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Israeli media reported on the increasing number of Western countries turning their backs on Israel, the partisan polarization in Washington’s policies towards Tel Aviv, as well as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s infliction of severe damage to the four pillars on which Israeli national security is based.

Analysts hosted by the Israeli Channel 13 stated that “Western criticism of Israel is becoming more intense even from some of its strongest supporters, such as Germany, and not only from countries that are considered permanent critics of Israel, such as Belgium, Spain, and Ireland.”

They pointed out that "the longer the war in Gaza continues, the more Western countries will turn their backs on Israel, which is rapidly losing the legitimacy of continuing its war due to the imminent Gaza famine."

Israeli media revealed that Democratic Majority Leader in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, who delivered a speech against Netanyahu, rejected a request from the latter to deliver a speech to members of the Democratic Party in the Senate, at a time when Netanyahu rushed to speak with members of the Republican Party in the Senate via the “Zoom” application. ".

According to Danny Ayalon, the former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, when Washington begins to criticize Israel, "it is certain that other countries will follow suit, and other European countries may go further than the United States in imposing more severe sanctions."

"Netanyahu's damage"

In turn, the former commander of the Northern Corps, Reserve Major General Noam Tibon, blamed Netanyahu, and said that he had caused severe damage to what he called the four pillars on which Israeli national security is based, which are strategic relations with Washington, a strong army, a strong economy, and a strong democracy.

He added, "Netanyahu - systematically - caused great harm to the army, and for the first time in our history the credit rating was lowered because of the government and the failed Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, while our democracy suffered great damage, and now he is causing harm to relations with America."

He explained, "When Israel is weak, our enemies see this because what happened last October 7 is the most dangerous thing that has befallen us, and Israel's deterrence capabilities have been shattered into fragments."

"High price"

Regarding the details of the ceasefire and prisoner exchange between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the former head of the Political Security Department at the Ministry of Defense, Zohar Balti, stressed the need for the government to take decisions that he described as very difficult and pay a heavy price.

He added to Israeli Channel 12, "There are people rotting and their number is decreasing every day (they die), and we must recover them immediately and as quickly as possible, and pay the price. We have no other choice."

Source: Al Jazeera