David Hirst: For defenders of Israel's war on Gaza, the game is over. Hirst said that after 6 months, the edifice that allowed Israeli forces to kill more than 33,000 Palestinians and wound 75,000 others, displace and then starve more than 2.3 million people, demolish northern Gaza, dismantle health services.
He added that the political leaders who considered this massacre Israel's right to defend itself, the journalists who promoted fictional horror stories about beheaded children and a mass rape, are now seeking to retreat.