U.S. and Israel escalate wars after Congress gives Netanyahu fifty-eight standing ovations

Days after the U.S. Congress gave fifty-eight standing ovations to an Israeli leader sought for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, the United States and Israel launched a major escalation of their wars in West Asia. Their escalatory attacks included the assassination in Tehran of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, and the killing in Beirut of a top military commander of the Islamic resistance. On August 1, 2024, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Lebanon-based war correspondent, Ghadi Francis, about the reasons for their escalatory attacks and the dangerous new phase of the broadening war in West Asia. Among other things, Francis and Lascaris discussed an emergency session of the UN Security Council held on July 31, 2024. The full video of that session can be watched here: