News Desk
By any reasonable measure, Israel is now the most dangerous actor in the Middle East. And yet, as if caught in a trance, the leaders of the G7 rush to defend its every move—even when those moves drag the region closer to full-blown catastrophe. Last week’s statement from the G7 declaring Israel’s “right to defend itself” after it launched an unprovoked strike on Iran wasn’t just morally vacant. It was madness disguised as diplomacy.
The West has perfected a pattern: identify a Muslim-majority state, declare it a menace, brand it with words like “terror” and “instability,” and then unleash a war machine. Iraq. Libya. Syria. Now Iran. Always the same script—just a new villain. Always the same apologists—armed with think-tank lingo, not truth.
Israel, a nuclear-armed state that refuses inspections and shuns the Non-Proliferation Treaty, claims it is under existential threat from a country that, according to U.S. intelligence, isn’t building a nuclear weapon. In return, Israel has killed Iranian scientists, assassinated negotiators, and helped derail any hope of a revived nuclear deal. It does so while raining missiles on Gaza, flattening entire neighborhoods, starving children, and expanding illegal settlements. All of this while Benjamin Netanyahu stands accused of war crimes. Still, we are told Israel is the victim.
You are not imagining the absurdity. The numbers speak for themselves. Twenty-four Israelis were killed by Iranian strikes—every civilian life matters—but compare that to tens of thousands of Palestinians butchered in Gaza. And yet, each Israeli death dominates headlines, while Palestinians die unnamed and unnoticed. One BBC analysis found Israeli fatalities received 33 times more coverage than Palestinian ones. This is not journalism. It is propaganda.
Western media and politicians uphold a grim hierarchy of lives. Arab, Iranian, and Muslim deaths are routinely diminished or dehumanized. This is how the machinery of war is greased. This is how atrocities are sanitized and genocides normalized. And this is why G7 leaders—safely insulated from consequence—can enable new wars while whistling past old graves.
Sometimes, the brown man is given a seat at the big table—not out of respect, but utility. Once the calculations shift, he’s discarded without ceremony. Just ask Putin, once courted in Western capitals, now exiled from their discourse. Or look to the recent G7, where Indian media were not even let into the mail hall and shoved to the sidelines, reminded that proximity to power is not the same as belonging.
Israel’s defenders say it only targets terrorists. But that claim unravels when you look at the corpses of Gazan athletes, teachers, children. When the same people calling Iran a terror regime arm a war criminal regime that has turned Gaza into an open-air grave. When they label critics as extremists and peace advocates as sympathizers of the “enemy.” We’ve seen this before—used against those who opposed the Iraq war, those who questioned the bombing of Libya, those who warned that Syria would be shattered.
And we’ve seen where it leads: to 4.5 million dead in America’s post-9/11 wars, according to Brown University. To states turned to rubble, and to warmongers who face no accountability—just TV slots and book deals.
You are not losing your mind. The world is being led by people who treat law as optional, lives as expendable, and memory as inconvenient. Until there is a real reckoning—for Netanyahu, for the war architects, for the G7 enablers—we are trapped in a cycle of destruction. And if we continue down this path, the abyss is not a metaphor. It is a destination.
