Jerusalem bombed

"If you want proof that Iran endangers the entire world (...), it has attacked a civilian area with weapons capable of mass murder." This was said by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Bibi Netanyahu, standing in front of a residential area in the Israeli city of Arad, which suffered an Iranian missile attack. This isn't about painting any Manichean picture in which the ayatollahs' regime appears "good," because it's a group of vicious beasts who mix ultranationalism and religious fundamentalism with unbridled and pathological greed: in this sense, it's no different from the governments they preside over. Someone will object that there is a fundamental difference, and that is that the Trump and Netanyahu governments are democratic, while the government now led by Mukhta Khamenei is a dictatorship. True, and this is precisely the tragedy: that certain rulers use democracy, and the legitimacy of the ballot box, to act like the most indecent dictatorship.

To his outstanding legal issues in his own country, Netanyahu should soon add a formal indictment before international courts as a war criminal and the political author of the ongoing mass murder—the genocide—against the Palestinian population. Regarding the new war in the Middle East, it was his government that attacked Iran when there was no justification for doing so, illegally and with the sole support of a zombie-like United States, mired in the authoritarian and imperialist drift of Trump and his undesirable cronies. It is also the far-right government presided over by Netanyahu that decided to enter Lebanon, breaking and defying international law and order with the flimsy excuse of eliminating Hezbollah (just as in Palestine the supposed aim is to eliminate Hamas). While Trump speculates and manipulates the markets and oil prices with his constant statements and counter-statements, even pretending to have ongoing negotiations that the other side denies exist, it becomes increasingly clear that the US has lost control of the situation, and that Israel is literally waging war on its own. This time, however, Netanyahu has found in Iran a more powerful enemy than he is used to facing. More powerful, as unreliable, and as heavily armed as his own government. Jerusalem liberated It is Torquato Tasso's Renaissance epic poem that recounts the fall of Jerusalem during the First Crusade; one of the many times the holy city has been attacked throughout the centuries. Now we must speak of Jerusalem being bombed, while Israel's Finance Minister, the far-right settler Bezalel Smotrich, openly declares that Israel's new border with Lebanon should be the Litani River, which means the invasion and occupation of nearly ten percent of Lebanese territory. Who is endangering the entire world?