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Israel Keeps Committing War Crimes — And Isn’t Getting Any Safer

A photo of a wireless communication device in the hand of a hezbollah member.
A wireless communication device with the battery removed in the hand of a Hezbollah member after the pager attack. Bilal Jawich/Xinhua/ZUMA

With its unprecedented attacks on pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon that again killed innocent victims, Israel now faces the risk of losing the war not just on moral and legal grounds, but also from a strategic perspective.

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Ukraine, Israel And The West: A Dangerous Double Standard On Weapons Supplies

Photo of security forces standing outside a supermarket in Kharkiv after Russian airstrikes that killed at least five on May 25.
The supermarket in Kharkiv after Russian airstrikes that killed at least five on May 25. Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Ukrinform/ZUMA

Ukraine is not allowed to attack Russian territory. Israel, on the other hand, has free rein. These are the would-be restrictions of Western weapons in two wars that might seem to have little in common.

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