The UK newspaper The Guardian called the attacks an illegal war. Analysts at the Brookings Institution in Washington dismissed them as a “war of choice.” On March 17, the director of the US National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent posted his resignation on X and claimed, “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,” suggesting the US entered the war due to Israeli pressure.
The choir of critics accusing Israel of conducting “an unlawful war” and of “dragging the US into such a war” was as inevitable as it was predictable.
The clearly partisan political motivating factors—principally the predictable and automatic reservation regarding any action with which Israel may be associated, but also a deep mistrust, aversion and animosity toward US President Donald Trump—are so obvious and unsubstantive as to render such criticism and opposition ungenuine and insincere.
This is further demonstrated by the continued hesitation of European and other Western countries to cooperate in what they still label an “unnecessary war,” despite it serving their essential interests. UN Charter and international law violations
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