You may have read this, but my good friend Israel has bombed a sovereign nation again.
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Israel faces threats of retaliation after Wednesday's bombing on the Syrian-Lebanese border, with Russia and the Arab League describing it as a violation of Syria's sovereignty. Syria and Iran threatened to respond to the military intervention, which was widely ascribed to Israeli forces.
I think Israel has gone off the ledge to be honest. I don't think a direct attack garners them any support, especially a few weeks ago they were held in scrutiny over its refusal to sign the NPT, and its continual settlement of unrecognized occupied land.
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A spokesman for the Arab League said the bombing was a "glaring violation" of Syria's sovereignty. The "silence of the international community about Israel's bombing of Syrian sites in the past encouraged it to carry out the new aggression, taking advantage of political and security deterioration in Syria," Nabil al-Arabi, the league's head, said.
The Russian foreign ministry said: "If this information is confirmed, then we are dealing with unprovoked attacks on targets on the territory of a sovereign country, which blatantly violates the UN charter and is unacceptable, no matter the motives to justify it."
The Russian foreign ministry said: "If this information is confirmed, then we are dealing with unprovoked attacks on targets on the territory of a sovereign country, which blatantly violates the UN charter and is unacceptable, no matter the motives to justify it."
But this is what I find most interesting. It is the the hypocritical choice we in the west must make. Israel has preemptively struck a sovereign nation. Violating UN Charters, and Treaties Signed by Israel. We have been hypocritical over many things with Israel over the last 40 years. We always lean on the "But the Holocaust" crutch. It was bad ****, there was a time for mourning, but it should not be a get out of world court free card. We have been appeasing them for decades. How would Israel fare if the US stopped paying them money to provoke war, when they can spend that money at home...similarly how can mine?
We hold other nations to be accountable to their treaties, and obligations to law and civility. We sanction those who do not, we punish those who invade others. Do we now throw the principles of our free societies aside to support Israel once again, appease them another deliberate violation of UN Charters. Or is it time we let Israel stand alone and be accountable for its actions, like a grown up country. Hell we hold Palestine more accountable, and they aren't even a real country.