Israel has lost this so-called war.

Now before we discuss the murderous onslaught against Raffa,

which is in the south of Gaza, bear in mind what I just said there.

Israel has suffered a catastrophic defeat, militarily, strategically,

politically, morally. It has failed in a stated war aims,

defeating Hamas, who would ever be defeated by military means,

as any seasoned military expert will tell you. Indeed they have

taken over much of the destroyed areas of Gaza that the IDF has withdrawn from.

They haven't brought back the hostages, well the vast majority of those who were released, of course, only were so because of a ceasefire and negotiated prisoner exchange. And Israel has killed far more of its own hostages than it has rescued by military means.

Israel's international reputation has all but completely collapsed.

In the States it depends on for weapons and diplomatic support, public opinion has swung decisively and irreversibly

against it. In the months and years ahead, the uncritical support it has received from

those states will unravel. Too many people have seen things they cannot

unsee, heard things they can't unhear, read things they cannot unread. That goes

particularly for younger generations who would increasingly assert themselves politically.

Now much of the world already treated Israel as a rogue state, that position will now be cemented.

The fact that a new generation of younger Jewish Americans repudiate what Israel stands for

should terrify it the most. If the Israeli state was capable of acting

rationally that is even in its own narrow selfish strategic interests,

it would understand all of this.

Alas it cannot, because it has been overwhelmed by genocidal fervor and is suffering the fate

of a settler colonial state which refuses to come to terms with what it's done to the

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