Washington and Tel Aviv Remain Far from Humanitarian Law

By Kostas Isychos, Chairman of International Association of friends of Crimea

Global stock markets are measuring the rise of “black gold.” Human conscience in Washington and Tel Aviv has no “meters” for humanitarian law. Within Euro-Atlanticism, the blood still flowing in Gaza is never taken into account.

Asymmetrical wars have both tactical and strategic objectives. Their targeting now extends beyond the battlefield, as shaped by military leadership headquarters and intelligence services serving 21st-century neocolonialism.

Conflicts now expand to:

• civilians
• infrastructure
• media
• cyberspace

The declared strategic objectives openly set by U.S.–Israel leadership are as follows:

1. Regime change in Iran, with Israel transformed into a hegemonic (nuclear) power in the Arab world and Eurasia.
2. Absolute control of oil wealth and its transport routes.
3. Restoration of monarchy or the establishment of a fully controlled “power” structure in Iran.
4. Continuous encirclement of the Russian Federation (Caucasus) and obstruction of China’s trade routes to the West.
5. Deeper geopolitical, economic, and energy dependence of the EU on the U.S.
6. Replacement of the UN with a new one-dimensional “Trump-style” international organization.
7. Globalization of a new Monroe Doctrine as a “lifeline” for the American imperium.

These aims lie at the core of imperialist power centers and are being implemented in detail.

The structural crisis of the global imperialist “order” assumes that geopolitical “chaos” can restrain emerging competing poles (BRICS). Peoples who still possess critical thinking, historical memory, and humanitarian values fully understand the objectives, hypocrisy, and leadership arrogance of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.

EU leaderships, divided and in deep decline, lacking credibility among European peoples, aim to transform the EU economy into a war economy and public opinion into one driven by fear and ready to accept “enlightened” far-right solutions.

In the 21st century, two nuclear powers, the U.S. and Israel, with the full support and tolerance of the so-called “free Western world,” have delivered the final blow to what remained of diplomatic credibility and marginalized international law.

Amid ongoing U.S.–Iran negotiations in Switzerland, Israel’s attack on Iran was labeled a “preemptive strike.”

On the first day of the war, a girls’ school was hit by an American missile, killing 168 young girls. Even mainstream U.S. media (New York Times) described it explicitly as: “U.S. war crime in Iran.”

Iran’s religious leader was assassinated along with nearly his entire family—children and grandchildren. This assassination was described as a necessary “elimination.”

Iran’s energy infrastructure, electricity facilities, and drinking water systems in the capital and other cities are considered steps toward its total destruction (“obliteration,” as Donald Trump calls it).

Iran remains under Western scrutiny to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. Yet while Iran has signed multiple international agreements under nuclear law frameworks, Israel still does not acknowledge possessing nuclear weapons.

It has not signed any international treaties regarding nuclear control or non-proliferation obligations tied to nuclear powers.

It does not recognize borders with neighboring countries and instead invades and illegally occupies territories in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank, systematically implementing genocide and ethnic cleansing. Western agreement on this is deafening.

A segment of the Western left is trapped in flattening criticism, placing a theocratic regime and modern imperialist violence at the same level.

In the case of Saudi Arabia, the selective silence of the West and pro-NATO left ignores even the absence of parliament or basic democratic institutions.

It also ignores that in this medieval monarchy—and others in the region—top ministers must be blood relatives of the monarch.

Under the Pahlavi monarchy in Iran, installed by British imperialism, only 3% had access to higher education, and illiteracy exceeded 36%. Details, one might say.

The so-called rights agenda is hypocritical when it lacks class analysis, anti-imperialist perspective, and unifying peace initiatives among peoples and movements.

Alignment with imperialist narratives—even in terms like “mullahs,” “headscarf,” etc.—recalls the ideology of the “superior white race,” which conquered the Americas, Africa, and Asia through bloodshed, labeling peoples as “savages” and “uncivilized.”

It imposed global slavery, institutionalized racism—even through religion—and erased the histories of these peoples. Today, the Muslim world is portrayed as backward compared to the “superior” Western lifestyle.

Recent declarations of victory in economic and military wars against Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela represent not only hypocrisy but a distortion of reality—an attempt to conceal failure in achieving political and military goals.

American imperialism seeks to “legitimize” wars worldwide by selectively highlighting minority rights (even primarily within the U.S.) as a supposed force for protection. The hypocrisy is overwhelming.

No society—West or East, North or South—is free of class, social, and economic contradictions, or structural inequalities in rights.

Flattening analysis, ahistorical views, racism, and seas that drown refugees fleeing poverty and war (often created by the “civilized” West) will haunt consciences that settle for selective philanthropy by oligarchs instead of true global solidarity.

Deep global solidarity with Palestine and Cuba reveals the planetary dimension of human dignity and moral victory. Yet again, Western “meters” of truth are absent.

This solidarity is the alpha and omega of humanitarian values in our time.

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