Afrasianet - The media denounced the West's lack of reaction to Israel's actions and the killing of tens of thousands of civilians, stressing that this goes beyond the double standards that have been denounced for months and is in fact active complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by this rogue state.

The speed and violence of the Beirut bombings create a kind of astonishment in Lebanon and in the West, until the series of unknown and unburied dead civilians, who fell under Israeli strikes, had a narcotic effect.

Historian Vincent Lemaire says, "We don't know the stories and faces of the dead in Gaza. At least 40,000 dead, including at least 30,000 women and children in Gaza, are innocent, of course. These figures practically have the power to anesthetize us, and they are no longer significant today."

To bring the picture closer, Israel has been committing for a year, yet no Western leader rushed to Palestine or Beirut to express horror at this massacre, and no Western head of state or government assured the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples of their full support in the face of attacks.

Thus , the fact remains that the Israeli government is responsible on average for the deaths of more than 1,200 people every week over the past year, and that Western leaders are responsible for political and military support for this endless massacre that does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.

This Israeli-led war – a war of deterrence but also revenge and causing rivers of blood to flow at the hands of Western and above all American leaders, from President Joe Biden and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, they are all tainted because they share responsibilities with the criminals who rule Israel.

Not only do the dead and Israeli prisoners have names, faces and stories, unlike rotting corpses in mass graves in Gaza, buried under the rubble of the southern suburbs, or held in hard-to-reach Negev prisons, but the Palestinian or Lebanese body no longer

has any value in the eyes of Israelis in particular, and Westerners in general.

Unexaggerated estimates revealed that there are about 120,000 deaths in Gaza, meaning that we will already have about 100 Palestinian martyrs for one Israeli death since October 7, 2023, which are staggering numbers, compared to a ratio of 7:1 during the first intifada and 3:1 during the second intifada.

The West is responsible for wiping out Lebanese and Palestinian civilians in more ways than one, the first of which is providing the weapons and funds necessary for this massacre, as the Israeli government was pleased to announce new aid worth $ 8.7 billion from the American ally at a time when it was striking Beirut, and the United States claims that it was not aware of this.

The second is the refusal to recognize a Palestinian state, with rare exceptions such as Norway, Ireland and Spain, knowing that the Middle East was shaken after the assassination of the Hezbollah leader, which prompted the Iranian move to strike Israel.

Finally, by letting the West, its ally Israel, lock itself in the pernicious logic that justifies confusing security with revenge, who can believe that the Israeli government is not responsible for the fate of the detainees still alive in Gaza, having derailed several rounds of negotiations and eliminated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who supervised them in a less intransigent way than the line behind him Yahya Sinwar? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's tactical victory should not hide the fact that it is based on a foreseeable catastrophe, and as Haaretz editor-in-chief Aluf Bent put it, Israel "before turning Lebanon into another Gaza" must realize that

there is "a way other than unbridled force to repatriate detainees from Gaza and northerners."

The devastation in the Gaza Strip and tens of thousands of dead, amputees, wounded and orphans there, which constitutes fertile ground for future attacks, and the IDF's operation against Hezbollah is so large and effective that it is impossible to say that Iran will not respond to Israel, or to a new status quo in favor of Israel, or to a profound reconfiguration of the political and even geographical maps of the entire region.

Israel's targeted assassinations have often brought more determined people to the leadership of the organizations fighting it, both within Hezbollah and with the election of Yahya Sinwar as Hamas leader this summer.

Sinwar achieved a strategic victory by storming southern Israel amid complete intelligence blindness, and a political victory because he largely succeeded in destroying what he could destroy from Israel, which is ultimately an ideological victory by reformulating the Palestinian cause into a new logic.

If the world thinks today of the logic of former US President George W. Bush or Netanyahu, it can only see (the world) according to the axis of good and the axis of evil, but if we still believe that the force of law can overcome the right of force, it is urgent to restrain the criminal vengeful arm that operates outside what was called international law!!