Benjamin Netanyahu and his right -wing extremist government cannot win the “Total Victoria” on Hamas that Israeli prime minister demands repeatedly; Even Israeli defense officials have said it. But he, or, more to the point, Israel, can lose.
With Gaza's hunger, Netanyahu is accelerating a break in the bipartisan support of the United States to Israel, support that has endured for the entire life of most Americans. After striving for that broad support for two decades by denying the humanity of the Palestinians and courtship openly Republicans On the Democrats in the United States, Netanyahu is inviting a complete break because of its guilt that Gazanes babies fall apart in the arms of their defenseless parents.
Many more children and adults have died, of course, since the beginning of the Israel War to avenge the horrible murders of Hamas terrorists of 1,200 people and the kidnapping of 251 more in their Attack to Israel on October 7, 2023. This week the toll of the Ministry of Health of Gaza-Dirigido by Hamas was exceeded 60,000 deadincluding 18,500 children. But for the most part, the world has not seen first planes of corpses for children taken from debris after Israeli air attacks. Now, however, despite Israel Restrictions Against international reporters in Gaza, we see more and more Videos and photos of dying children, hungry, as well as desperate and hungry adults.
Meanwhile, Israel continues its bombing and allows Gaza to a mere food from humanitarian aid, separating some allies for a long time, France, Great Britain and Germany Among them, as well as Democrats and independent In the United States Congress, which during much of Israel's existence were the most unconditional supporters of Israel. That is a loss that Israel literally cannot afford: for decades, the greater receiver of American foreign aid (eclipsed for now by the help of war to Ukraine).
On Monday, the independent senator Angus King of Maine announced I would no longer support Israel “as long as there are hungry children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.” His statement It began: “I can't defend the indefensible.”
And Netanyahu's war policies are indefensible, however, justified Israel's war against the genocidal Hamas in the beginning. It is more than painful and tragic to see a nation born of the sympathy of a world horrified by the images of the news of the human skeletons that emerge from the Nazi fields that now have the responsibility of the images from Gaza. The Israeli government itself is accused of war crimes and genocide even For their own citizensincluding some former leaders. However, the prime minister has the ball to tell us that our eyes are lying: “There is no hunger in Gaza,” Netanyahu insisted Mondays.
That lie had such a bald face that even the liar in chief, Netanyahu's friend, Donald Trump, called him. He asked on Monday about Netanyahu's denial, President Trump said Reporters had seen the clips of the hungry children of Gaza on television. “That is something real to hunger,” he saying. “I see it, and you can't pretend that.”
It is not exactly how most people would express empathy and outrage, but we take what we can get. Trump also continued on how the United States would take a step forward to create new food centers in Gaza, apparently unknown that the United States is already involved, accomplice Actually, in the failed “humanitarian” effort that supplanted the United Nations and independent humanitarian groups in Gaza and generated the current crisis.
After Israel in March left the fire that Trump had received credit, Blocked all goods in Gaza for almost three months to press Hamas to give up. Fyi, hunger as a weapon of war is a war crime. Instead of hundreds of help centers administered by experienced humanitarian organizations, Israel created a shadow and without name Gaza Humanitarian Foundation with a handful of centers led by US contractors and monitored by Israeli troops. Since May, more than 100 gazanes have died of hunger, but 10 times more have been shot dead, According to the UN, for happy trim soldiers shooting “Warning shots” In the foreseeably overwhelmed food sites, making them kill fields.
And so that let's not forget, In cisjordan The Palestinians continue to be tormented and killed by militant Jewish settlers, backed by the Netanyahu government. UN data shows that Violence against the Palestinians It is at a higher level than at any time in two decades.
The suffering, and the transformation of the image of Israel from David to Goliath, from Justice to Ira, in turn transform the policy of the United States-Israel, without a doubt in the long-term detriment of Israel.
On Tuesday a new Gallup survey report It was headed “32% in the military action of Israel in the United States. In Gaza, a new minimum.” That survey was conducted in early July, mainly before the torn of torn photos of malnourished babies. The least support of Americans to Israel's actions in Gaza was promoted by greater opposition among Democrats and independent. The approval of the Republicans of the Israel War is increasing, probably reflecting Trump's support to Netyahu, and the zeal of the administration towards the tar as an anti -Semitic to any or any critical institution of the Government of Israel.
In February, in the middle of the high fire, Gallup, Gallup found Only 46% support for Israel among Americans in general, the lowest level in their 25 years of follow -up. Until 2022, both the Republicans and the Democrats put themselves on the side of Israel on the Palestinian territories in their long dispute. Since then, the Democrats have realized the Palestinians, presumably reflecting the disgust that was being built before the war with the long, antidemocratic and selfish rule of Netanyahu.
Similarly, the Chicago Global Affairs Council reported In May, about the growing partisan division of the United States support to Israel. He concluded: “A long -term change in public opinion could lead to a reduction in the support of the United States to Israel in the future.”
That polarization of support in the United States, the oldest and most crucial ally in Israel, is Netanyahu's legacy. It is not good for the Jewish people, or for the United States.
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