Last week, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said (and released a video emphasizing) that if Israel starts a war against it, the response would be "without constraints, without rules, without limits."
What, exactly, does that mean?
It means that Hezbollah is threatening to ignore international law - there are no other "rules" he could be referring to. It will not just target civilians but attempt to wipe out every civilian in Israel.
It is a promise to genocide that is far more explicit and encompassing than anything any Israeli official has said about Gaza.
And it isn't even the first time Nadrallah has said this.
The language was nearly identical to a speech he made in January, when he pledged "We will have no limits, no restrictions, no rules of engagement, or boundaries" - according to the official translation from Hezbollah-aligned Al Mayadeen.
He even said this in 2016 in a potential war with Israel "We will fight it without a ceiling, without limits, without red lines." This was shortly after Nasrallah threatened to bomb ammonia plants in Haifa which, he said, would have the impact of a nuclear explosion.
Just in case his genocidal intentions are not clear.
Here is the leader of a group that effectively controls Lebanon promising not only to wage war but also to break every international law in doing so - international laws whose main purpose is to protect civilians.
And the reaction from the international community, from NGOs, from the media?
Nothing.
No outrage, no protests, no op-eds, no attempts to bring Nasrallah to the International Court of Justice.
When even a minor Israeli official says something that can be taken out of context to sound violent, it is headline news and referred to as "proof" of genocidal intent for years afterwards. Yet here we have a leader of one of the most powerful militaries in the Middle East promising to ignore international law in any war, and no one condemns him.
