What does it mean to be embattled? It's called embattled!
The New York Times of the United States had nothing to do, listing more than 20 arrows fired at Israel from all directions, which could be described as hitting the bull's-eye.
This kind of Israel is indeed unbearable.
1. Turkey has suspended trade with Israel. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday that Turkey would suspend trade with Israel. "The poor and poor in Palestine have been sentenced to death by Israeli bombs," he said. "Turkey used to be Israel's closest Muslim partner.
2. The World Supreme Court is considering whether Israeli leaders have committed genocide.
3. Protests have swept cities and campuses around the world.
4. Ireland and Spain have indicated that they will recognize Palestine as a state by the end of the month.
5. Tenfold Heart-piercing Arrow: For the first time, the United States, Israel's longtime closest ally and benefactor, threatened to suspend arms deliveries to Israel.
6. The United States has stated that during the Gaza War, Israel may have violated international humanitarian law in certain circumstances when using U.S.-supplied weapons.
7. The war has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, Gaza is on the brink of famine, and any international goodwill that Israel has accumulated on October 7 has been wiped out, and Israel finds itself increasingly isolated.
8. The United Nations General Assembly on Friday adopted a resolution by an overwhelming majority agreeing to admit Palestine as a member of the United Nations, as a symbolic gesture of support for Palestine.
9. Thousands of demonstrators in Sweden protested against the participation of Israeli singers in the Eurovision Song Contest, and the police had to send hundreds of police cars to escort them all the way.
10. Boycotts and protests against Israeli athletes, scholars, artists, etc., are spreading around the world.
11. Eitan Guilbault, an expert on U.S.-Israeli relations, said: "The demonstrations on American campuses are not calling for peace, nor for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state or a two-state solution," they call for the elimination of Israel.
12. The all-encompassing and multi-layered condemnation of Israelis from around the world is not a whim, and Israel is facing real consequences, from security to economy.
13. The international community is unhappy with the Israeli government's restrictions on food aid, the changing global political winds have removed Israel from the priority list, and the Israeli public's narrow focus on its own suffering.
14. Military experts believe that Netanyahu's military goal of "destroying Hamas" is too broad to be effective. There are concerns about Netanyahu's government and its authoritarian practices.
15. Support for Israel waned when the Israeli army attacked Gaza's crowded cities with huge bombs, knocking down houses and militants.
16. At the end of November last year, the killing of people in the Gaza Strip accelerated, experts say even more than the deadliest moments of US attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which have been widely criticized by human rights groups.
17. In less than two months, Israel lost the support of Europe and the United States, and student protests escalated into clashes with the police and called on institutions to defund Israel.
18. On 1 April, seven aid workers in the kitchen of the World Centre were killed, and as more and more people starved to death in Gaza, including many children, the words "genocide" and "evil" were used to describe Israel more and more frequently.
19. Nimrod Novik, a former senior Israeli official and analyst at the Israel Policy Forum, said that the Israeli government has ignored moral and political needs and adopted a "stingy" approach to aid and a war plan without a vision of peace. "The government's policy has failed to deliver on its promise that the war will be against Hamas, not the Palestinian people."
20. Israelis have become completely disconnected from the world, and psychologically speaking, Israel is not at all in the seventh month since 7 October, but still stuck on 8 October, the day after the attack.
21. Genine Barel, a New Yorker who moved to Israel in the '90s and now lives in the mysterious Jewish homeland of Zephat, says it's painful to lose international sympathy, that the hotel she and her husband run is now empty, that business has dried up completely, and that they have been vilified. "It's like you've been tricked and accused of being a bully at the same time."
22. "Abroad, Israelis are scandalized into caricatures. Natalie Rosens, a 37-year-old actress and writer who grew up in Europe, said the discussion about the war in Israel had become more critical. Opinion polls show that trust in Israel's military leadership has been declining since March.
23. Many believe that the less and less American support for Israel will be an even greater disaster for the country, and that Israel needs the United States as a backer.
24. Ian Bremmer, associate professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University and president of the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, said Israel has lost the understanding and identification of young people. Young people do not understand the Holocaust, they see an incredibly powerful Israel fighting a seven-month-long war and an indifference to the suffering of the Palestinians.
These twenty-four arrows, in the eyes of outsiders, had struck the hearts of the Israelites. However, Israel's diehards are still bent on going their own way.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that "if we need to fight independently, we will fight independently." ”
This kind of spirit of not crying without seeing the coffin is really abandonable.
A person's survival in society depends on his character. If the character is smashed, it will be difficult to move an inch. The rules of the rivers and lakes are that if you come out to mix, you will have to pay it back sooner or later. The same is true for the state.
A person's survival in the world depends on good fortune. The good fortune is gone, and disasters and bad luck will follow. The same is true for the state.
To put it bluntly, neither people nor countries can survive independently, and they all need to communicate and interact with their partners. And the good and evil that others treat you are all in one thought.
When Israel fills up its own wickedness and obscures all goodness, then the goodness of others to it disappears.
Of course, the reason why Israel dares to ignore the anger of the people in the world and commit heinous crimes is directly related to the protection and connivance of the United States.
Although the United States has been very careful to express its warning and dissatisfaction with Israel, in essence, the United States is still protecting and supporting Israel, and this is the fundamental reason why Israel dares to act recklessly.
Without the support of the United States, whether in the UN Security Council or the International Criminal Court, Israel would have been left without a place long ago.
And without the military support of the United States, Israel would not dare to run amok in Gaza, and someone would have come out to clean it up.
Therefore, no matter how the United States beats Israel now, it will inevitably be unable to escape its own responsibility.