Is the West beginning to shift its stance on Israel’s war on Gaza?

Are Western countries shifting their stance on Israel after 20 months of non-stop massacres, or is it all just an act?

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prime Minister

Netanyahu

end this blockade now and let the aid in

gaza came up and I said you know we got

to got to be good to Gaza those people

are those people are suffering we got to

be good to Gaza and I want to put on

record today that we're horrified by the

escalation from Israel we have to help

also out the Palestinians sure a lot of

people are starving on Gazas since

October 7th 2023 the West has watched

Israel reduce Palestine's Gaza to rubble

kill tens of thousands of civilians

block countless aid deliveries and use

food as a weapon of war to starve

besieged Palestinians acts that all

amount to war crimes yet Western pundits

and leaders have only regurgitated

poultry condemnations but now after 20

months of non-stop carnage might their

tone be shifting i think it is without a

doubt true that Israel has committed war

crimes you wouldn't have said that at

the podium yeah look cuz I when you're

at the podium you're not expressing your

personal opinion you're expressing the

conclusions of the United States

government for 20 months Western media

indirectly enabled the continuation of

Israel's genocide in Gaza by failing to

show the reality on the ground and parin

Israeli narratives and propaganda some

of those outlets now seem to be starting

to question whe they legitimized and

some even appear to be pivoting i have

resisted going as far as you have done

in your criticism of the Israeli

government i resist no more so the

question is why now is it guilt fear of

history's judgment or political

expediency a desperate attempt to

salvage credibility and dodge

accountability let's dive in

this is the presidency of peace he's

going to end the war uh in Europe he is

going to end the wars in the Middle East

and you know what by the end of this all

we're going to have the Nobel Peace

Prize sitting next to uh the name of

Donald J trump within the context of the

Israel Palestine conflict the United

States has for decades presented itself

as a mediator a so-called broker of

peace but behind the rhetoric Washington

is under the terms of the US Arms Export

Control Act legally bound to guarantee

Israel's military superiority through

the country's qualitative military edge

that means Israel gets a seemingly

neverending supply of US-made arms bombs

military equipment billions in aid and

diplomatic shielding at every turn and

who opposes peace the Pentagon Mr

president just lifted a hold on 2,000 lb

uh bombs uh for Israel which was blocked

by Biden can you do you have a comment

on that story on on the 2,000lb bombs uh

that Biden had put a hold on we released

them we released them today and they'll

have them and they paid for them and you

know they've been waiting for them for a

long time they've been in storage for a

long time but we released them today to

Israel why did you do that sir because

they bought them no one in history has

ever stood with Israel and the Jewish

people like I have for decades

Washington's support for Tel Aviv has

been bipartisan and unquestioned we

stand with Israel we are fully

supportive of Israel's right to defend

itself presidents came and went but

allegiance to Israel was the one

uninterrupted continuum in midMay

reports started to surface that

President Trump was frustrated with

Israeli PM Netanyahu's failure to

cooperate with the US to end the war in

Gaza the original report indicated that

Trump and his administration were fed up

and had simply had enough of Netanyahu's

refusal to align with Washington's

vision for the region while the

headlines make it sound like the two

leaders were on the verge of a breakup

experts aren't buying the rhetoric these

rumors are actually irrelevant it's a

kind of moderation of friendly criticism

that will not have any tangible impact

on Israeli

defiant policies particularly

since

uh Trump has uh reinforced the

unconditionality

of the American commitment to Israel

what matters is whether Israel continues

to get the weapons and whether it

continues to get the political support

and the diplomatic support to carry out

this genocide when Bernie Sanders put

forth a resolution saying "Let's stop

sending bombs that are used to kill

people every day in Gaza," we only had

15 members out of a 100 members of the

Senate who agreed with that trump has

also taken certain steps in recent weeks

that allegedly rattled Netanyahu like

opening talks with Iran over its nuclear

program without Israel's involvement and

negotiating a ceasefire deal directly

with Hamas so could this be Trump's way

of tightening the leash on Netanyahu in

an attempt to exert control over him the

real question that will distinguish

whether we have a situation where the

tail meaning the Israeli regime wags the

dog the American administration or is it

a case where the owner of the dog the

United States is having a tight leech on

that dog which is Israel this is a

moment of truth it's too late to stop

them in a way because you've let them

loose for so many years that you don't

have the mechanism to control them the

