It took less than 24 hours after the US and Iran agreed to a ceasefire for Israel to remind the world of its barbaric addiction to slaughter, and how it believes – with good reason – it can act with total impunity and face zero consequences.
As part of the US-Iran deal to pause military attacks for two weeks pending broader negotiations, Hezbollah was informed it was also subject to the ceasefire. Its officials publicly announced they would abide by the ceasefire and stopped their attacks on Israel.
Israel’s response to this extraordinarily hard-fought and fragile agreement was to launch its biggest bombardment on Lebanon during the current war, killing over 250 people and injuring another 1,100. Most of the strikes were in civilian areas, including central Beirut, where Israel failed to issue evacuation orders.
There were two reasons Israel launched such a merciless offensive, dubbed “Eternal Darkness”. The first was simple petulance on the part of Benjamin Netanyahu, who was frozen out of the negotiations and as a result is facing ridicule on the international stage and in Israel.
The second was to remind us that it can invade, occupy and slaughter as many people as it wants, and the world will do nothing to stop them. What happens next will determine if that remains the case.
The world has continually made excuses for Israel’s depravity in Lebanon
Over the last few weeks, the Western media has adopted a particularly tortured and entirely false formulation to describe the genesis of the current conflict.
