
Jonathan Cook
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Writer, journalist, self-appointed media critic. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism
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The claim that Israel is "defending itself" in attacking Iran ā promoted by France, Germany, Britain, the European Union, the G7 and the US ā should be understood as a further assault on the foundational principles of international law. The assertion is premised on the idea that

Israelās pretexts for its war of aggression on Iran are a moving target ā hard to grapple with because they keep changing. If Netanyahu started by touting an implausible claim that Iranās nuclear programme was an imminent threat, he soon shifted to arguing that Israelās war of













