Impunity, Israel and Permanent War

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In this interview, looking at Israeli society in the context of the war(s) on Iran, Idan Landau argues that so long as the USA and Europe continue allowing Israel to act with impunity peace will not be possible.  He notes the limited information that Israelis see and, given they cannot block access to Iran as they have to Gaza, what does get through is always posed in terms of “existential threat to Israel”. In this way, we now have the Overwhelming Majority of  Israeli Jews (93%); Minority of Arabs (26%) Support Operation in Iran. 

Of course, the same is happening in Lebanon.  Landau argues that it is in the interest of the Israeli right to be at war, to have permanent enemies.  He notes that criticism of past wars was possible but no longer and that the only parliamentarians who are opposing them are from the Arab List parties.  The civilian deaths in Iran, if reported at all are always because the enemy used them as “human shields”.  “(A)s all human right organizations pointed out, the Gaza genocide has set a shocking new standard of indifference to civilian casualties: All targets are criminalized by association to your favorite Amalek (currently the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or IRGC), and we stopped bothering about substantiating this association with actual facts; declaring it so makes it so. In this context, one can watch civilian suffering in Iran with a level of detachment and blame it all on the IRGC”

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This article was originally published by Common Dreams on Tue 17 Mar 2026. Read the original here.