What it described as the brutality of the Islamist group Hamas' attack on October 7 blamed it from the outset for the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza, but the blind brutality of the Israeli response is about to hold it equally responsible and shame.
The newspaper explained in an article by Thomas Le Grande that the dehumanization of the enemy - on both sides - is what dominates the justification of the terrible killings, and after what it described as the barbarism of Hamas held it primarily responsible, the Israeli reaction and the revenge and racist statements of many leaders of the ruling majority in Tel Aviv began, to realize that the government's behavior there does not apply to a country that adheres to the basic principles that define democracy.
Israel, as a democracy with effective elections and checks and balances, should have respected the Geneva Conventions and international law, but armed militias in the West Bank are increasing illegal settlements supported and encouraged by the government, while the air force is bombing Gaza brutally and indiscriminately in plain sight.
Israel, which has long lost the battle of the non-Western world, is on the verge of losing the battle of Western public opinion, and the people of Europe and America will soon demand what we demand against rogue states of sanctions and boycotts, because Israel risks changing its standing in the eyes of the democratic world, undermining what remains of the moral superiority of democracies in the eyes of citizens in countries of freedom, and is the worst betrayal of Israel's founding fathers.