ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
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Netanyahu’s provocations are a desperate and doomed strategy
By trying to appease his far-right coalition partners and their desire for all-out religious war on what is left of Palestine, Netanyahu is provoking an armed uprising in the West Bank, writes RAMZY BAROUD
IDF soldiers stand guard as Jewish settlers rebuild the previously illegal settlement of Homesh in the West Bank
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AFTER signing a military decree on May 18, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh settlement located in the northern occupied West Bank, the Israeli government has informed the US Biden administration that it will not turn the area into a new settlement.
The latter revelation was reported by Axios on May 23. This contradiction is hardly surprising. While Israel’s far-right ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, know precisely what they want, Netanyahu is trying to perform an impossible political act: he wants to fulfil all the wishes of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, but without veering off from the US political agenda in the Middle East, and without creating the circumstances that could eventually topple the Palestinian Authority.
Moreover, Netanyahu wants to normalise with Arab governments, while continuing to colonise Palestine, expand settlements and have complete control over Al-Aqsa Mosque and other Palestinian Muslim and Christian holy shrines.
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