Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza

In a country where the majority of voters rank national security as their No. 1 issue, not least because the national mandate for military service impacts every family, the largest attack on a Jewish community since the Holocaust had Netanyahu and his government being blamed by the majority of Israelis. According to the Jerusalem Post, the nation’s more conservative leaning paper, 4 in 5 Israelis wanted Netanyahu to resign and nearly 80% of his own coalition members blamed him for the security failures leading to the attack.

The hostages who have returned, and their families, have publicly quarreled with Netanyahu, demanding in meetings with his government that he focus on “bringing them home now, not in another month.” This is in addition to revelations that the government and military ignored intelligence that Hamas was preparing a devastating attack. Instead, Israelis and military leaders routinely express anger that Netanyahu spent military resources defending right-wing settlers moving into Palestinian West Bank, when he should have been shoring up the border with Gaza. “A successful Hamas infiltration of Israel from Gaza was the exact scenario for which Israel was supposed to be prepared — not some unpredictable event,” explained Uriel Heilman of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.