Enduring Israeli propaganda myths

July 1, 2025

An excellent review by Jack. A couple of Israeli standard attempts to justify its abominations, however, need to be put to bed clearly and accurately. The first is that Israel has a “right to exist”. Under international law, no country has the right to exist. There is nothing in international law that says so. What international law does is to give a “people” a right to exist. Countries just exist at any one time and may not have existed in the past and may not exist in the future as international borders change constantly.

Secondly Israel, in the case of Gaza, occupied Southern Lebanon and parts of occupied Syria, does not possess under international law the right to defend itself as it is an occupying power. Indeed, it has major responsibilities imposed on it as an occupying power in relation to the people of the country which it is occupying, which it has breached every day since it came into existence nearly 80 years ago. As for its “preventative” war against Iran, that is also prohibited by international law. Just as the US and Israel have supported terrorist groups in other countries, so has Iran!