Israel
One Year Later, Israel Lost
Israel has lost in the court of public opinion, on the world’s political stage, and as a regional power
If war were measured in casualties alone, arguing who the winners and losers are is easy. But it’s not. War isn’t decided by who kills the most people but by those who convince the world, both socially and politically, that their mission is just. Israel has failed to convince anyone of this due to its current efforts that perpetuate its brutal occupation of Palestine.
The actions of the ethnonationalist state have turned the world against it. Not against Jewish people, but against the state of Israel. There are two major reasons for this: ethnonationalism is largely frowned upon globally as is the apartheid state it became. Israel, although inadvertently, has become its own worst enemy as it shines its own spotlight on the oppression, subjugation, and mass murder of the Palestinians it has been violently colonizing for nearly a century.
Arguably, more people than at any other time in modern history are paying attention to and learning the history of Palestine and how we arrived at the current conflict. People worldwide know that October 7, 2023, didn’t happen in a vacuum — that the current conflict didn’t start that day. Suggesting it was…