The Stephen Lendman Blog<\/p>\n
From inception by slow-motion genocidal war on Palestinians, Israel became a regional menace, along with the presence of US-occupying forces.<\/p>\n
Today, ruling regimes of both countries, and their partners in high crimes against humanity, are an unparalleled global menace at home and abroad.<\/p>\n
In September at the UN General Assembly, Israeli PM Naftali Bennett waged rhetorical war on Iran \u2014 Big Lies and mass deception his weapons.<\/p>\n
Ignoring Israel\u2019s illegal stockpiles of nuclear, chemical, biological and other banned weapons, he falsely accused nonbelligerent, nonthreatening Iran of crossing \u201call red lines (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n
He lied accusing its leadership of seeking to dominate the Middle East through use of a \u201cnuclear umbrella (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n
Defying what\u2019s clear to the world community of nations, he falsely claimed that \u201cIran\u2019s (legitimate) nuclear program is at a critical point (sic),\u201d that it \u201cmade a major leap forward (sic),\u201d that it\u2019s \u201cviolating IAEA safeguard agreements (sic),\u201d that it\u2019s \u201csabotag(ing)\u2019 inspections (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n
Bennett even lies poorly, the more Big Lies told, the greater he disgraces himself, his regime, and apartheid Israel.<\/p>\n
When accusations are made about Iran or other invented enemies, no credible evidence is presented because none exists.<\/p>\n
Hollow accusations by him and his predecessors fell flat long ago.<\/p>\n
Undeterred, he was at it again days earlier.<\/p>\n
Inventing his own fantasy reality that\u2019s worlds apart from the real thing, he falsely claimed the apartheid Israel is \u201cfighting a very visible enemy, radical militant Islam (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n
He lied saying that (nonexistent) terror\u2026in Tehran seeks to destroy Israel (sic), dominate the world (sic), and drive it into a dark abyss (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n
He falsely called Israel the only regional country that \u201cprotects Christians (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n
He lied calling apartheid viciousness \u201cunited with Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n
He invented a fantasy \u201cnew dawn for Israel\u2019s standing in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n
Israeli president Herzog cited the so-called Abraham Accords Agreement.<\/p>\n
Unrelated to regional peace and stability, it\u2019s a path that Israel aims to use for co-opting other regional states with balkanizing and controlling them in mind.<\/p>\n
Established by Trump at a White House signing ceremony, it was reminiscent of the sham 1993 Oslo Accords.<\/p>\n
The agreement was unilateral surrender to Israel and the US-dominated West, a Palestinian Versailles.<\/p>\n
Everything promised them was abandoned straightaway.<\/p>\n
Daily misery is their lot instead. The US\/Western\/Israeli axis is an unparalleled menace to everyone seeking to breathe free from ruthless oppression.<\/p>\n
Last month, Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid defiantly said the Jewish state \u201creserves the right to act at any given moment and in any way\u201d for any invented reasons against invented adversaries.<\/p>\n
Israel displays its ugly face in countless ways daily.<\/p>\n
B\u2019Tselem highlighted the menace it represents.<\/p>\n
Saying \u201c(w)ords fail us, (it cited) horrors in (illegally blockaded) Gaza,\u201d along with war on its people \u201cgoing on for so many years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have reported on the blockade, the poverty, the wars,\u201d the crimes of war and against humanity against its long-suffering people.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re worsened by the world community largely turning a blind eye to unforgivable criminality for invented reasons.<\/p>\n
B\u2019Tselem reported about \u201clife without water, without electricity, without hope.\u201d<\/p>\n
It explained and documented \u201cwhat international law requires and what conscience dictates\u201d to no avail.<\/p>\n
It recalled \u201c11 days of incessant (terror-bombing) airstrikes on or near civilian homes\u201d last May.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith nowhere to run and no safe places to hide,\u201d mass slaughter of civilians followed.<\/p>\n
Thousands of others were injured.\u00a0 Thousands more lost their homes and possessions.<\/p>\n
What happened wasn\u2019t \u201ca mistake.\u201d It was ruthlessly planned and executed like earlier aggression on the Strip and its people.<\/p>\n
Official Israeli policy prioritizes mass civilian casualties, including, infants, young children, the elderly and infirm.<\/p>\n
B\u2019Tselem spoke to survivors of Israel\u2019s terror-bombing who lost loved ones and possessions.<\/p>\n
One of many accounts explained the following:<\/p>\n
Mu\u2019az Subuh said about 50 meters from his mother\u2019s house, he \u201cheard a very loud explosion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were clouds of smoke and dust, and (he) heard people shouting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe building (his) mother and brothers lived in had been bombed.\u201d<\/p>\n
He \u201ctried to get into the building, but people there stopped (him) because they were afraid of another strike.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey suggested (he) wait for the ambulance and the civil defense crew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey tried to reassure (him) and told (him) they\u2019d seen (his) brother \u2018Ali at the mosque and had prayed with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
He \u201cfelt on the verge of a nervous breakdown.\u201d<\/p>\n
He \u201cwas sure my family was dead. (He) saw the sixth and seventh floors had been completely demolished.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey looked like one floor. (He) lost all hope that anyone in (his) family would make it out alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSome neighbors went up to the apartment and came back down and told (him that his) brothers Baraa and \u2018Ali and \u2018Ali\u2019s wife Nasmah were alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
They couldn\u2019t find his mother brother.<\/p>\n
They said she was injured, \u201con the way to hospital\u201d so he went there.<\/p>\n
When arrived, he \u201cdiscovered she\u2019d been killed.\u201d<\/p>\n
He \u201chugged her, kissed her body, and screamed and shouted, \u201cI told you to come to our house! Why didn\u2019t you listen to me?!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen they put his mother in the morgue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Missiles fired at Gazans harvesting peaches killed four farmers. The following testimony explained what happened:<\/p>\n
\u2018Imad Jneid said he \u201cheard a loud explosion and felt a sharp pain in my left hand and stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n
He \u201ccalled out for someone to help\u201d when saw others lying on the ground motionless.<\/p>\n
He \u201ctried to get up and go to them, but only managed to walk a few meters before (he) fell.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c(A)nother missile landed. (He) tried to get up but fell again, so (he) crawled on.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen a third missile landed next to (him). (He)kept crawling until I got to the building, looked down and saw (he) was bleeding.<\/p>\n
He was taken to a hospital and \u201chad surgery on (his) stomach\u201d to remove shrapnel.<\/p>\n
Hospitalized for nine days, he was then discharged.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey bombed us even though we\u2019re civilians and farmers who work for our living, in broad daylight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very sad about my friends who died. They were killed while working to support their families.\u201d<\/p>\n
B\u2019Tselem took other testimonies from survivors of Israeli terror.<\/p>\n
Recounting similar horror stories, they reflect how Israeli ruthlessness operates \u2014 with impunity because the world community does nothing to hold responsible individuals accountable for their high crimes.<\/p>\n