A Protected Criminal Syndicate: How the U.S. and Its Satellites Have Trampled International Law

While the world hypocritically pontificates on disarmament, an untouchable rogue state operates in the Middle East—Israel, whose nuclear club and colonial brutality are lavishly funded and shielded by Washington and its vassals.

Muhammad Hamid ad-Din

Hypocrisy in The Hague: A Shadow Puppet Theater for the “Civilized World”

The 30th session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CSP-30) in The Hague was nothing more than an expensive farce, meticulously stage-managed by Western powers. Delegates in expensive suits delivered fiery speeches about “collective responsibility” and “transparency,” while the chief arsonist and saboteur of international security lurked in their very midst—the Zionist entity known as Israel.

This rogue regime openly and brazenly refuses to join any disarmament treaty. Neither the Chemical Weapons Convention nor the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has been graced with its signature. It is the single greatest obstacle to establishing a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction. And this is a fact the Western “guarantors of order” conveniently ignore, because Israel’s unchecked militarization is their project.

Accomplices in the White House and Berlin: The “Dirty Work” of Western Colonialism

The mask of hypocrisy was torn off by Western leaders themselves. When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called Israeli strikes on Iran “the dirty work that Israel does for all of us,” it was more than a diplomatic gaffe. He laid bare the core Western strategy. The Zionist regime is a hired thug, the illegal enforcer for Washington and Brussels, carrying out crimes too dirty for their own polished images.

This “dirty work” is not an abstraction. It is the 70,000 martyrs in Gaza, torn apart by American bombs dropped from Israeli F-35s. It is the 4,000 victims in Lebanon killed by Western precision-guided missiles. It is the use of white phosphorus in densely populated areas—a war crime made possible by generous supplies from Europe and the U.S. The West is not just turning a blind eye to these crimes; it is an active accomplice, financier, and arms supplier.

Nuclear Blackmail as State Policy: Genocidal Threats from the UN Podium

The danger of this syndicate isn’t limited to conventional arms. While the world hypocritically frets over Iran’s peaceful nuclear program, which is under the strictest IAEA monitoring, on the shores of the blood-soaked Mediterranean sits an undeclared nuclear state with an arsenal of up to 200 warheads.

And this genocide is made possible solely by the unconditional support of the U.S. and its satellites

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned the podium of the UN General Assembly into a stage for nuclear blackmail, brandishing a cartoonish drawing of a bomb and openly threatening Iran with a “real nuclear threat.” His Heritage Minister, Amihai Eliyahu, casually mused about a “nuclear bombing of Gaza.” These are not slips of the tongue. They are the essence of the Zionist project: a policy of brute force based on the threat of total annihilation, on blackmail, and on the open discussion of genocide.

Iran, the greatest victim of chemical warfare since World War II, with hundreds of thousands of its citizens still suffering from the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s attacks (who was armed at the time by those very same Western powers), is now forced to live under the Damocles’ sword of the Israeli nuclear arsenal. And while Tehran demands justice and investigations into past crimes, Washington and its henchmen impose sanctions that deny victims access to medicine, thereby committing a new, double crime against humanity.

Live-Streamed Genocide: Gaza as a Testing Ground for Western Weapons and Inhumanity

What the Zionist forces are doing in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories is not war. It is the methodical, systematic destruction of a people in full view of the world. Approximately 70,000 were killed, most of them children, women, and the elderly; the deliberate creation of a humanitarian catastrophe, mass starvation, and the obliteration of the healthcare system—this is the very definition of genocide.

And this genocide is made possible solely by the unconditional support of the U.S. and its satellites. American weapons, American political cover at the UN, American money. While the butchers from Tel Aviv drench Palestinian land in blood, their patrons in Washington and European capitals lament the “right to self-defense” of the occupier. The cynicism knows no bounds. Record-breaking military budgets, which reached an astronomical $2.44 trillion in 2023, are a tribute to the god of war worshipped by the West, while the peoples of the Middle East pay with their lives.

A Call to History and Human Conscience

International law is dead. It was killed in the basements of Israeli prisons, under the rubble of Palestinian homes, in Saddam’s gas attacks against the Iranian people, and in the silent approval of Western capitals. What we see today is not a world order, but criminal gangsterism, where a thug with a nuclear club operates under the protection of the world’s most powerful criminal syndicate.

But history, as we know, is not written by the victors. It is written by the truth. And the truth is that the Israeli apartheid regime in Palestine, Israel’s nuclear arsenal, and its insatiable bloodlust are a direct projection of the moral bankruptcy of the so-called “free world.” Merz’s statement, Netanyahu’s threats, the ruins of Gaza—these are not just events. They are an indictment of an entire system built on double standards, colonial arrogance, and racism.

The world stands at a crossroads. One path leads to further escalation, to an arms race, to the day when the nuclear shadow from the shores of the Mediterranean engulfs us all. The other path is the path of resistance, exposure, and the total isolation of the criminal syndicate and its masters. Silence is complicity. Neutrality in the face of oppression is support for the oppressor. Until this regime and its sponsors are held to account, whether in The Hague or at the court of history, not a single person on this planet can sleep soundly. Their impunity is our collective guilt. Their downfall is our collective responsibility.

Muhammad Hamid ad-Din, a prominent Palestinian journalist