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He accused Netanyahu of losing his senses and control. He added that hysteria he projects reflects "a grave picture illustrated by your true intentions at this time."
Mofaz is both military strategist and politician. He alone knows where one ends and the other begins. Opposition parties criticize for political advantage. Perhaps his comments reflect future electoral considerations, not real feelings or what he'd do as prime minister.
Professor Francis Boyle is a recognized international law expert. He calls waging war on Iran a criminal act. Doing so is naked aggression. "The death toll from World War III will be incalculable," he said. "Humanity must now allow our history to repeat itself! Otherwise, that could be the end to our Humanity."
When Obama says "all options are on the table," he threatening possible nuclear war. Doing so is unconscionable madness. It's also perhaps the highest form of criminality.
Nuclear weapons and "nuclear deterrence (have) never been legitimate instruments of state policy but have always constituted instrumentalities of internationally lawless and criminal behavior," Boyle explains.
"If mass extermination of human beings is a crime," so is threatening to do so. Article 2 of the UN Charter "prohibits both the threat and the use of force except" in self-defense. US wars don't qualify. Nor will attacking Syria and/or Iran.
America and Israel both are guilty of "ongoing international criminal activity." At issue is "planning, preparation, solicitation, and conspiracy to commit Nuremberg crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide" on a regional or world scale.
In emails to this writer, Boyle added more, saying:
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