Opinion: Ismail Haniyeh killing: Netanyahu wants a war without end. This could give it to him

Last week's assassinations by Israel of Hezbollah's top military commander, Fuad Shukr, and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh have brought the region to the precipice of all-out war.

Actually, the region is already at war. But so far it has been a controlled, carefully calibrated conflict - tit-for-tat, cat-and-mouse.

Israel has now torn that unstable status quo asunder. In the process, it has destroyed the 75-year-old rules-based order, the laws of war and international humanitarian law. Israel has defied the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.

They might as well not exist.

These institutions were founded to prevent a repetition of the Nazi Holocaust. Instead, they have failed to prevent the genocide in Gaza. 

READ MORE: Netanyahu wants a war without end. This could give it to him, opinion by Richard Silverstein