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https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/no-israel-does-not-have-a-right-to-defend-itself-in-gaza-but-the-palestinians-do/

No, Israel does not have a right to defend itself in Gaza. But the Palestinians do. (Craig Mokhiber | Mondoweiss, 2024-09-10)
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“After every successive war crime and crime against humanity perpetrated by Israel in its current genocidal rampage, the single most common refrain of Western government officials (and of Western corporate media) is that ‘Israel has a right to defend itself.’

“No, it does not.”

“… the [World] Court found …, that Israel is the occupying power across the occupied Palestinian territory. Thus, Israel, as the occupying power, cannot claim self-defense as a justification for launching military attacks in Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights.“

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