for over a year by Hezbollah, another Iranian proxy in Lebanon; but the Observer was strangely silent on these topics. If it were law it would have been debated and passed as a law by a democratically elected government, but it was not, it is merely a collection of decisions by a bunch of unauthorized lawyers.
He then suggests that Benjamin Netanyahu is conducting a siege and destruction of Gaza. Is he not aware that the Gazan army started it by the heinous unprovoked attack on innocent civilians? Is he not aware that 90% of Israelis are in support of the necessity to destroy Hamas, the terrorist government of Gaza? It is a united Israel that is fighting Gaza, not Netanyahu.
He continues to muddy the waters by talking of the illegality of preemptive strikes on Iran. Iran has been at war with Israel for years, any strike against Iran can hardly be described as preemptive.
Gerges continues to speculate that any attack by the US could escalate into a full blown conflict. As an Israeli I am under the impression that there is a full blown conflict already! He also fails to notice that the Ayatollah’s regime is impotent and getting weaker by the hour. It is currently incapable of doing serious damage to US assets or interfering with international trade. A US attack would probably be the final straw to break its back. Trump should go for it.
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