By now, President Joe Biden’s backroom negotiations with Israeli Opposition Leader Yair Lapid over the formation of a Palestinian state, are no longer a secret and the Israeli government is now at loggerheads with the US and its allies over its backhanded maneuvers. Apart from holding discussions on the recognition of a Palestinian state with the Israeli Opposition, the US is also engaging in such talks with Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The UK is also supporting the US in this effort.
Benjamin Netanyahu has lost most of his support from the electorate, and a change of government is inevitable. The US is taking the opportunity of this political transition to lay the foundations for a future end to the permanent conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
The IDF has fought its war against Hamas without any consideration for international law and the lives of civilians and even killed a record number of journalists in the history of war. Every day, new graphic images and videos are published online of the deliberate targeting and shooting of IDF soldiers against civilians in Gaza. Not to mention the wanton and deliberate destruction of Gaza.
Israel has waged this war with a textbook disregard for international law and human rights, and as a result, the Israeli government and Benjamin Netanyahu have lost (unofficially) their international legitimacy. Netanyahu and his cabinet ministers have been on record making genocidal statements while Biden admitted in public that Israel’s retaliation to Gaza was excessive. Quite clearly, Netanyahu’s government has lost its international legitimacy and there is little point in him going on as Prime Minister. He’s now just a sitting duck awaiting the end of his political career. Even if the Israelis would vote him in again (which they won’t), Netanyahu will be unable to commandeer his country in the international field.
Netanyahu’s dejection by his closest foreign allies also paves the way wide open for an investigation of him over war crimes and deliberate murder.
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