Main events on November 16th
- An Israeli drone strike killed one person after targeting Lebanon’s town of al-Mansouri, near Tyre.
- The Israeli government announced the establishment of an independent investigative committee – and not a state commission of inquiry – to look into the failures that led to the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel in 2023.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet he “did not know” how long the Gaza ceasefire would hold, according to The Jerusalem Post.
- Israeli forces have shot dead a 15-year-old ninth grader in the Far’a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, education officials have said.
- The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has said Israeli soldiers have fired at its peacekeepers from a tank near an army position in southern Lebanon. Israel said its soldiers fired due to “poor weather conditions” and mistook the UN patrol for “suspects”.
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Iran Just Took Down Washington’s Israel Claims In Four Moves
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi has torn a strip off US-Israeli relations and exposed something else in the process.
Iran has finally said the quiet part out loud, and of course it lands like heresy in Washington because the accusation is not that the United States is biased or heavy-handed or looking the other way, it’s that the world’s self-appointed guardian of international law has stripped the wiring out of the system to let Israel run a regional free-fire zone.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is standing there in Tehran saying the US is replacing the entire post-war legal order with a force-based model designed to protect a state whose prime minister has been talking up Greater Israel as if it’s a family heirloom he’s polishing. And when you put that beside the strikes on Iran, the strikes in Syria and Lebanon, the UN vetoes, the stockpiled American munitions and the rest of it, well, it sounds less like Iranian bluster and more like someone describing the map as it already looks.
Iran is not just shouting at the clouds here, they are laying out a prosecution case, and the charge sheet is simple enough that you can follow it without having to buy into every bit of Tehran’s rhetoric. Abbas Araghchi is saying that the United States has stopped even pretending to run the post-war legal order and is now running a force-based system instead, and that system exists to protect Israel while it throws its weight around the region. You do not have to agree with Iran on anything else to see what he is doing there, because once you put the recent strikes, the public statements and the diplomatic wreckage in order, you end up with something that looks less like a conspiracy theory and more like a description of how power is actually working right now. The question is not whether the US likes Israel, that has been obvious for decades.
