[News] Netanyahu preaches to the world as if it is a basic human right to commit genocide

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Netanyahu preaches to the world as if it is a basic human right to commit
genocide
Middle East Monitor
by Ramona Wadi <https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/6-author/ramona-wadi/>-
October 10, 2024
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On the first anniversary of the cross-border incursion on 7 October 2023
and the start of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, all
that the UN can boast of can be summed up in one word: complicity. Western
countries have either provided Israel with weapons or endorsed the genocide
by reiterating Israel’s fabricated security and “self-defence” narrative.
If a colonial, occupying entity has the “right to self-defence”, what about
the people under occupation? According to the West and the UN, the
colonised Palestinian people deserve genocide punctured by rare
humanitarian pauses after which Israel is free to kill thousands more.

According to the West and the UN’s actions, it can now be passed off that
committing genocide is a basic human right. Which is exactly what Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promoted
<https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1843727294289899886> on 8 October in his
message to the Lebanese people.

“You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of
a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in
Gaza,” said Netanyahu, even as Lebanese people were being killed and
forcibly displaced, just as Palestinians are in Gaza. “Israel has a right
to defend itself, Israel also has a right to win! And Israel will win!”
added <https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1843727294289899886> the war criminal.

And that’s an opportunity to save Lebanon?

What exactly is a “right to win” when Israel is committing genocide? The
disproportionate nature of Israel’s military offensive is both grotesque
and already established. There is no such “right”, only a relentless
bombardment and targeting of Lebanese civilians and civilian infrastructure
because Israel enjoys the qualitative military edge in the region,
maintained by unlimited US arms supplies. Israel also benefits from
Europe’s blatant hypocrisy that chastises the regime as if it were an
unruly toddler, but does nothing else.

 *US: former White House advisor urges Israel to ‘carpet bomb’ Irish
peacekeepers in Lebanon*
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241010-us-former-white-house-advisor-urges-israel-to-carpet-bomb-irish-peacekeepers-in-lebanon/>

As Palestinians in Gaza continue to be slaughtered, the people of Lebanon
are being told in advance that they will suffer the same fate. Indeed, they
are already suffering the same fate. The same tactics honed in Gaza are
being applied in Lebanon under the guise of “targeting Hezbollah”.

“Free your country from Hezbollah,” Netanyahu told the Lebanese. But isn’t
that what Israel is supposed to be doing? And if Israel is not “freeing”
Lebanon from Hezbollah, then what is Israel doing in Lebanon? It is
unbelievable, by any genuine standards of human rights, that a national
leader can openly state his aims and then literally get away with murder.

Netanyahu’s speech <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f-IO0tZWJ8> at the UN
General Assembly blamed the Lebanese for Hezbollah’s existence; he invented
stories about missiles and rockets in garages and kitchens – just one
missile in each room – which is preposterous. Next, Lebanon is being
bombarded by Israel and the Lebanese are blamed for Israel’s aggression,
because according to Netanyahu, it is the Lebanese people who can end this
new genocide, when the reality is that only Israel and its accomplices in
the West are responsible for doing this.

Netanyahu doesn’t employ impenetrable rhetoric, he just lies. And this is
apparently acceptable to the UN and the West’s “moral standards”.

For Israel to exist, genocide must be committed, insist Netanyahu and the
allies of the settler-colonial, apartheid
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210112-israel-is-apartheid-state-concludes-major-human-rights-group/>
state. Having basically endorsed Israel’s “right” to commit genocide, is it
possible for Western leaders to sink any lower?

 *No matter the cost: Things that the Israeli genocide in Gaza taught us
about Palestine and the world*
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241008-no-matter-the-cost-things-that-the-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-taught-us-about-palestine-and-the-world/>
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