real question now is is this all part of

a calculated optics-driven move on

Trump's part to plate voters and quell

public descent over Washington's support

for Israel as Tel Aviv implements a

policy of mass starvation in Gaza i

don't think Trump is actually distancing

himself from Netanyahu's government in

the end of the day the Israeli

occupation is fully supported by any

American administration all you're

seeing is good PR out there to show that

Trump is angry doesn't like the way

they're moving people are not going to

put up with this starvation policy with

this destructive policy where dozens of

people have already died because of

starvation with thousands being

threatened recent polls indicate that

public opinion is shifting in the US

with support for Israel having dropped

to record lows especially among younger

Americans and this mounting frustration

has reverberated on the streets in

parliament halls and across social media

but to the Trump administration it's

just noise noise that has no impact or

influence on Washington's backing of Tel

Aviv especially with US House Speaker

Mike Jensen set to travel to Israel and

address the Knesset on June 22 the world

is looking for action right now and the

only thing that's holding that back is

the fact that America is holding the

world hostage

for the past 20 months governments

across Europe notably several of the

continent's old colonizers France the UK

Netherlands Belgium Italy and Germany

have sat on their hands recently some of

these nations seemed to be suddenly

dialing back their long-standing

steadfast support for Israel some EU

nations began calling for sanctions on

Israel and in May France a staunch ally

of Israel was pushing several key EU

nations towards a motion to recognize

Palestine as a state the UK another

staunch ally signaled support planning

an announcement that was to be delivered

at a UN conference in New York on June

17 if we abandon Gazar if we consider

there is a free pass for Israel even if

we do condemn the terrorist attacks we

kill our own credibility in the rest of

the world but are these public facing

announcements actual attempts to stop

Israel's genocide actions indicate

otherwise france has been shipping

weapons to Tel Aviv since at least 2018

with supplies continuing uninterrupted

since the onset of Israel's war on Gaza

in October 2023 despite the UK banning

arms exports to Israel in September 2024

it still supplies the country with about

15% of each F-35 jet including critical

components like laser targeting systems

germany and Italy have also continued

supplying Israel with radar systems and

military equipments that it uses in its

bombardment of Gaza as far as

recognizing a Palestinian state goes the

UK and France ended up walking back

their recognition plans just 10 days

before the New York conference was set

to begin so was all the talk about a

tougher stance on Israel just the Sherad

or was there something deeper at play

that's because they are ashamed they're

embarrassed that Israel is just getting

to a new level of depravity

including the starvation and they just

can't justify it anymore i suspect that

it is a combination of

uh the pressure from below that is the

pressure from the uh disenchanted

citizens of these countries

uh and the interest of the political

leaders in establishing

uh stability domestically and

uh a measure of

uh support

uh politically

at home the British people also have

been in the streets in the streets

across Britain and I think at one point

or another the government would have to

respond this also a weak response why is

it weak because it doesn't have any bite

it's a lot of bark very little bite the

reality is Britain Germany the EU they

could literally restrict arms from

getting to them they could enforce a

blockade where American aircraft

couldn't even get to them but they chose

not to they choose to stand at a podium

and deliver some fancy speeches but it's

literally to cover their remarks

meanwhile the UK has sent over 500 spy

planes that hovered above Gaza between

December 2023 and March 2025 to get a

bird's eyee view of the genocide as it

unfolded witnessing everything and doing

nothing so despite all the concerned

speeches concrete binding actions are

nowhere to be seen we know that the rest

of the world is with us and we don't

care if Europe is with us or not with us

it's the European money that we want to

see halted it's the European supply of

weapons it's the European free trade

that we want to see halted and that's

when we'll begin to say that indeed

Europe is with us but those steps still

haven't materialized so it's their way

of being able to have their cake and eat

it too and that raises the question what

slice of the cake does the EU get really

what does EU gain from its unwavering

loyalty to Israel the short answer not

much the EU is Israel's largest trading

partner but the relationship is lopsided

israel heavily depends on Europe for

trade with over 30% of its imports

sourced from the EU primarily in defense

technology while contributing just 0.6%

to EU imports in fact Europe doesn't

need Israel at all when you look at what

it is that Israel is providing to Europe

it is absolutely nothing except for one

thing that it appeases their guilt and

