This was Germany today: police brutally beating up peaceful protesters against genocide in Gaza.
Imagine destroying your own democracy so that another country can continue to commit genocide.
Palestinian man walks calmly in Hebron with his arms raised. The Israeli soldiers shoots him in the back.
This happens all the time for a simple reason: The impunity the US & Europe provide Israel not only enables this, it encourages the steady increase of Israeli war crimes.
American doctor in Gaza describes Israel's killing spree as a "perverted squid game."
He describes how the injury pattern suddenly changed, from patients coming in with wounds from bombs, to "calculated single-shot wounds designed to kill."
US taxpayers are financing this.
Israel is openly planning to force Palestinians into "camps", while the West goes on about Israel's "right to defend itself."
Everything that international law was designed to prevent is happening with the active approval of the key states that helped establish the law.
I remember when the Rome Statute was adopted in 1998. It was celebrated across Europe as a major milestone of civilization.
Today, Europe has sacrificed the civilizational achievement of the ICC to protect Netanyahu as he commits genocide in Gaza.
Here he is flying over Greece, Italy & France in violation of their obligations to the ICC.
A key point overlooked in the story about Israeli officials calling the cell phones of senior Iranian generals and urging them to record messages declaring their surrender lest Israel kill them and their wives and children (!) is that none of them appear to have done so.
The calls occurred only two hours into the war, after some of Iran's top generals had been killed. This was the moment in which Iran was in disarray, having been completely taken off guard. It was probably a moment when many of them feared that the regime was actually on the verge of collapse.
About twenty calls similar to the one below were made. The generals were given twelve hours to record surrender videos and send them to Israeli officials, who would then make them public.
Yet, not a single surrender video appears to have been made, despite the threat Israel made about killing the children of the generals. Had they been made, Israel would surely have circulated them to spread panic within the state apparatus and inspire ordinary Iranians to rise against the regime.
This suggests that the resilience of the Iranian system may be stronger than Israel and the US had presumed, particularly since the recordings are from a moment when the regime truly appears to have been in a state of disarray, if not panic.
This may also provide a hint to the Trump administration regarding Tehran's ability to resist pressures to force Iran to surrender its enrichment program.
If there was any doubt that Israel tried to kill Trump's diplomacy, this action should remove all doubt:
Israel tried to assassinate the person spearheading the committee handling the nuclear talks, Ali Shamkhani. Israel bombed his house, Shamkhani is alive but hospitalized.
Apparently, Israeli soldiers opened fire on EU ambassadors visiting Jenin, the West Bank.
ON EU AMBASSADORS.
Ask yourself, would this have happened had the US/EU themselves not given Israel complete carte blanche and imposed zero costs for its endless war crimes?
You know how little support you have and how weak your case is when you have to go to these arguably unconditional lengths to stop opposition to your war crimes.
If Israel had a case, then none of this would have been deemed necessary...
