Israel is openly promising to commit war crimes in Lebanon after it repeatedly violated a ceasefire, which was already a total farce,

to begin with. The latest assault by Israel on southern Lebanon today has killed six Lebanese people.

Now Israel Katz is the current Defence Minister after the previous defence minister, Jove Gallant, a wanted man,

by virtue of the international criminal court's arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity,

was sacked for being too moderate. Now, he's declared that if the fictional ceasefire, as we'll

discuss, collapses, then Israel will no longer differentiate between Lebanon and Hezbollah.

He says, if the ceasefire collapses,

there will be no more exemption for the state of Lebanon. We will enforce the agreement with maximum impact and zero tolerance. If until now we have differentiated between Lebanon

and Hezbollah, that will no longer be the case. Well, to be clear, it's a deceit to suggest they've been making this distinction

already, having committed multiple war crimes and engaged in the mass slaughter of innocent civilians.

What they're talking about here is an even more murderous onslaught, which will inevitably

kill more civilians. And indeed, what they're doing here is saying either you take on fight Hezbollah,

i.e. either you have a violent civil war in Lebanon, which Lebanon has already gone through,

or we will come in and we will massacre you. That's the subtext. It's not even a subtext.

What the Israeli foreign minister is openly doing here is committing to war crimes. That's the subtext. It's not even a subtext. What the Israeli foreign minister

is openly doing here is committing to war crimes. He's saying the mass death and destruction

already unleashed by Israel will be escalated. War crimes are already being committed by Israel

in Lebanon. So what he's saying in terms of an escalation is just overtly saying far more obscene

war crimes. Now, given there

were about a million other public statements by Israeli leaders and officials committing

to perpetrating war crimes and the media has failed to frame its coverage around those statements,

let's not expect them to start doing so now. It is the Israeli state, which trashed a ceasefire

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