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‘What Israel is doing in Lebanon is patently illegal’
Israeli political commentator Ori Goldberg has described the unprecedented
Israeli military assault on Lebanon as “a pyrotechnics show meant to demonstrate
Israel's effectiveness while ultimately demonstrating its despair”.
“The only entity that can stop it is the international community that will defend
Lebanon's sovereign rights, which have been violated for decades but are now al-
‘most nonexistent,” Goldberg told Al Jazeera.
He said Israeli PM Netanyahu has been exposed as “a liability” for Washington
due to the US-Israeli war on Iran, and Israel's leader is therefore “desperately try-
ing to show that it controls at least some of the game”.
“[Netanyahu] bet it all on Trump; he lost. He thought he could keep Trump on a
short leash. He messed that up. So now what he has is Lebanon, which has been
Israel's favourite stomping ground in terms of sovereignty violation and aggres-
sion generally,” Goldberg said.
“Really, now it’s up to the international community about whether it intervenes.”
Lebanon is sore loser Netanyahu's punch bag, and the World lets it happen...
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