On what’s over and what's not – Gideon Levy in Haaretz:

‘An Israeli professor who has been living in the United States for decades was in Israel this week during one of his frequent visits. He teaches at a prestigious university, was born on a kibbutz, is the scion of a family of fighters in the 1948 war and intellectual aristocrats, if there's such a thing in Israel. He is still deeply rooted here, despite the distance of the years, and not only because part of his family is here. From his place of residence in the United States he makes sure to watch the news on one of the Israeli TV channels every evening. Some of his friends are here, and he researches and writes about Israel, among other things.’

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‘He's convinced that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza – he's knowledgeable about the subject due to his profession – and he explains why: There's no definition for ethnic cleansing in international law, but it's a stage on the way to genocide. When a population is evicted by force, and not to a safe haven, but towards a place where they continuing to kill them, that's genocide. There's no longer any doubt that Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in the northern Gaza Strip. Israel is declaring that, and its acts are clear evidence of that. In addition, the IDF's systematic destruction of the entire northern Strip, leaving nothing but ruins in its path, testifies to the intention not to enable a return.
The visitor is convinced that when the International Court of Justice comes to decide whether Israel committed genocide, it will focus on the northern Gaza Strip, as it did at the time in Srebrenica. There "only" about 8,000 Bosnians were slaughtered, most of them men, despite the fact that the city had been declared a "safe area." The Hague and the entire world determined in perpetuity that it was genocide, and the guilty parties were tried and sentenced.’

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‘My visitor discovered that even his best friends, the Israeli liberals, intellectuals and people of peace and conscience, are unwilling to accept it. The differences of opinion have turned into hostility. That never happened before. There was always a supportive camp here even for radical opinions. There were exhibitions of hatred, sometimes even violence, but on the other side there stood a camp that was smaller but just as determined. That's over.’

Read the article here.

Well, radical opinions.

I wrote a few months ago in a Dutch newspaper that the time will come that the most of the Jews outside will try to distance themselves from Israel.

On the other side, it remains to be seen what is left of Israel if the brain drain gets more serious.

Home? Under what conditions does home no longer feel like home?

Srebrenica. The guilty parties were tried and sentenced,

Serbia. No atomic bomb. The NATO bombed Serbia and by mistake also the Chinese embassy over there, remember? Speaking of mistakes.

I'm afraid Israel is a different case, even though Bibi will skip the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Just to be sure.