A much younger Benjamin Netanyahu once defined ‘terrorism’ as “the murder, maiming and menacing of civilians for political goals.”
Speaking in 1986 about his book ‘Terrorism – How the West Can Win,’ the then-36-year-old Permanent Israeli Ambassador to the UN added that those who use terrorism as part of their policy end up becoming “masters of terrorist states.”
Now 74, Netanyahu has overseen a brutal five-month campaign to purportedly eliminate H*m*s in Gaza, killing over 30,000 Palestinians, 21,000 of them women and children. The International Court of Justice ruled in a case brought by South Africa against Israel that Tel Aviv’s actions in Gaza are plausibly genocidal. The blockade of Gaza – beginning in 2007 and intensified since October 7th, 2023 – has harmed thousands of innocent children through hunger and lack of medicine. And the World Food Programme is warning that Gazans are now on the brink of famine.
Has Prime Minister Netanyahu – and the State of Israel – become an example of his own, almost-40-year-old definition of ‘terrorism’?
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