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Things fall apart: the centre will not hold
Where is the West headed after Israel and America's '12-Day War' on Iran?
Sayer, Derek http://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/things-fall-apart-the-centre-will-not-hold
Publisher: Canadian Dimension
Date Written: 09/07/2025
Year Published: 2025
Resource Type: Article
The press are reporting that a third ceasefire in Gaza is imminent, with Donald Trump committing to "ensuring negotiations continue until a final agreement is reached." Whether this will end Israel’s "war," which began on October 7, 2023 and has now raged for 21 months, killing a documented 57,012 Palestinians (as of July 2) and in all likelihood many thousands more, remains to be seen.
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After Israel reneged on its ceasefire agreement with Hamas and launched a renewed Gaza offensive on March 18, killing over 400 people in one single night of terror, and imposed a complete blockade on power, food, and medical aid to the Strip, sections of the press and other influential opinion in the West had increasingly challenged its "self-defence" narrative. For a time at least, political leaders appeared to be listening.
This changed abruptly after June 13. Despite the fact that Israel, not Iran, was the clear aggressor—and notwithstanding the well established principle that pre-emptive actions are permissible under international law only "if the threat is imminent, overwhelming, and leaves no alternative but to act"—most Western states swallowed whatever misgivings they had previously expressed about Gaza and once again fell in line behind Israel.
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