By Ilana Mercer
March 28, 2026
Codified or uncodified, all laws that govern the comity between the community of nations and uphold individual rights have been trashed by the US-Israel coalition of the evil.
The Axis of Epstein wants to destroy the Axis of Resistance.
Decent, moral people will root for Iran to hold the line against the US-Israel confederacy, seeking the fragmentation and Gazafication of Iran and Lebanon.
To that end, President Donald Trump, the "populist" president, had recruited billionaires to his White House, who also happen to be Israel-first fixers and assets. Like their boss, both Trump's point "men" are regarded as "Israeli assets," as "one Gulf diplomat with knowledge of the talks" told The Guardian, on March 17.
This, the president, to whom Bibi Netanyahu's word is law, did with a purpose, the outcome of which is in evidence:
The final and full Israelization of the American military, and the attempted Gazafication of Iran and Lebanon. The "Gaza doctrine applied to a new front," concludes Jonathan Whittall, a humanitarian and fellow South African. "And the American state is in compliance, providing firepower and striving to finally and fully Israelize the American military."
The crime of aggression is " the supreme international crime" in international customary law. Why so ? Because "it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." The aggression is not only "a crime against the state that is attacked," but it is "a crime against individuals who are killed or harmed as a result of war."
Think " accumulated evil" when you look at Trump, a " second-rate gangster who strove to be Bibi Netanyahu" and has finally and fully arrived. Without half trying, Trump has made us all confederates in Israel's crimes, recruiting the American military in the commission of the greatest Sins known to Man.
The Israel-US criminal regimes are in contravention of the laws of war, and the Charter of the United Nations- Articles Two and 51, in particular-by which " armed force" shall not be deployed against "the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State."
For reasons obvious, the twinned Trump-Netanyahu regimes are also an affront to God's law, the Ten Commandments-according to which you must not covet or murder-and the natural justice, subsumed within which is the libertarian law. The latter pivots on the universal injunction against unprovoked aggression, not on the " national interest fiat standard."
Most of all, this obtains " regardless of a declaration of war" ! In other words, the murderous parliamentary procedures and protocols of Israel or the US do not usurp eternal codes of morality and ethics. Codified or uncodified, all laws that govern the comity between the community of nations and uphold individual rights have been trashed by the US-Israel coalition of the evil.
By rights, Iran then is not only expected to defend its people-but to defend them against any " State that allows its territory, which it has placed at the disposal of another State, to be used by that other State USA for perpetrating an act of aggression against a third State [Iran]." By the letter of the law, Iran is fighting fair when it targets the Persian Gulf states, from which attacks on the Iranian people are staged.
These eternal universal laws have been sundered by two rogue, nuclear powers, whose nuclear proliferation is undeclared and unsupervised. Obscenely, the US and Israel have justified their attack on a third state [Iran] that has no nukes and has not initiated war in centuries, by invoking nuclear control and non-proliferation, comments Craig Mokhiber.
This is enough to make one gag.
Trump's team of choice gave tone to all negotiation proceedings. To head his diplomatic corps to the Middle East and beyond, Iran included, Trump recruited Israel-first fixers. In progress is a system of plunder developed by this coterie. Don't, however, let the sweep of destruction they leave in their wake fool you. Trump and his loyalists are amassing fortunes. So too are sons Odai and Qusai making money hand over fist.
The one oaf sent abroad to " represent," Steve Witkoff, is an old pal of the president. A real estate developer and investor, the man knows less than nothing about most things, the world of stocks and bonds excepted.
As we know, Trump is economical with the truth. Like him, Witkoaff has told lies right and left. About the long-suffering, patient, genial Iranian negotiators-a class act if ever there was one-he piled up a heap of lies to a receptive media:
"There's almost no stopping them; they have an endless supply of [enriched uranium]... They thought they could strong-arm us. It was very, very clear that it was - it was going to be impossible, probably by the second meeting...
They bragged about having 60% enriched fuel, enough for 11 bombs," Witkoff prattled on elsewhere to reporters seven days into the conflict. "They told me and Jared, 'We're not going to give you diplomatically what you couldn't take militarily.' So you know, I think they're gonna need a change of attitude....In a year, if you had someone who didn't have the courage to do this action, you'd have 30 or 40 nuclear bombs," Witkoff crowed in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday."
