There will come a day when Israel will use its much vaunted right to defend itself, but it won’t be with weapons: it will be before the judges of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. It is now a nation that lives – and survives itself – perpetrating an endless war, whose crimes against humanity have the cadence of a daily bulletin. On Wednesday, a few hours into the truce between Iran and the USA from which the Netanyahu government was excluded from the table – Trump is trying to save face in front of the few remaining supporters -, the Zionist army tried to immediately blow up the agreement with a monstrous massacre in Lebanon: hundreds of bombs fell on Beirut, the Beqaa Valley, Mount Lebanon, Sidon and several villages in the south of the country, killing at least 254 people and injuring a thousand.

Netanyahu’s government and the endless war

The Netanyahu government has no interest in a ceasefire with Iran, also because the end of the war is seen as a defeat at home. In fact, it has already proved to be a failure for both Israel and the United States: the Pasdaran regime has shown a high capacity for resistance despite the Ayatollah and the highest positions of military power having been killed. Not only that: the Islamic Republic caused extensive damage to Israel, managing to reach enemy territory with dozens of missiles which repeatedly pierced the Iron Dome defense system (Tel Aviv and Haifa were the most affected cities). It also forced Trump to negotiate with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, creating a global economic crisis (for the West, massacres of civilians may be okay, but business is business) and repeatedly targeting the strategic infrastructures in the Gulf of the petrostates allied with the USA.

Bombings as a strategy

But bombing negotiations is the norm for the Zionist state. November 24, 2023, the day of the first truce in Gaza for the release of the hostages: after a few hours, the IDF opens fire on hundreds of Palestinians trying to return to their homes in the north of the Strip, killing two and wounding eleven (many were trying to recover their personal belongings). November 27, 2024, agreement with Hezbollah: France – which had acted as mediator – reports 52 Israeli violations in the first days, including bombings and killings. January 19, 2025, new truce with Hamas: on March 18, Israel begins air raids on the Strip, violating the agreements and killing over 400 people in one day. October 10, 2025, another truce for the now exhausted Strip, between bombings and famine: in February this year, there had already been 500 killings among Gazans by the IDF. And we could continue like this, ad infinitum: Israel signs agreements just to give some sops to its stars and stripes “sugar daddy”. His word, however, is worth less than nothing: even Iran knows this well, having been bombed twice in a year while sitting at the negotiating tables.

Lebanon: neighborhoods and villages razed to the ground by Israeli bombs

The “Eternal Darkness” of Israel

As admitted by Marco Rubio, Secretary of State of the Trump government, the United States was dragged into the conflict with Iran by its ally (so to speak) Israel, which decided to strike anyway despite the opposition of the American army, aware that soldiers and military assets would be led into a war of attrition (read “quagmire”), with their bases – a network of around 19 sites throughout the Middle East – transformed into easy targets for Iranian missiles; and so it happened.

After having started the war, now Israel does not want it to end: first of all in Lebanon, where the annexation of the south of the country has already begun with the demolitions of the native villages, while – with the carpet bombings immediately after the truce – it shows the world that it is not the ridiculous Trumpian government that dictates the law in the Middle East, but that of Netanyahu and his band of fanatical ministers. The latest carnage was called Operation “Eternal Darkness”; a very superfluous name, because that darkness has followed Israel since October three years ago and we have learned to know it, unfortunately. And it’s true: there’s no end in sight.