Since the early 2000s, the gradual normalisation of state-sponsored assassination has lessened the stigma attached to the practice… Norms do not disappear simply because they are violated. They erode when violations become routine, when justificatory standards decline, and when adverse reactions diminish…
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced airstrikes would intensify across Iran, telling reporters on Wednesday that U.S. forces were delivering “death and destruction from the sky all day long.”
The neocons’ official doctrine is to push for more of the same, in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Ukraine, et.al. and lend full support to the current Israeli government’s policy against Iran
It’s not official policy, but Israeli leaders are allowing new ‘facts on the ground’ with new legislation making it easier for Israelis to purchase stolen Palestinian land.
“Before more children are burned alive or buried under rubble, this lawless war must end.” Experts on international law throughout the world have concluded that the unprovoked US-Israeli attack on Iran that began on Saturday is illegal.
US-Israel war on Iran: headlines from all over ■ US military has an End-Times problem ■ is this going to be another forever war? ■ hunger in Gaza ■ settler attacks, annexation intensify in West Bank ■ will CNN also fall to Israel?
“This is the most insane and absurd definition of an ‘imminent threat’ I have ever heard in my life,” says Mehdi Hasan at Zeteo News.
Netanyahu’s invocation bookends Israel’s current escalation of the Palestinian genocide and frames Israeli attacks as an act of self defense
The newspaper’s superficial critique of Trump’s Iran strategy comes after 47 years of continually vilifying the Islamic Republic
Part of an Israeli plan to damage Gulf countries and foment extremely consequential hostility to the U.S.