‘No, Israel Does NOT Have Legal Right To Self-Defense’ - Former UN Official Craig Mokhiber

This week’s Patreon: Jeremy Corbyn interview Craig Mokhiber, former UN Official, joins Katie to discuss his recent article which details why Israel does NOT have the right to self defense and why Palestinians DO. Here is some of Craig’s argument: “How many times have people who have followed what’s happening in the Middle East heard this phrase? ’We believe Israel has a right to defend itself.’ And that is usually a phrase which is delivered by Western politicians and spokespersons or government adjacent corporate media companies after Israel commits some massive war crime. So there’ll be a massive slaughter, and then these people will be asked about it, and the first thing they’ll say is, ’Well, Israel has a right to defend itself.’ I thought it was really important to unpack that, what I called the self defense because Israel does not have a right to defend itself in that way. As a matter of inter