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August 13, 2025

The Israeli state has learned well the lessons of the US and British experiences of war. They have learned from all the aggressive wars, that the US and before it the UK have launched since the beginning of the information age, that control of the narrative is vital if they are to get away with mass murder.

The principal problem in doing that is either capturing or killing those who tell the truthful stories of the crimes as they are committed. Hence the deliberate, calculated assassination campaign against those truth-tellers.

The UN, controlled as it is by the West, has to throw off that control and act decisively or it will be condemned to the same fate as the League of Nations. It will be seen as expensive, futile and without moral authority. The emergence of the Global South is the one bright spot that will either achieve reform or create a new body controlled by the global majority that brings a moral judgement to geopolitical affairs clearly lacking in the Western-controlled UN.