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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Netanyahu preaches to the world as if it is a basic human right to commit genocide</h1>
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by
<a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/6-author/ramona-wadi/">Ramona Wadi</a>- October 10, 2024<br></div>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1843727294289899886">promoted</a> on 8 October in his message to the Lebanese people.</p>
<p>“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!” <a href="https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1843727294289899886">added</a> the war criminal.</p>
<blockquote><p>And that’s an opportunity to save Lebanon?</p></blockquote>
<p>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.</p>
<p><b> </b><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241010-us-former-white-house-advisor-urges-israel-to-carpet-bomb-irish-peacekeepers-in-lebanon/"><b>US: former White House advisor urges Israel to ‘carpet bomb’ Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon</b></a></p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>Netanyahu’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f-IO0tZWJ8">speech</a>
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.</p>
<p>Netanyahu doesn’t employ impenetrable rhetoric, he just lies. And
this is apparently acceptable to the UN and the West’s “moral
standards”.</p>
<p>For Israel to exist, genocide must be committed, insist Netanyahu and the allies of the settler-colonial, <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210112-israel-is-apartheid-state-concludes-major-human-rights-group/">apartheid</a> state. Having basically endorsed Israel’s “right” to commit genocide, is it possible for Western leaders to sink any lower?</p>
<p><b> </b><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241008-no-matter-the-cost-things-that-the-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-taught-us-about-palestine-and-the-world/"><b>No matter the cost: Things that the Israeli genocide in Gaza taught us about Palestine and the world</b></a></p>
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