[Prefatory Note: This post is based on my responses to questions put by a Brazilian journalist working for CORREIO BRAZILIENSE, Rodrigo Craveiro, on October 16, 2024. The focus is on the regional spillover of violence as linked the Gaza Genocide, which itself is still ongoing after more than a year, arousing concerns from internationally reliable sources of starvation and disease prompting adverse reaction from Israel’s supporters. Major states in Europe are threatening Israel with an arms embargo if does not accept a ceasefire, while the US warms Israel that it will cease supplying Israel with weapons if does not facilitate an increase in the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Gaza within the next 30 days.]
1– Today US warned Israel to take urgent steps to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza within the next 30 days or face losing access to US weapons funding. How do you see that?
From the perspectives of international law, human rights, and the UN such a US move comes far too late, yet from a political perspective of ending the violence in Gaza and the expansion of the combat zone beyond Gaza a cutoff of US weapons support would be a small step in the welcome direction of peacemaking.
It is worrisome that the Gaza warning is framed in terms of the humanitarian catastrophe that continues to befall the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza without mention of a ceasefire or the spillover Israeli violence in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
And why a 30 day grace period, and not immediately in view of emergency realities in Gaza that threaten increasing famine and disease, concerns that have received confirmation in recent days from reliable and respected international expert sources.
From experience over the past year, it is too early to tell even whether the US warning to Israel will be implemented. The US Government has warned Israel in the past, most recently in relation to avoid attacking Rafah with its large number of sheltering Palestinians. Israel ignored the warning and nothing was done by Washington to withdraw US support.
Finally, improving the humanitarian situation is vague, and can be satisfied by vague and often unverified and contested self-serving assessments as with disruptions during an agreed pause in the violence to allow delivery of polio vaccines to Palestinians in Gaza.
2– Netanyahu said today Israel owes its existence to victory in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and not to the approval of its creation by the UN. What do you think about it?
Israel has always been guided by a realist belief that national security is a reflection of military hard power rather than be earning a law-abiding reputation. In that sense, Netanyahu is merely declaring what has been obvious at every stage of Israel’s existence and even during the pre-state period of the Zionist Movement. Only a fool in 2024 would deny that Israel puts its trust in weaponry rather than in legality or morality. By setting military approaches to security against legitimation by the UN as a distinct choice, Netanyahu and leaders before him, have consistently avoided a stance in which Israel’s leaders would contend that both their battlefield success and the UN acceptance as a legitimate state were instrumental is establishing Israel as a state back in 1948, a date long prior to finding an appropriate solution for Palestinian grievances and just aspirations, a great, rarely acknowledged UN failing.
In the recent year or so, Netanyahu along with other Israeli leaders and Western supporting governments have joined in defaming the UN as biased against Israel, even institutionally antisemitic. This is manifested in many ways, but none resented by Israel more than the alleged holding of Israel to standards higher than applicable in the treatment of all other UN members.
Critics of Israel’s approach to security and conflict resolution approach believe the opposite is true, that even at the UN Israel has been able to hide its crimes and expansionism behind thick clouds of obfuscation and geopolitical protection. Palestinians have a far stronger case against the UN due to its imposition back in 1947 of a partition of their country to achieve a two-state outcome without ever consulting the wishes of the resident majority Arab population, and then failing to secure Palestinian rights in the land allocated for their state, the extent of which was further diminished by Israeli military expansion. The UN has let the Palestinian people suffer despite their acceptance of responsibility as the successor to the British Mandate.
3– Hezbollah threatened today to carry out attacks in “all” Israel. Why do you think Israel is facing difficulties to defeat Hezbollah?
It is difficult to speculate on the motivations of Hezbollah, and hence their evident determination to withstand the Gaza-like onslaught that Israel threatened and is now enacting. It may be partly tied to the Israeli assassination of their longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, or to a sense of a sacred struggle in the spirit of jihad or to a collective Islamic response to Israel’s recourse to genocide. The support for Israel among the liberal democracies of the Global West is a somewhat analogous collective civilizational stance, although not portrayed as such, especially in the US. On neither side of this most destructive and dangerous encounter since the Cold War can behavior be explained by reference to traditional national interests alone.
Ever since the anti-colonial struggles for self-determination and against Western encroachment have been won by the militarily far weaker side, the realist equation of military superiority leading to political victory has lost its analytic power and explanatory force of how history evolves and is made. In light of this development, it should be no surprise that Israel has not managed to defeat Hezbollah as yet despite mounting a series of punishing assaults on its Lebanon base area. As the Gaza post-October 7 experience illustrates, the only way to overcome the commitment of a victimized people struggling for a liberating freedom is by engaging in genocidal operations comparable to how the various Western settler colonialist projects dealt with the resistance of native peoples.
Global Justice in the 21st Century 
An additional option re US delay: Netanyahu knows where the US skeletons are.
I leave a comment without much faith that it’s a will make a difference, let alone reach its intended source. But given the desperate nature of the situation facing Palestinians and Lebanese as a result of Israeli actions that are enabled by the US, every effort to halt Washington’s supply of weapons to Israel is a moral imperative, let alone a political one.
