(JNS) Just 10 days after Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas began its fifth war on Israel, the terror group heard a useful broadcast from its patron, Iran.
The speech by the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei brazenly mischaracterized Israel’s military defense as a “genocide.” Scores of experts in the laws of war dispelled the sinister depiction, calling the Israel Defense Forces “a professional military, ethically and legally committed to the protection of civilian life.”
Nevertheless, anti-Israel advocates worldwide echoed the Iranian lie.
In the organization of the world’s top 20 economies, called the “G20,” most members have not labeled the war in Gaza a genocide. That group includes the world’s leading democracies: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, Japan and South Korea.
The few G20 members that called the Gaza war a genocide were already vocal critics of Israel.
Those states were Russia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa and Saudi Arabia. In...
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