Ben-Gvir films the spectacle and administers the system. Nuremberg hanged Streicher for the propaganda and Pohl for the administration. Ben-Gvir is both. Washington funds his government. The master is in his cabinet. The court is in The Hague.
Trump's Board of Peace calls Hamas the obstacle to peace while Israel controls 60% of Gaza and kills daily. A framework requiring one side to disarm while the other expands is not a peace process. The occupation has a peace plan. The occupied are being asked to fund it.
Netanyahu attended a state dinner in Budapest under an active ICC arrest warrant. Hungary withdrew from the court. He flew home. The warrant is real. The enforcement is not. It is working as the powerful designed it to work. Eighty years of Jewish history makes that truth unbearable to confront.
Israel killed Hamas's last senior military commander in a residential building under an active ceasefire. 850 Palestinians dead since October. Strikes up 35 per cent since the Iran war paused. The word ceasefire has been doing a great deal of work in Gaza.
The Iran war did not arrive without a library. Every development since February 28 — the collapsing ceasefire, the Security Council vetoes, the Global South paying costs it did not vote for — was anticipated by books written long before the first strike.
Jonathan Pollard served 30 years in an American federal prison for selling the United States' most classified secrets to Israel. Israel granted him citizenship, lobbied for his release and sent Netanyahu when he landed. He announced he is running for the Knesset. Nobody in Washington said a word.
An Israeli naval vessel intercepted a European-flagged aid ship in international waters without legal basis. It was conducted anyway — because Israel has learned that the cost of violating international law in international waters is, for now, the price of a diplomatic protest.
Israel is not annexing the West Bank in a ceremony. It is annexing it in permits, bypass roads, settlement expansion and legal reclassification. The process is deliberate, incremental and designed to be complete before anyone formally objects. The annexation hides in plain sight.
Israel’s diplomatic isolation has reached a point unimaginable five years ago. European partners are suspending agreements. The ICJ has issued binding orders. The ICC prosecutor has sought arrest warrants. The architecture of impunity is intact — but the walls are visibly thinning.
Washington launched the US-Israel war on Iran without consulting a single ally and is now surprised the world will not follow. A superpower without allies is an island with a large military budget. The willingness to look away — once extended — does not return on request.
Itamar Ben-Gvir walked into the Knesset wearing a noose — a symbol with one precedent in Israeli legal history. The death penalty bill he championed targets Palestinians with discriminatory criteria. Democracy is not only elections. It is also equality before the law.
For decades, the United States shielded Israel from binding accountability at the ICJ and the ICC. That shield is cracking — not because Washington has changed its position, but because an increasing number of states are willing to act without it.