they're forcing Palestinians to pay the

price for the Holocaust that they

carried out or that they ignored in

financial terms the guilt cost Germany

nearly $39.3 billion when it signed a

reparations agreement with Israel in the

aftermath of World War II the money

helped build Israel's early

infrastructure and economy as well as

its military edge from that point on

Germany's support for Israel became an

atonement policy even aaton or reason of

the state a never again that now

apparently involves looking the other

way when Israel commits its own

holocaust it was the guilt feeling and

the

repayment time kind of thing that the

Zionists utilized and have utilized and

developed into what Norman Finkelstein

calls the Holocaust industry where they

capitalize on this immense guilt feeling

in European capitals zionism has in a

way um

held the west hostage

in a in a very deadlocked kind of of of

grip because of holocaust norman

Finkelston American political scientist

and author of the Holocaust Industry

argues that Israel and its allies depict

the Holocaust as the worst genocide ever

committed and the only Holocaust the

world has ever witnessed this narrative

has been used to portray Israel as a

perpetual victim to justify its

aggression against its non-Jewish

neighbors as self-defense and to silence

all criticism of Israel by framing it as

anti-semitism or somehow the denial of

Jewish suffering and under that shield

Israeli leaders have continued to expand

the state's illegal settlements and

entrench its brutal occupation as part

of its racist settler colonial project

all carried out to obtain their

political goals and that is to steal the

land from the Palestinians and get rid

of the Palestinian people and to just

the same as colonizers have been doing

for hundreds of years from the global

north against the global south kill the

people kill the women kill the offspring

steal the fishing boats burn down the

villages take the land make it

impossible to trace the people through

the epistemicide in order to say in a

100 years no there was nobody here no

who are you talking about palestinians

which Palestinians there was nobody here

we took the land it was empty it is a

system so detailed in its devilishness

that you could not have plotted it if

you didn't have a master plan based on

deeprooted racism and supremacy

and I I I think that white supremacy

and Zionism

has a lot in in common

is Israel a pariah state yes is Israel a

rogue state absolutely but the question

for me is when are governments going to

recognize that and when are they going

to do something about it i think that

it's unavoidable for Israel to become a

pariah as Europe's halfbaked rebukes and

Washington's weak PR stunts allow Israel

to continue carrying out its genocidal

expansionism a larger question emerges

has Israel's lawless carnage and brazen

defiance of international law turned it

into a global pariah from South Africa's

2024 ICJ case accusing Israel of

genocide to widespread protest spanning

the globe a reckoning is unfolding one

that goes beyond the West but what makes

a country a pariah state and does Israel

fit the bill pariah states are global

outcasts and scholars point to six key

traits defying treaties by using weapons

of mass destruction supporting terrorism

lacking democratic governance violating

human rights promoting radical

ideologies or committing acts of

military aggression abroad so how does

Israel measure up first the use of

weapons of mass destruction israel has

used white phosphorus generally deemed

to violate international humanitarian

law when used in densely populated areas

such as Gaza it has also used thousands

of US supplied MK84 bombs which are

unguided 2,000 pound explosives that

wreak indiscriminate destruction to

effectively flatten Gaza raising its

neighborhoods and infrastructure and

slaughtering thousands including

children sheltering in tents gaza's been

decimated we've seen that the now Israel

has practically flattened the largest

Palestinian city which is Gaza city

israel has bombed each and every

hospital this is against the rules of

international law and it's against the

rules of logic second supporting

terrorism in 1982 Israel's allied

Felangis militia slaughtered up to 3,500

Palestinian civilians in Lebanon in what

became known as the Sabra and Chhatila

massacre the occupied West Bank also

witnessed daily violent acts of terror

with more than 900 Palestinians killed

since October 2023 by Israeli forces and

illegal Israeli settlers often armed and

shielded by the state there's no way

that this ends that doesn't leave Israel

a pariah state with occupation and

apartheid on borrowed time third the

question of democracy while Israel touts

itself as the only democracy in the

Middle East its actions and laws suggest

otherwise since its violent ethnic

cleansing of Palestine in 1948 and its

occupation of the West Bank and East

Jerusalem beginning in 1967 the Israeli

state has imposed a crippling blockade

on Gaza ongoing since 2007 as it

continues to subject Palestinians to

brutal military rule discriminatory laws

extrajudicial surveillance and mass

incarceration and within Israel the

government raised the electoral

threshold from 2% to 3.25% 25% in 2014

