Since 7 October, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been including Iran in his rhetoric of violence, disseminating the image of poor, beleaguered Israel battling all alone in a hostile region. This image is entirely fake. Israel is an aggressive, expansionist settler-colonial state. Israel has turned Gaza into a mass grave over the past six months; it continues to commit genocide openly and proudly with only occasional calls for restraint from the international community; it has carried out air strikes in Lebanon and Syria; and it has attacked Iran’s Consulate in Syria killing seven military advisors. Iran’s retaliation for this latest act of aggression by Israel saw it fire ballistic and cruise missiles towards the occupation state. Western narratives would … Continue reading UK rhetoric shows that retaliation is of greater concern than genocide