Even war has rules – The Guardian
JVL Introduction
A new editorial from The Guardian expresses succinctly what we and many other commentators have been shouting for months: that Israel’s plan for Gaza “is a programme of civic annihilation”.
The paper says it’s not just Gaza’s infrastructure that is collapsing, “It is the principle that even war has rules. When those rules are waived for allies, no one is safe.”
Commenting on Israel’s latest transgressions, the editorial says:
By shielding Israel from accountability in Gaza, and now endorsing its illegal strike on Iran, western governments are not merely complicit – they are dismantling the legal order they claim to defend.
It’s becoming increasingly common, since Israel broke the Gaza ceasefire and set out to simultaneously starve and massacre defenceless Palestinians in droves, for liberal media and politicians to recoil from their erstwhile ally. Dare we hope that recognition of the danger posed to us all by shredding post-WWII international norms might at last lead to sanctions on the rogue state? It seems unlikely while the shredder is being deployed enthusiastically by the occupant of the White House.
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This article was originally published by The Guardian on Tue 17 Jun 2025. Read the original here.
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Bit rich coming from the Guardian who have spent many many long months prioritising Israel over Gaza and the West Bank, framing the narrative using the Israeli propaganda machine, publishing Freedland’s anti Palestinian rants early on (he has tempered his words recently), and generally failing to condemn what we all saw happening -the genocide. Katherine Viner has been totally neglectful of her duty, so irresponsible and the Guardian has betrayed all the values that it was built . It is too late for me to consider their late in the day ‘truths’. Not quite as bad as the BBC News, they are nonetheless treacherous and in that sense complicit in failing to help put pressure on our Government and persuade our populace of the evil that Israel has done.
I stopped my subscription to the Guardian possibly 2 years ago for its anti-Palestinian, pro-Zionist reporting. Forgive me if I cannot take seriously its crocodile tears over atrocities in Gaza.