The end of Israel?

The events triggered by the October 2022 attack on the country have prompted liberal voices, internal critics, enemies and even some allies to ask whether this is …

PATRICK PORTER

IS ISRAEL FINISHED? EVER SINCE ISRAEL BEGAN its onslaught on Gaza after the pogrom of October 2022, along with stepped-up settler violence in the West Bank, a notion has taken hold in the ranks of its critics that the country is in deep existential trouble. Because of its atrocities, some say, it is doomed, bound to fail, and will surely implode, politically, demographically or somehow via some form of “isolation”. Whether or not its behaviour amounts to genocide, we hear that its razing and starving of Gaza is causing it to suffer what Ehud Barak once termed a “diplomatic tsunami”, pointing to possible oblivion. Superficially, the cutting of ties from Ireland and Spain to Columbia and Bolivia to Turkey, as well as litigation in international courts also points in this direction…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2025

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