Imagine Israel, of all countries, crying to the UN, of all organizations, about a purported “flagrant violation of narional sovereignty, international law and Security Council resolutions.”
I laughed out loud when I read that. As if that isn’t exactly what Israel does virtually on a daily basis, and has done for decades now, and while thumbing their nose at the UN the entire time.
The best part is the UN charter clearly states that when a country is attacked, it has aright to self defense. Let’s watch Israel talk their way around that as they vindicate Iran and incriminate themselves.
One need not pretend something that is already factually accurate. This was a retaliation and direct response for Israel bombing Iran’s consulate in Syria on April 1. This is why Iran targeted and struck the Negev air force base ( which contains US F-35s used to bomb Gaza ) as that is the base from which that attack originated. This is also why Iran says it now considers the matter “concluded” and warned the US and Israel against further reprisals. Those are facts and not “pretending” so if you are going to “pretend” this isn’t true and try to distort the matter I’m not interested.
It was always thus, in this as in many other contexts. If phase 1 is “You can’t stop me, rules mean nothing, I will do as I please,” it’s a good bet that by phase 3 we’ll arrive at “OMG what is happening now is against the rules, won’t someone step in and make sure I come to no harm, we need justice.”
The percentage chance that the security council will do something about this is pretty much exactly 0.
The US vetoes anything the UN tries to do against whatever war-criminal shit Israel gets up to in any given year, the two of them often completely alone, but with the veto on the other foot, the other 99% of the world will I think be firmly on the side of simply telling Israel “my guy you must be joking with this.”
Iran has stated that they now consider the matter closed from their perspective, and the US is for the most part pretty careful about escalation management. The only real wild card is what Israel wants to do, which God only knows, but I do hold out hope that their first action being to involve the UN means they’re planning on a bunch of performative outrage and nothing else significant.
Israel is like the short guy in your group of friends always ready to brawl…
Because this short guy was beaten up 100 times in the past until they decided to strike back and win - and they are also doing everyone’s homework.
With a side hustle of trying to “not just win this fight, but also all future fights” (as put by Ender).
Wait according to Israeli accusations, how did Iran break international law? By using missles despite UN resolution 2231?
Last I checked (and IANAL) attacking military targets in reponse to military aggression is not in violation of international law.
An interesting immediate response. That would accomplish exactly nothing.
Hopefully this means they’re planning to take their L and whine a lot and not start a whole-region war