in an attempt to block the already

underrepresented Palestinian parties

from entering the parliament

then in 2018 Israel passed the nation

state law cementing Jewish supremacy as

a constitutional principle by defining

Israel exclusively as the nation state

of the Jewish people with no mention of

democracy equality of minority rights

and downgrading Arabic removing it as an

official state language the whole world

knows that Israeli settlements are

illegal they're against international

law they're even considered to be a war

crime you don't need to be an

international legal scholar to know that

fourth human rights violations from

deliberate starvation and the bombing of

schools hospitals and refugee camps to

the killing of civilians aid workers and

journalists as well as repeated

violations of every ceasefire since

October 7 rights groups say Israel's

actions constitute flagrant human rights

abuses israeli occupation is already a

pariah state the whole world outside of

um a handful of European nations and the

United States and by the way the people

in those nations actually see Israel as

a pariah state their governments choose

not to and the governments continue to

support ethnic cleansing and genocide

and a holocaust at this point fifth

promoting radical ideologies despite

being illegal under international law

Israel continues to expand and promote

its settlement in the occupied West Bank

and East Jerusalem with state ministers

proudly championing the annexation of

Palestinian land the expansionist vision

to seize land they believe was part of

greater Israel and given to them by God

has enabled more than 700,000 settlers

to illegally move into occupied

Palestinian land since 1967 just the

other day an Israeli member of the

cabinet was on an Israeli television

station and he turned to the camera and

he said "We killed 150 Palestinians just

yesterday and nobody is stopping us."

For him it means let's continue if

nobody is stopping us let's continue so

whe when you look around and you see

that for

58 years

that all that Israel has been able to do

is get away with murder literally murder

it cements in their mind this idea that

they can do whatever they want to do and

that's what Israel's been doing is

they've been saying to the world "Try to

stop us just you try." Finally military

aggression abroad israel carried out

military aggressions against at least

four other countries in 2024 from its PA

attacks in Lebanon which killed 12 and

injured at least 3,000 civilians to its

air strikes on Syria Yemen and Iran

there's no question that the large

numbers of people are

viewing Israel as a pariah state

probably the most severely perceived as

such

uh at least since South Africa's 's

racist apartate state and possibly since

uh Hitler's Germany israel continues to

frame its actions in Gaza as

self-defense against Hamas but the

reality on the ground tells a different

tale one that severely undermines any

claims Israel has been making of moral

legitimacy it is fair to say that Israel

has

uh endured this defeat in what I call

the legitimacy war and often

these struggles are

determined in the final stages

not by which side has the superior

military capabilities

but by the side that wins the legitimacy

war

and in that sense

the Palestinians are winning the

legitimacy war yet Israel has so far

evaded the pariah status quickly

assigned to others by the West russia's

invasion of Ukraine prompted immediate

Western sanctions sports and culture

bans and widespread displays of

Ukrainian flags across Europe and the US

in an attempt to isolate the aggressor

Russia in contrast the West has failed

to impose similar measures on Israel

even as it commits one atrocity after

the other while western nations haven't

officially designated Israel as a pariah

state it's unsurprising that it

continues to back Tel Aviv as pariah

states often receive support including

advanced weaponry from those who assign

them the pariah status and that makes it

extremely difficult to translate

this pariah status

into a political outcome

that will

uh achieve fundamental Palestinian

rights

above all the right of

self-determination

i think they're only going to do

something about it when Palestine

becomes an issue on the ballot box

when it's not an issue on the ballot box

when our global humanity is not an issue

on the ballot box then we're going to

continue to see Europe behaving the way

it is the world at the same time is

waking up to these realities and they

are determined to stop it because that's

the moral thing to do that's the ethical

thing to do that's the human thing to do

in a fair world Israel's genocidal war

would have ended long ago but even after

killing more than 55,000 Palestinians

and reducing Gaza to ruins Tel Aviv's

staunchest backers have refused to

impose any serious measures to hold the

country accountable millions of people

around the world are now stepping up and

taking bold actions to try to stop

Israel in its tracks in the absence of

any concrete action by their own leaders

so will Western governments continue to

support Israel or will they cave to

pressure and finally take action to stop

Tel Aviv before it's too late

Is the West beginning to shift its stance on Israel’s war on Gaza?