We’ve ended up here because for two years, the Israelis, with the support of the US and much of Europe, were allowed to cross every line, disregard every rule of war, and demonstrate utter contempt for international law as they slaughtered Palestinians on an industrial scale and turned Gaza to dust.

The barbarity now on show in Iran, is, as many of us warned, the inevitable consequence of the impunity granted to Israel to commit genocide. It is the consequence of an emboldened, violent, settler colony with a nuclear weapon.

The crimes of Gaza were never going to be confined to Gaza. Especially not with Zionists in power across the west. Especially not with the power of the Jewish lobby and their expansionist plans for Greater Israel controlling our political systems.

-Nate Bear