In the West, more and more voices are being raised to harshly denounce the bloody war that Israel has been waging against the Palestinians in Gaza since the Hamas attacks on Saturday, October 7th.
If the US, France and Germany continue to unconditionally support the far-right Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu, this is not the case for many countries. While the war in Gaza has caused thousands of civilian casualties, the Palestinian cause has gained important points around the world.
This Wednesday, the head of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, called on Israel to put an end to the “indiscriminate killing” of Palestinians in Gaza.
During his inaugural speech to the Chamber of Deputies since his reappointment, the president of the Spanish government called for an “immediate ceasefire” and promised to “work in Europe and in Spain to recognize the Palestinian state.”
In Europe, where France and Germany are using their full weight to maintain support for Israel, Ireland stands out for its particularly harsh voice against the Jewish state.
On Tuesday, Irish Higher Education Minister Simon Harris estimated that Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas had now become a “war on children,” the Irishtimes daily reported.
This minister is right because more than 11,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the war in Gaza, including more than 4,600 children. Israel indiscriminately bombs buildings, streets, schools and refugee camps in the Gaza Strip.
Even hospitals, which are supposed to be protected and safe places, do not escape the desire for bloodthirsty revenge by the hawks of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which has no respect for international law, the laws of war, or morality. The most recent health facility to be continuously bombed by Israel is Al Shifa Hospital. Which shocked Norway. “This goes too far and cannot be accepted,” Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide told AFP.
To justify the attacks on hospitals in Gaza, the Israeli army accused Hamas of using them as a headquarters to hide, which the Palestinian movement and hospital officials have denied.
In the United States, the situation is anything but favorable for Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. If the American administration of Joe Biden supports Israel politically and militarily in its war against Gaza, disagreements undermine the Democratic Party of the President of the United States.
War on Gaza: Israel challenges the West’s discourse
French geopolitical scientist Pascal Boniface believes Benjamin Netanyahu is causing trouble for Joe Biden both internally and externally. In the United States, the American president faces a force within his party or the left wing because of the massive Israeli bombings in Gaza.
“More and more young Democrats, especially those under 34, are beginning to protest the United States’ unconditional support for Israel” and are “moved by the fate” of Palestinians in Gaza. “It’s very new. So far there has been no protest against the Democratic Party’s unconditional support for Israel,” notes Pascal Boniface.
And according to Le Monde, Joe Biden is also encountering resistance in the State Department because of his unreserved support for Israel. On October 18, Josh Paul, a staff member in the State Department’s political-military office, resigned in protest over U.S. arms sales to the Netanyahu government.
The protest could not be contained as other diplomats called for a ceasefire and more resolve against Israel in internal notes, according to the same source.
In France, President Emmanuel Macron is also facing a backlash among French ambassadors to the Middle East and Maghreb for unconditionally joining Netanyahu’s extremist government.
The West’s initially full and unconditional support for Israel is collapsing, while the already horrific number of bombings against civilians in Gaza is increasing. By aligning itself with the policies of Netanyahu’s extremist government, the West is already suffering a major moral defeat in a world already weakened by the war in Ukraine.
The West thus finds itself isolated because the rest of the world does not share its variable condemnation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the war Israel is waging against Gaza.
With its bombers, Netanyahu’s government has not only massacred the Palestinians, but also significantly weakened the moral discourse of the West, which has been trying for more than a year to win over the countries of the South to its main task of fighting Russia.
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