“How can a zone be safe in a war zone if it is only unilaterally decided by one part of the conflict?” asked Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA); “It can only promote the false feeling that it will be safe.” Furthermore, on several occasions, Israel has bombed al-Mawasi, the area it says is safe.
On Feb. 20, Israel attacked a shelter operated by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, killing two family members of the organisation’s staff.
On May 13, an international U.N. staff member was killed after the Israeli army opened fire on a U.N. vehicle, one of the nearly 200 U.N. workers killed in Gaza in addition to the targeted assassination of aid workers.
[On May 26, an Israeli airstrike in Rafah killed at least 45 civilians, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now tries to claim was a “tragic mistake.” The attack, which burned mostly women and children alive, took place two days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop its Rafah attack.]
Source: Vijay Prashad: Three Evils
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Last month Israel’s IDF bombed and destroyed the Iranian embassy in Damascus that killed, among others, two senior Iranian generals. Then, Israel brazenly warned Iran against retaliating, which U.S./Canadian/British headlines frequently referenced as though Iran’s retaliation would be considered the first strike [WTF?!].
This to me reveals a great yet misplaced sense of entitlement by the Israeli state [not to mention that of the U.S. via its own morally corrupt foreign policy].
It’s as though it feels it can claim it was being proactive in its militarily unprovoked killings in another country of Iranians [or other foreign nationals] it deems a threat, and its suspicions should suffice as justification. It doesn’t.
Putin’s Russia is similarly hypocritical towards the Ukraine when the latter’s forces dare to strike back against Russia’s deliberate targeting and killing of civilians and destruction of infrastructure with barrages of missiles or drones.
From his own words, Putin seems genuinely astonished and angry, as though the Ukraine really has no right to self-defense!
And Russia will absurdly justify its first-strike attacks against Ukrainian civilians as a necessity of ‘de-nazifying’ their democratically elected government. I say, first ‘de-nazify’ Russia’s Kremlin and especially its presidency!
It all reminds me of the high-school bully with a grand sense of entitlement and whose concept of his fair share was always three-quarters of the pie.
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