Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Anthony McIntyre ☠ Israel's Nazi-like leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has taken to disdainfully mocking the concept of a concerned international community while continuing to flip the bird at the global institutions that supposedly underpin the international rules based order.

Not that he ever respected either concept or institution. Like Hitler before him, he sees in global institutions a road block or diversion which restrict his room for military aggression, territorial acquisition and regional hegemony. Such things, in the racist supremacist worldview, are to be neither respected nor revered, but ignored or swept aside.

Labelling the Iranians as criminals because they bombed a hospital or claiming to know the cost of war because his son had to postpone his wedding is undiluted effrontery, a statement to the international community that:

I am mocking you, treating you with utter contempt and derision when I tell you that my son's wedding is as horrific as the deaths of those queuing for food. You can do something about it but you won't because you are worthy of the contempt I hold you in. Weak, spineless, vacillating, without as much as a slither of the resilience and fortitude shown by the Palestinians who are being butchered daily by the world's most moral army and about whom you honestly do not give one flying fuck otherwise you would not be arming me so that I can kill them. So quit even pretending that you want to do something because you don't. Drop the charade. You are liars and charlatans, just like myself and Dopey Donald who is easier to play than tiddlywinks.

When a meme appeared titled Netanyahu's fury, in which he complains 'they bombed a hospital! That's our thing! They are copying us!', it captured better than any amount of pious chest beating and hand wringing from Europe's political establishment the criminal essence of Zionist hypocrisy.

Just consider the mockery in both Netanyahu statements: a postponed wedding is the cost of war. Seriously. If that was what the war cost Palestinians, we would hardly be gathering in West Street later this morning, seeing in a delayed marriage ceremony little other than an inconvenience that we are not willing to be inconvenienced by.

Chutzpah has been defined as someone who kills both their parents and then demands sympathy on the basis that they are orphans. Not hard to recognise Netanyahu in there.

As for hospitals, IDF Einsatzgruppen have destroyed most if not all of them in Gaza, ensuring that those fortunate to escape murder, but are maimed daily as they queue for food, have little recourse to treatment. A friend earlier this week succinctly identified current Israeli policy:

It's actually amazing. Genius level abhorrent nastiness that our dictionaries cannot even allow you to describe. Starve your occupied population then offer them food. When they've congregated in large numbers to get their food then open fire. No need to go out and look for victims.

Against such a backdrop we may wonder how an international regional body established as a foil against war has done virtually nothing when confronted by Israeli savagery.

Look no further than Ursula von der Leyen who hails from Germany, a country now supporting a second genocide. Unctuous Ursula is currently President of the European Commission.

With the onset of Gazacide in 2023 she supported the Israeli onslaught, alienating the Irish President Michael D Higgins who objected to the barbarism. This week she has once again lent her support to Israel's latest war crimes, on this occasion the supreme international crime of a war of aggression.

The Nuremberg tribunal, at which people like Netanyahu were tried for war crimes opined:

To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

Ursula von der Leyen took to blaming Iran and supported Israel's latest war, of which there have been many, claiming that regarding the Middle East, Iran “is the main source of regional instability . . . that Israel has the right to defend itself.” If this vaguely resembled the truth we would imagine that Iranian leaders would be sought by the International Criminal Court for war crimes rather than Israeli leaders. We are still seeing how Israel is defending itself after she brandished the same licence to kill at the start of the genocide.

Barry Andrews of Fianna Fail pointed out that ,” Netanyahu’s justification for the war on Iran “echoed President Bush’s justification for attacking Iraq in 2003”. He also said:

This crisis with Iran should not distract us from the continuing murderous assaults on Gaza and the West Bank . . . Now is the time for the EU to finally act.

Even more damning has been the searing blast directed von der Leyen's way by Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan:

What is she doing picking up the phone and speaking to a man who has an international arrest warrant out for him on war crimes? Did that come up at the phone call?
They’ve now targeted peacekeeping troops in Lebanon, they’re committing war crimes and genocide in Gaza, they have shot at EU officials and diplomats, and now they’re launching an attack on Iran.
So it’s very clear who the key actor for instability in the region is, and in this case, it’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel.
Her credibility is shot.

Netanyahu, von der Leyen, a villainous pair playing leading roles in their own horror movie: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the deuce of them.

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