Netanyahu’s lethal bombs will turn Lebanon into another Gaza. He must be brought down now | Simon Tisdall
The truth is plainer than ever: the Israeli leader needs forever wars to keep himself in power. Innocent lives just don’t matter
Benjamin Netanyahu must be stopped. The horror unfolding in Lebanon is another crime, to add to all the others. Are Britain, the US, the UN and everyone else who supposedly cares about civilian lives, human rights and international law really going to look away while Israel’s out-of-control prime minister does it again? That shocking prospect beggars belief.
“Again” in this context means Netanyahu turning southern Lebanon, maybe the whole country, into a sort of second Gaza. More than 41,000 Gazan Palestinians, mostly civilians, have died since the 7 October Hamas atrocities. Nearly 500 people were killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon on Monday, including many children. Tens of thousands fled their homes. How many more innocents is this man going to kill before he’s out of office?
Simon Tisdall is the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator
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