[News] The World at War

[The Fits]

Amen. But we still pretend all lives are equal.

 

[The Fits]

Both their governments are f***ing mad basatrds. We can pretend we have skin in this one and pretend we are at risk, and pretend we can do anything about those mentalists OR we can just let them get on with it like any other sensible country will do.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Both their governments are f***ing mad basatrds. We can pretend we have skin in this one and pretend we are at risk, and pretend we can do anything about those mentalists OR we can just let them get on with it like any other sensible country will do.

The ordinary people of both countries deserve far far better. Left to their own devices they'd probably get along just fine, like most people anywhere. They've got far more common ground than they have differences

 

[Surf's Up]

And it's all in the name of God

 

[Zeberdi]

Haven't we been here before? When Blair lied to the British people that Iraq had WMDs as an excuse for us to invade the country (as instructed by the US) to enforce regime change. And then......it was discovered Iraq didn't have WMDs at all!

I'm not saying Iran doesn't have WMDs, just urging caution that we shouldn't necessarily accept the word of politicians.

Of course we have already seen Starmer licking round Trump; he will do whatever Trump tells him to do. Anybody still trusting Trump?

I think history may well look back and say this is an illegal attack too - that there’s no mandate under Article 51 for Israel’s arguments of ‘self-defence’ as a reason to attack Iran at this time.

Is Israel’s Use of Force Against Iran Justified by Self-Defence?

This morning, Israel launched a major military operation against Iran targeting its nuclear programme, including facilities, individual scientists and military leadership. In this post, I will provide a quick, preliminary analysis of the legality of Israel’s use of force against Iran as a...

www.ejiltalk.org

 

[armchairclubber]

I think history may well look back and say this is an illegal attack too - that there’s no mandate under Article 51 for Israel’s arguments of ‘self-defence’ as a reason to attack Iran at this time.

Is Israel’s Use of Force Against Iran Justified by Self-Defence?

This morning, Israel launched a major military operation against Iran targeting its nuclear programme, including facilities, individual scientists and military leadership. In this post, I will provide a quick, preliminary analysis of the legality of Israel’s use of force against Iran as a...

www.ejiltalk.org

Do you think it's possible that history may look back on this Labour Governments continued arming of Israel and other supportive actions as well as its lack of sanctions against Israel and find them illegal also? (as in defiance of the ICJ ruling)