WHEN NETANYAHU MARKED LIBYA FOR DESTRUCTION

In September 2002, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a bold case to Congress for the US war on Iraq, claiming that Israel's enemy, Iraq, had nuclear weapons, when in fact, the said weapons did not exist. He included Iran and Libya in his list, suggesting these countries were on the verge of getting weapons of mass destruction.

Fast forward to March 2003, when the US-led coalition invaded Iraq based on these pretences, k*lling 2 million and devastating what was once known as the cradle of civilisation, Mesopotamia.

Then, in 2011, under the pretext of protecting Libyan civilians from a supposedly brutal regime, the US-led NATO coalition bombed Libya and took out its revolutionary Pan-African leader, Muammar Gaddafi, arming terror groups, sparking civil war and creating the conditions for modern slave markets.

Netanyahu has a long history of advocating for military interventions, leveraging his influence in Western capitals to uphold his country’s colonial and imperialist agendas in West Asia. Perhaps it’s time to view his more alarmist warnings about so-called rogue states with a critical eye.

Video credit: @cspan

Sources:

https://www.c-span.org/program/house-committee/israeli-perspective-on-conflict-with-iraq/125088

https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2002-09-13-30-former-67437682/384518.html

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2024-09-30/ty-article/.highlight/for-netanyahus-government-the-endgame-of-war-is-war/00000192-43b3-d755-add7-63f7b7700000