What is Washington’s interest in the killing of Palestinians and Lebanese which is current Israeli policy? What justification does President Biden have for US support for Israel’s policy of death and destruction, support without which such policies would be crippled?
We live in a world where the human consequences of such policies are evident for those unwilling to look away.
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Israel is a mad dog, used as PROXY of the West in the region to bring the region and its resources under full control of the west.
The evil British empire along with evil Americans and full cooperation of the genocidal Zionists, designed ‘Israel Project’ in WWI to erect Israel as a footstep in the occupied Palestine. Israel cannot survive for an hour without full support of the genocidal and christian West. The faggots in the US corrupt elite have been married into Jewish families, like Biden, Trump, Pelosi, and other criminals pose as ‘politicians’ who support this policy. Why is Germany supporting the genocide? All of them do because this is their project, including Russia,a who was part of the axis of EVIL in the creation of state of Israel in 1948.
It is very important for the population and civilized nation of the region to DESTROY Israel and remove the Western project against the region killing their genocidal ACTORS. This fight will be continued until the West stops its expansionist policy in the region.
Death to US/UK and its project Israel in the region against the interest of the indigenous population.
diffiicult to speculate on hizbullah motivations? look at amia- buenos aires, the schoolbus massacre helping assad. look at yourself mr falk.
Would you shut up zionist genocidal. Amia was a false flag by Mossad like 9/11 where was a FALSE Flag by US/Israel killing more than 3000 Americans to use the terror to go after Muslims by FAKE ‘war on Terror’, liar.
Since Oct 7, we have seen the true nature of the SAVAGES, US -Israel- UK where Israel as western proxy was has massacred more than 200,000 people, attacking Gaza, Lebanon, occupied Palestine, Syria, Iran, Iraq using savagery never seen in the history of the world, to re arrange the map of the region.
We want nothing, and nothing but total destruction of Israel and its genocidal population. Israel has NO right to exist. Israel is a western Project in the occupied Palestine where has been DEFEATED. They must go to where they came from, .now
Dear Professor Falk,
I hope you are doing well, that the change of season is going well for you, and that you are able to enjoy some change in nature.
I feel terrible that you have to go through these spiritual attacks against your person.
Also, if I recall correctly, the Soviet Union was not readily willing to go along with the plan to create the state of Israel. Others who favored it pushed them to vote for it, and they were most likely blackmailed into it. WW II was a Nazi war, and all were involved, and they practiced law and diplomacy of blackmail — just likely. You probably know much about this, and if you have time and energy to reflect on that.
I recently came across interesting interpretations and commentaries of the Islamic Scriptures that address what is happening or could be happening now within the Middle East / Palestinian Territories, and it made me wonder if that was the reason why Muslims of different regions are disengaged from what they should be doing to stop this war. While allowing prophecies to be fulfilled does not mean they should not be actively involved in stopping warfare and human suffering.
End Times prophesies are real things, and now I am very afraid that Israelis and their helpers are set to wipe out as much of the Population in Palestine and its Territories as they can and are allowed.
Can someone figure out what those Scriptures mean and stop acting as if the Restrainer of all evil (the Divine Spirit) has been removed from among them—or has departed from them?
Also, do not worry that Jews of the synagogue of the Satan are bashing you – remember what they did to the Old Testament Saints and the Prophets. In this day and time, they would do much worse things with their illegitimate children and wives — only if they could (and they do to the descendants of the Ancient Prophets).
I spent a lot of time at Liberty University — among Christians. Most Americans and American Christians are not really hateful and evil — they are just stupid.
They have a dumb spirit — they abuse Ancient and Apostolic Church Order, and that causes a Chaos in Satan for all of them — and their Zionist Jews. And, this is for real, and they do not even understand it what it is and what it does it for all of them — they are becoming wickedly stupid.
It is true that some of those people pointed out above are accursed and the hour of their death is accursed — and they are accursed on their death bead, and they are accursed in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and in the Name of I AM Himself. I am not kidding about this.
Satanic seals in humans are no fun, and doctrine of such things are much less fun, and Americans and their American and Zionist Jews are in such things. And, they have lured in Jews of the World into all of that deception — and leaders of the Nations and Governments, too.
Fascist regime has to be regulated and restrained — they are nothing else but the continuation of the Third Reich and its warfare / forces (both spiritual and natural). Continuation of the Third Reich. It is difficult to understand religious cults and how they continue and change throughout human continuation.
Obnoxious lay people are in unlawful and in deceptive interpretations of the Sacred Texts, and doctrines / foreign policies that they created after that.
Descendants of the Ancient Prophets will be able to understand this, sufficiently.
Also, I came across link below, you need to look at this — they are applying this on the civil population:
Inside an Israeli ‘General’s Plan’ to force evacuation from North Gaza | Watch
Thanks,
K.F.
Kata: Good to have your view of this period of dark skies. I agree with your emphasis on the Israeli current undertaking.