Swap family names and place names with current names and place names-and my description of the ramp-up to the onslaught on Iraq obtains today as well as it did in July of 2003 (minor adaptations are italicized):
"Reducing this administration's single-minded will to war to an erroneous report ignores the big picture. First came the decision to go to war. The misbegotten illegality that was this administration's case for war followed once the decision to go to war had already been made. The administration's war wasn't about a few pieces that did not gel in an otherwise coherent framework; it wasn't about an Iran that was poised to attack the U.S. with germs and chemicals rather than with nukes and missiles; it was about a resigned, hungry, economic pariah that was a sitting duck for the power-hungry American colossus.
By all means, dissect and analyze what, in September 2002, I called the 'lattice of lies' leveled at Iran: the uranium from Africa, the aluminum tubes from Timbuktu, the invisible 'meetings' with al-Qaida in Prague, an al-Qaida training camp that existed under Kurdish-not Iranian-control, as well as the alleged weaponized chemical and biological stockpiles and their attendant delivery systems that inspectors doubted were there and which never materialized.
But then assemble the pieces and synthesize the information, will you ? Do what the critical mind must do. The rational individual, wedded to reality, reason, and objective, non-partisan truth saw Trump's sub-intelligent case for war on Iran for what it was. He saw Trump as the poster boy for 'the degeneracy of manner and morals' which James Madison warned war would bring-the same 'bring 'em on' grin one can also observe on the face of a demented patient with end-stage syphilis. The rational individual saw all this, and understood that when Madison spoke of 'war as the true nurse of executive aggrandizement,' he was speaking of the disposition of this dictator, Trump." (" Bush's 16 Words Miss The Big Picture," Ilana Mercer, July 16, 2003.)
The difference: Trump's "degeneracy of manner and morals" was already on display in Gaza. " Genocide was Trump's gateway crime." Like the vanquishing of Venezuela, the assault on Iran could've been easily foreseen by devotees of the codes of justice aforementioned.
The drift of events being what it is; Wittkoaff is begging Iran " to resume talks." According to reliable pipelines, the worn and wary Iranians now ignore his desperate texts.
The other oaf involved is Jared Kushner, Trump's " best friend and his son-in-law."
Initially, Trump had puled about being doubly indebted to Kushner. Kushner, Trump had insisted, was the brain trust of his administration, who "was giving [him] 'valuable expertise' on Iran while... working as an 'informal, unpaid advisor.'" Genuflection has since turned to bitching. Still impenitent himself, Trump now concedes that the war on Iran is a result of Kushner's "expertise," " because Kushner told me," quotes Haaretz.
To Israel, Trump has offered nothing but service and subservience. Yet in 2011/12, Netanyahu, then a defense minister, with Prime Minister Ehud Barak in tow, tried to impose the Iran " ticking-clock deadline" on Barack Obama. We're attacking, he and Ehud Barak threatened. They failed. Subject to the same Israeli shakedown tactics, even President Biden managed to steel himself. Biden refused to " support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities or oil installations."
In his devotion to Israel, Trump has bested Biden, a senile, creedal Zionist.
As expected, in amoral Israel, state and civil society, there is no rankle of conscience. Ninety-three percent of Jewish-Israelis love the assault on Iran. The country operates outside all moral gravitational pull, its finest are currently transmitting footage of the trashing of Lebanese lives and land.
Clearly, to Israel's unbridled barbarism, America has responded by joining in. Trump has naturalized the idea of conquest, ethnic cleansing; genocide and mass murder.
American forces are strafing Iran's cities and civilians à la Israel-and in coordination with that odious entity. Like Israel, America is giddy over the prospects of illegally and immorally assassinating those Iranian leaders who heroically volunteer to succeed their many colleagues assassinated. Vulgarly, emulating the Israelis, the US State Department has placed a $10 million bounty on the head of supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, whose father they murdered.
It all has a kind of yeehaw quality to it.
