Al Jazeera June 7, 2025
As a result, the Israeli state has notably lost support among those on the left and centre of the political spectrum in the West;
1. Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice ICJ
2. its prime minister has an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court ICC
3. and Israeli soldiers are facing charges in many countries around the world.

While it still manages to maintain backing in high-level European and American political and military circles, this support is becoming increasingly unreliable in the long term.

This uncertainty is further aggravated by the rise of isolationism on the right in the U.S.
If these trends continue, Israel may eventually run out of dependable supporters in the West and lose its financial and military advantage.

The limits of the Israeli settler-colonial state strategy are increasingly becoming clear. The continued use of settler-colonial policies, characterised by excessive violence, along with the pursuit of regional hegemony, is pushing Israel into an untenable position.

The Israeli leadership may be living in a fantasy world, thinking it can pull off a “New World” model on Palestine and exterminate its population to fully colonise it; or to declare itself officially an apartheid state, seeking to make Palestinian subjugation legal.

But in the historical and geopolitical context of the Middle East, neither of these fantasies is viable.
Global pressure is coming to bear. The expulsion of the people of Gaza has been outright rejected.

The Palestinian people, like any other nation that has survived brutal colonisation, will not leave their country and disappear, nor will they accept life under a colonial apartheid regime.

Israeli leaders may do well to start imagining the very real possibility of sharing land and accepting equal rights, and start preparing the Israeli society for it.