ATLANTA, USA, Could 29 (IPS) – In case you have been taking note of the continuing wars in Ukraine, Iran, Lebanon, and plenty of different locations, maybe you could have observed that battles right this moment are far completely different from these of the final century. Now it’s not solely tanks and planes but additionally scores of long-range missiles and large flights of drones linked to cybernetic warfare.
The tragedy of army and civilian deaths continues, nevertheless, with the variety of casualties amongst Russian troopers in Ukraine reportedly reaching an astonishing 25,000 each month. As all the time in warfare, civilians are unfairly focused and undergo essentially the most, with mindless random missile and drone assaults killing harmless individuals on each side with regularity.
Professed lovers of peace, like US President Trump and Israel’s Mr. Netanyahu, each of whom have agreed to brokered ceasefire agreements in Gaza and in Lebanon, proceed to bomb the opposite facet with impunity. For essentially the most half they’re getting away with it, with out protests from anyone besides a couple of ineffective businesses and lonely voices.
That’s certainly a brand new, creative method of conflict: the combatants conform to a ceasefire, after which one facet retains bombing however insists that the opposite cease due to the agreed ceasefire. Underneath such circumstances, all a ceasefire actually means is “Your facet should cease firing—however we’ll hearth at will.”
Such nonsense is a sport of meaningless phrases with no decision in sight. The more and more Nazified Likud Social gathering in Israel continues to bomb cities, villages, and particular person properties and house buildings in Lebanon as if it had been licensed to take action, with little efficient pushback from the world group.
That’s maybe to be anticipated because the world has largely stood by silently for nearly 4 years in the course of the certifiable genocide in Gaza. And by now greater than 1.2 million individuals have been pushed out of their properties in South Lebanon into a lifetime of desperation and uncertainty.
The environment friendly US-backed Israeli killing machine in Lebanon has continued to smash residential buildings with impunity and pile up an obscene record of civilians murdered—harmless moms, fathers, grandparents, and plenty of youngsters.
In Gaza, Palestinian sources have recorded greater than 2,000 Israeli violations of the so-called “ceasefire” between October 2025 and March 2026, with a complete of over 700 Palestinians killed.
Solely a short lived maintain from the USA has stored Israel from persevering with to bomb Iran. Israel refuses to take heed to any restrictions on bombing Lebanon although there may be supposedly a ceasefire in impact.
Deaths there because the brief April 17 “ceasefire” proceed to escalate daily. In Iran, each Israel and the US have promised to maintain obliterating what was way back introduced as already obliterated.
The variety of Iranians killed and wounded within the first three months of the joint US-Israeli aggression has been introduced by the Tehran authorities as within the tens of 1000’s, and the conflict just isn’t over but. Most memorable is the bloodbath of 120 schoolchildren, primarily women, on the primary day of US bombing at Minab, Iran. Casualties thus far on the US facet quantity 13 killed and several other dozens wounded. That’s the definition of one-sided warfare.
Trendy wars might puzzle observers, however the artwork of twisting phrases and phrases and their related meanings is as outdated as time. Mendacity, obfuscation, and obscene claims are the essence of conflict’s main weapon, deception. Phrases can kill and do. “Ceasefire” is the newest lie. For Israel and the US, it means “You stop—we hearth.”
James E. Jennings is the Founder and President of the help company Conscience Worldwide www.conscienceinternational.org and a longtime Center East Peace Advocate.
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