In a time where Orwellian speech has become the norm, Israel is once again claiming victimhood as it launches an unprovoked “long war” against Iran. Terrified that nuclear talks might succeed, the Israeli regime needed a convenient distraction from its genocidal campaign in Gaza. But the idea that nuclear-armed Israel is protecting itself from a non-existent nuclear state is as laughable as it is infuriating.

In terms of the sheer magnitude and power of nuclear bombs, Israel has detonated its equivalent over Gaza dozens of times over the last 19+ months. Data compiled from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite over Gaza found levels of destruction unprecedented in recent conflicts. Unprecedented from the war in Ukraine, to the Syrian Civil War, to even World War II.

In fact, its bombardment of the small enclave which has become the equivalent of the Warsaw Ghetto, dwarfs the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To put it simply, Israel is literally nuking a concentration camp full of children it is starving to death and with full support from the most powerful empire the earth has ever known.

Israel knows that it cannot destroy any Iranian nuclear program, as the Islamic Republic is far more advanced than its other imagined enemies in the region. But that isn’t the point. This is meant to create chaos. To create a broader war that has no end point. And no point at all.

Israel is a militaristic fascist society that is in the grip of a deep psychosis. One that has been enabled by its wealthy and violently psychotic friend and benefactor, the United States, for decades. And fascism is as destructive as it is delusional.

It is a society characterized by a sort of borderline personality disorder. One which has woven a convoluted and intricate web of false victimhood as it creates chaos to shield it from self inspection. Because if it did that, it would have to face a mountain of crimes and corpses that span its 77+ year colonial settler project. It would have to reconcile with its racist and genocidal nature. And it would rather set the entire world alight than lay down on that couch.

Kenn Orphan, June 2025

*photo is of an apartment building Israel bombed in Tehran, not Gaza.