Israel is a suicidal state

 

 "Israel continues its attacks - it kills about 50-70 people in the Gaza Strip every day, the absolute majority of them civilians. Last Wednesday, the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip reported that at least 41,689 people have already been killed and 96,625 injured. More than ten thousand corpses are still lying unexhumed under the ruins, almost all of the residents of the Strip - about 2.2 million - were forced to leave their homes and suffer from a lack of food and clean water. In the West Bank, Israeli forces and settlers killed more than 600 , Palestinians, bulldozed entire neighborhoods.About ten thousand Palestinians, many unconvicted, are held in Israeli prisons, where they are constantly humiliated and often tortured.

 

 Israel's latest target is Lebanon and Hezbollah. Israel says its goal is to destroy Hezbollah's ability to attack Israeli settlements in the country's north, allowing evacuated Israelis to return to their homes. In an effort to show solidarity with the people of Gaza and pressure Israel to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas, Hezbollah began shelling Israeli military targets, avoiding civilian casualties and an escalation on the Lebanese-Israeli border. The hope did not materialize, Israel struck southern Lebanon frequently, carrying out 80% of the attacks along the border, killing several hundred people and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.

 

 Iran added fuel to the fire by attacking Israel with missiles. Predictably, almost all the missiles were shot down, with almost no damage or casualties, but Israel promised "stern consequences" for Iran. We are still waiting. Most Western countries expressed outrage and pledged support for the Jewish state. Israel launched a massive air campaign that did not bypass the capital Beirut.

 

 More than 1,300 people were killed, 6,000 were injured, and more than 1.2 million were injured. people have been forced to leave their homes, many sleeping on the streets of Beirut or fleeing to Syria. This brutal attack turns Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that "we are not at war with you Lebanese, we are at war with Hezbollah" into a lie. Israeli forces have launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, a country often devastated by Israel and part of which it occupied from 1982-2000.

 

 Iran struck Israel first, but the Israelis spared no effort to provoke an attack. In late July, they killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who had come to Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran's new president. Iran would have been completely humiliated if it had not promised to retaliate in the long run. The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah could not go unanswered either, which the Israelis understood very well. Killing the leaders of the organizations with which the negotiations are conducted is a clear sign that instead of negotiating honestly and hoping for an agreement, the aim is to sabotage the negotiations and ensure their failure.

 

 In mid-September, Israel detonated thousands of pagers and radios, killing at least 37 people, including several children, and injuring nearly 3,000. The attack demonstrated great ingenuity, highly developed espionage and technological skills. However, according to one of the leading experts on the morality of war, Michael Walzer, the operation was probably a war crime, a terrorist attack by a country that has consistently condemned terrorist attacks against its own citizens. If the devices had been used by Hezbollah fighters in the ongoing Israeli-Hezbollah battles, their destruction could be justified. However, the attacks were carried out when the fighters were not mobilized and not participating in military operations, but were at home with their families, sitting in cafes, shopping in markets, so when they were among the civilian population.

 

 The United States, France and several allies have called for an immediate 21-day ceasefire on the Israeli-Lebanon border to allow the two countries to negotiate a possible diplomatic solution to the conflict. Although Israel participated in the talks and appeared to agree to a cease-fire, Netanyahu rejected the proposal, saying Israel would fight until all of its goals were achieved.

 

 As usual, the US once again acquiesced to Israel's provocative behavior, although it and its allies were publicly humiliated when Israel contemptuously rejected their offer. Israel's response was a slap in the face to the international community, a clear mockery of its efforts to regulate the conflict. Such behavior undermines the prestige of international organizations, clearly shows their powerlessness, and encourages other hooligan states to act similarly. If Israel can wage war in defiance of international norms, kill more than 30,000 people. civilian population in less than a year, so why shouldn't any other country do the same if they are confident they can do it? If ever there was a norms-based international order, it is Israel is vigorously destroying it with the help of the United States, which has seen itself as the guardian of this order. Washington provides Israel with weapons such as 2,000-pound bombs that kill or injure people more than 1,000 feet from the center of the blast, thus contributing to war crimes.

 

 US indifference to supplying arms to Israel is hard to understand. Earlier last year, the president's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said that Iran had chosen "to follow a path of using its weapons to kill civilians in Ukraine and to try to plunge its cities into cold and darkness." These actions may put Iran in a position to contribute to widespread war crimes."

 

 The inconsistency is glaring, something Mr Sullivan and his team need to understand. And if in some magical way he can close his eyes and not see the reality, then the countries of the so-called Global South will not be so blind and indifferent to the hypocrisy and indifference of the West.

 

 The general mood was revealed on September 18. The adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of a non-binding resolution demanding that Israel end its "illegal presence" in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank within a year, withdraw all Israeli forces and evacuate settlers from the occupied Palestinian territories. 124 countries supported the resolution, 14 voted against and 43 abstained. Changing attitudes were also shown by Lithuania's decision to abstain, rather than follow the example of the USA and vote against.

 

 There is no need to emphasize such resolutions, they do not oblige the countries voting for them to take concrete actions, they are often ignored. But the tendency of Western countries to justify Israel's war crimes, to treat their friends differently than their opponents, reduces the "soft power" of the West and strengthens the growing cynicism towards international norms and institutions.

 

 The West's reluctance to name Israel's malign behavior allows other states to deflect criticism of its aggressive actions and present them as acceptable."

 

The Palestinian attack has shown that despite heavy bombs, Israel is vulnerable. Therefore, being a tiny island in the sea of ​​Muslim states, terrorist Israel can no longer survive, because its neighbors no longer fear Israel.