A strategic defeat for Israel in Gaza
JVL Introduction
Amidst the ongoing horror of the vengeful, inhuman assault on Gaza, David Hearst takes the longer view and concludes that Israel is losing the war.
Its vastly superior military might, renewed on a daily basis by its Western backers, particularly Biden’s US, cannot hide its lack of a clear strategy and its deteriorating international reputation.
As Hearst puts it:
“A rubicon has been crossed. With this war, Israel has entered the elite rank of pariah states. It is now the ugliest of the ugly. It’s impossible to forgive. It cannot be justified, nor can it be put into context. The entire operation in Gaza is an atrocity.”
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This article was originally published by Middle East Eye on Thu 14 Mar 2024. Read the original here.
War on Gaza: All signs point to a strategic defeat for Israel
Tel Aviv is coming up against myriad obstacles, from the loss of western public opinion to the nervousness of its key backers
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Really powerful article. Thanks for posting.
Excellent read, so informative
Such good writing
Thankyou
Israel Israel Israel Israel. Biden Biden Biden Biden. The people of Gaza are being massacred. Especially the children, who are the future. Their homes, schools, universities, workplaces, farms, and hospitals have been demolished, deliveries of food have been prevented, there is no clean water, women are giving birth in the dirt roads, 1.7 million people have been herded into a tiny space in the south where Netanyahu will now start bombing them. On what basis do you really think Israel can be said to be losing if no Palestinians are alive to rebuild their country, if or when he finally stops, from the rubble? Let’s write much more about the lives and mass deaths and incarceration of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank. Let’s talk more about supporting the Palestinians – via donations to UNRWA, and to Medical Aid for Palestinians, who are UK based. And through sharing in the mainstream media what the Palestinians are going through every minute of every day. The vast majority of the UK population are not watching Al Jazeera or the UN Web TV where half the world’s governments are supporting the Palestinians but don’t have an ounce of the power needed to actually stop them except through words. Let’s start holding our mainstream media to account for refusing to show the reality of the genocide — and not just in Gaza either. But in country after country. Happening right now.
A very useful correction of the policies of Israel and it’s supporters in the West.