Big Daddy Beelzebub and the "Synagogue of Satan" (Jesus' words, not mine, in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9) are crass, boorish entities. Countries and cabals whose philosophy is plunder hate refinement and cultivation in others. That Ali Larijani certainly was. A mathematician, computer scientist, PhD in philosophy with an interest in Kant: murdered ! What a waste. President Masoud Pezeshkian " has confirmed 'the cowardly assassination' of Esmaeil Khatib, Iran's Intelligence Minister and others: On the homes of the commander of the Basij and the head of the Basij intelligence directorate Israel dropped bombs, for the IDF is an air force, not a fighting force. (To a man, the Israeli Air Force should be served with subpoenas to the Hague.) Murdered too was the spokesperson of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Two (alleged) omissions are noteworthy in the inexhaustive Wikipedia list of Israeli assassinations since 1956: The one dated November 22, 1963; the other occurred on September 10, 2025.
Americans are now also party to Israel's chemical warfare, a particularly dastardly war crime prohibited under international humanitarian law. Israel illegally spews banned chemical weapons-white phosphorous-over land across the Levant.
Iranians are thus " gasping for air," inhaling "airborne crude," following Israeli airstrikes on "major oil depots and infrastructure in Tehran neighborhoods... as well as in the nearby city of Karaj." The sky is a blackened dome. The rain has turned acid. Trump's dissembling notwithstanding, the airstrikes on the South Pars Gas Field in Iran were, too, a joint, Israel-US effort. Operation Epstein Furyhas seen the dropping of " 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on Iranian missile sites along Iran's coastline near the Strait of Hormuz," because, "How dare Iran defend its sovereignty."
According to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 3.2 million Iranians have been displaced. " At least 10,000 residential homes have been damaged or completely destroyed," all courtesy of the Epstein Alliance. " US forces have struck more than 5,000 targets in Iran since last Saturday." In all, said Trump's mini-Israeli Pete Hegseth, "over 15,000 targets have been hit in Iran, while the Iranian Red Crescent reports strikes on over 21,700 civilian sites." At least 1,444 people have been killed and 18,551 injured by US-Israeli attacks on Iran since February 28, Iran's Health Ministry says.
With the acquiescence of the collaborator Lebanese government, Israel has murdered more than 1000 of its citizens, amid ongoing airstrike assaults on Lebanon's infrastructure, a crime to which Israel's defense minister has copped. With one million people displaced," Lebanon is nearing "breaking point," reports Drop Site News.
Since writing the previous paragraph, the number of murdered Iranians has risen to 1500. A little bit after editing the text you are reading, I am forced to update the number to 1,937 Iranians targeted and culled. All figures curated above are already obsolete. Understand: This is in the nature of the serial-killer state and its perfidious American poodle.
Fact: Israel poses a grave existential threat to its neighbors ! As if the enormity of this threat is not terrifying enough-Iran (Lebanon and Yemen) must now contend with a distinctly flippant approach taken in the West by "credentialed" elites (and some stellar people, inadvertently) in discussing the possibility that Israel might use tactical nuclear weapons on its victims.
Predictions, classifications, derivations, etiologies: Man has always performed these mental operations. However, the war gaming going on under the guise of military scholarship is both repulsive and dangerous, given the "place of massive impunity" that has been carved out for Netanyahu and his complicit countrymen. As I see it, the gaiety someone like Robert Pape affects, while huffily flogging his war-on-Iran predictions, comes under the " Ugly American" category.
As a method of war, as a military doctrine, Israel is conducting annihilatory campaigns with the intent to bring about the disintegration of Iran as a functioning, sovereign state capable of defending itself. An ideal Iran, from rogue state Israel's perspective, is a place to which Israeli "fighter" pilots "can return every six months to ' mow the grass.'" (See Double Down News)
Heightened by American collaboration with a genocidal entity; flippant, morally debased exchanges are a consequence of decreased public and pundit sensitivities to all this legalized crime.
The use of tactical nuclear weapons must be decried with the lash of logic, not logistics, and in clear moral language. Protest, rather than prattle to show how much you know or how predictive your war gaming is.
While Col. Douglas McGregor had underestimated the age of the pre-Christian Persian civilization by a few thousand years during an interview; the colonel is commended for dubbing Iran " a civilizational nation." In Iran, the Axis of Epstein, whose combined age is 327 years, is trying to destroy a civilization 6000 to 8000 years old. Pray they fail.