In destroying Gaza, Israel destroyed its own image as a moral enterprise
JVL Introduction
David Hearst is a highly experienced and respected journalist and commentator on Middlle East afffairs whose analyses are always worth reading.
In this article he stresses that Trump’s and Netanyahu’s triumphalism is built on sand.
Hamas, in his view, has not been destroyed. On the contrary:
“Hamas, other militant factions, and above all, the population of Gaza can claim strategic successes. They thwarted Israel’s most serious attempt at mass displacement since 1967. The population withstood a genocide.”
Israel, by contrast, has had its reputation shredded. It has lost the moral authority on which its legitimacy in the West has rested – as shown in opinion polls, in the dominant narrative on social media, through developments in the international courts, and in how political elites are reacting (although they are proving the slowest and most reluctant to shift).
Hearst is also convinced that the unprecedented show of support for the Palestinian people with not disappear, that a threshold has been crossed and, more to the point, that this process – the drive to Palestinian liberation – is irreversible.
RK
This article was originally published by Middle East Eye on Thu 9 Oct 2025. Read the original here.
In destroying Gaza, Israel destroyed its own image as a moral enterprise
After stage one, Trump’s Gaza deal is likely dead in the water. But with soaring global support for Palestinian liberation, justice is on the horizon
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Let Us Be Brutally Honest About This. There is no peace. Israel has continued to kill and will do so until it runs out of ammunition. Netanyahu his pal Trump and The British have conspired to create another part in the Colonisation of Palestine. The Palestinians will continue to resist for as long as they can. They have handed over the live hostages because they can no more feed them than they can feed themselves adequately, in that the Siege has been a partial success. But there have been deaths of Hostages, due to the ongoing bombardment and the starvation and cutting off of medical supplies. Annexation has been happening by stealth in the West Bank Just as it did in Gaza. The Zionists have no intention of ever recognising that kill as often as they wish and no one has done anything about it except for Hamas and Hezbollah until so many people had the means to show the world directly what goes on in these Concentration Camps. I called Gaza that before October 7th 2023 and compared it to The Netanyahu promised to annex The West Bank two years ago and has been working toward it and now has more things in place including barriers to divide up the Palestinian population and further curtail their movement. What is it going to take before this annihilation is stopped. The Israeli youth is the only hope of pressure on their government by refusing the conscription that is mandatory for all.Meanwhile the population of the rest of the world must keep up the pressure on our governments not to cooperate with this slaughter and to divest from Israeli businesses and all who trade with them.
Global priority should be the disarming of Israel – a violent terrorist state with a population in a state of confused mass hysteria.
“In destroying Gaza, Israel destroyed its own image as a moral enterprise.”
Please remind me of when Israel genuinely had “its own image as a moral enterprise.”
Born in violence, lived by violence………..
The Jews won, again! The terrorists lost. Get over it.
Hopeful stuff, but I would be interested to see if (for instance) ANY of the UK MPs who rushed opportunistically into Labour Friends of Israel before the last election, have quietly withdrawn…My sense is that they haven’t. Research anyone?