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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was recently filmed saying that Israel should extend its borders “bit by bit” to eventually include Damascus. Those filming him added that his “radical” vision included southern Lebanon where Israel is currently invading, parts of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt.
The concept includes the Golan Heights, which Israel already illegally occupies, and is part of “Greater Israel” which many extreme Zionist politicians advocate for, including Smotrich and other members of Netanyahu’s cabinet.
Stateside, a former White House advisor Matthew Brodsky urged Israel via tweet to carpet bomb and then drop napalm on Irish peacekeepers in South Lebanon.
Irish troops are part of UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon) and have been operating along the Blue Line at the Lebanon-Israel border since 2006. Recently, Israeli soldiers fired on UNIFIL positions occupied by the Irish with small arms and tank fire, injuring two of the Irish peacekeepers.
The UN has since confirmed that Israel pulled its forces back from the area where they fired from behind the Blue Line demarcated under UN Security Council Resolution 1701, perhaps the first sign in the 369 days of conflict that the Zionist regime in Tel Aviv has found a line they aren’t willing to cross.
“I am deeply concerned at the escalation of violence in Lebanon, and the increased activity by the Israeli Defence Forces (Israeli army) in the area of the Blue Line which divides Lebanon from Israel and the Golan Height,” Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said in a statement. “This is an unacceptable violation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701. In response, Irish personnel in their outpost are operating under what is known as level 3 which means they are to shelter in place and remain in bunkers”.
The IDF had issued evacuation orders directly to the UN peacekeepers, which it of course has no right to do—only the UN Security Council can give orders to UN peacekeeping missions.
In the wake of the refusal from the UN and Irish commanders, Brodsky, former Director of Policy at the Jewish Policy Center in Washington, posted a shocking tweet on X stating: “Israel should carpet bomb the Irish area and then drop napalm over it”.
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White House advisor Matthew Brodsky suspended from X after calling for Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon to be burned alive.
Not enough. Suspend him from the Whitehouse. pic.twitter.com/ZBWjMEv6Jw
— ADAM (@AdameMedia) October 9, 2024
X deleted the tweet and suspended his account for violating its guidelines of directly calling for violence. It included a map showing the deployment of Ireland’s peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.
Middle East Monitor reports that Brodsky’s responsibilities once included “briefing members of Congress, the Department of State, Department of Defence, and the National Security Council on Iran, Syria, and Palestinian-Israeli issues”.
“By any metric
International law and policy scholars have remarked humorously since the Biden Administration took power in Washington that the US had dreamt up an ad-hoc charter of international laws called the “rules-based international order,” something which seemed to usher forth from the mouths of spokesmen and cabinet members alike on a nearly hourly basis.
Professor Stephen Walt of the Kennedy School of Harvard University described the “RBIO” as “a job requirement for a top position in the US foreign policy apparatus”.
This article in the Leiden Journal of International Law points out that the use of the RBIO comes as a direct substitute for what one would assume should be “international law”. Many other nation-states and their leaders around the world have pointed this out: the US refuses to refer to international law, and instead to a vague, officially-lawless designation of an international “order” governed by “rules”.
The RBIO found its true day in the Sun after Russia invaded Ukraine, where US officials often stated that it is against the rules for a nation to forcibly change the borders of another nation, and invoked the RBIO as the rules which the invasion is against.
There’s no difference between Russia’s actions in Ukraine and Israeli action in Palestine, or in Smotrich’s starry-eyed vision of a march on Damascus.
Of course, such actions violate international law as established by the UN, but such actions would also violate the ad-hoc “rules” of the “international order” which are routinely not interchangeable. The US ignores international law whenever it wishes, such as when she invaded Iraq after failing to secure an order at the UN Sec. Council, and was denounced at the General Assembly. But the RBIO, which doesn’t exist as a codified treaty or legal theory, would not permit an attack on Damascus either. WaL
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PICTURED ABOVE: Former White House Advisor on Israel-Palestine issues, Matthew Brodsky. PC: retrieved from X
