92 percent<\/a> of the enclave\u2019s residential housing and its actions in blockading Gaza have led to a famine being declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRights groups, international bodies, and organisations from within Israel, such as B\u2019Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), have concluded that the country\u2019s actions amount to genocide: a view confirmed by a UN commission of inquiry in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By that month, criticism of Israel\u2019s war had reached near consensus across Europe, and millions attended protests against Israel\u2019s actions in world capitals every weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, marking the ceasefire in the Israeli Knesset on Tuesday, opposition leader Yair Lapid told lawmakers, including United States President Donald Trump: \u201cThose who demonstrated against Israel in London, Rome, Paris \u2026 were deceived by propaganda \u2026 The truth is, there was no genocide, no intentional starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some in Israel are hoping for just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reacting to news of the impending ceasefire over the weekend, Israel\u2019s hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir branded the agreement a \u201cnational defeat\u201d and \u201ceternal disgrace\u201d. Others, such as Amit Halevi, a member of the Israeli parliament representing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party, went further, saying Israel should have declared \u201cto Hamas and to the whole world that the Jewish people will not forget or forgive until the complete annihilation of the neo-Nazis in Gaza and the restoration of Israeli control over this strip of our homeland\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
International amnesia<\/strong>Earlier this month, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he saw no reason for Germans to continue protesting against Israel now that the ceasefire had been reached. On Wednesday, some of the country\u2019s most senior politicians called upon him to resume arms exports to the country, despite the continued death toll in Gaza, and Israel\u2019s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Monday, Israel\u2019s new ambassador to the EU, Avi Nir-Feldklein, suggested that the US might allow the EU to participate in Gaza\u2019s reconstruction if the EU would just \u201cclear the table of what is hanging above our relationship\u201d, he said of the potential sanctions the bloc is considering against Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Toleration of violence <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nWith no drastic reappraisal of Israel\u2019s internal policies towards Palestinians or the occupied West Bank likely, analysts such as Royal United Services Institute\u2019s HA Hellyer suggested that lawmakers in the West and beyond may be preparing for a return to relations similar to the period following the Oslo Accords in the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The accords were supposed to eventually bring about a Palestinian state, but as Israeli intransigence made that increasingly unlikely in the years that followed, Western rhetoric shifted from claiming outright support for the two-state solution to supporting the process towards it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think we can see a similar phase ahead,\u201d Hellyer said, \u201cas long as the violence is below a certain level, it will be acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cFor now, the focus will be moving rubble and rebuilding; not on the fact that half of Gaza remains off-limits to all Palestinians apart from collaborators and the other half remains under occupation,\u201d he told Al Jazeera from Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, while lawmakers \u2013 wary of US pressure and, for some, their own country\u2019s potential complicity in Israel\u2019s genocide \u2013 may be eager for a return to pre-war detente, among the public, especially the young, two years of carnage in Gaza have produced a seismic shift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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