The poll, conducted by Israel’s national broadcaster KAN News and the Kantar Institute, interviewed a sample of 653 Israelis.
Only 27 percent of Israelis think their government has defeated Hamas in its onslaught on the Gaza Strip that started a year ago, according to a new survey. The results show that 35 percent think Israel has lost the war against Hamas, while the rest are unsure.
Asked if they would be willing to move to one of the communities in southern Israel close to Gaza after the war ends, only 14 percent said they would consider living there, while 86 percent said they were unwilling. Former and current Israeli military officials have also said they are losing the war on Gaza and Hamas is winning.
I’m not sure I’d say that Hamas is winning but Israel is definitely losing. A lot of us have known that bibi’s government has been a terrorist organization since he took office but they did a “good” job hiding it from the masses… Until this overreaction made it impossible to ignore
That assumes previous Israeli governments weren’t terrorist. Remember Ben gurion was considered a left winger/socialist. This entire neocolonial entity/regime is terrorist and Netanyahu is just one symptom/product of it.
I was not following Israeli politics at the time to know it
Israel has been a genocidal settler-colonial project since its founding.
I’m not saying you have to know all the politics of the region. But I believe it’s really important to realize that what we are witnessing isn’t the consequence of one or two bad governments but a structural problem of the colonial Israeli state. Its foundation is one of prejudice against the native populations, land and property theft, mass expulsions, violence, repression and population control.
It can never be otherwise, because that would require them to return the stolen homes and land to their rightful owners(meaning that millions of refugees who have been waiting since nakba could return), give equal rights to natives and as a consequence give up on the Jewish state. Then you’d end up with a state with a pretty big majority of native Arabs and Jews mixed with equal rights, so essentially a Palestine. That’s why Israel can never be anything but a neocolonial, apartheid, genocidal state.
Asked if they would be willing to move to one of the communities in southern Israel close to Gaza after the war ends, only 14 percent said they would consider living there, while 86 percent said they were unwilling. Former and current Israeli military officials have also said they are losing the war on Gaza and Hamas is winning.
This is a big reason why the attacks against Israel will never stop and why Israel is so overboard in their responses. Israel’s enemies need to make sure that Israeli’s don’t feel safe in their own homes. It slows down their colonial expansion as well as delegitimizes the state in the eyes of the Israeli citizens. Israel needs to make sure they are so aggressive to hide this fact. The irony is after doing all they’ve done over the past year, the truth is even more apparent.
Another big problem is that israelis aren’t bound to the land. Most of the colonists just pack up their bags and leave when things get tough just like how they did in South Africa.
