The International Court of Justice crowned a week of diplomatic disasters for Israel. This is what international newspapers and websites wrote in their discussion of the pressures facing Israel against the backdrop of the International Court of Justice’s decision and the previous recognition of the Palestinian state by 3 European countries and the decision of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan.
The Economist magazine says that regardless of Israel’s response or not, the International Court of Justice’s order “presents an immediate dilemma for Israel, in contrast to the request of the ICC prosecutor to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant.”
In any case, the International Court of Justice order caps a week of diplomatic disasters for Israel, according to the magazine.
For its part, the Financial Times describes this week as a week of disappointments for Israel, noting “a profound shift in the mood of international public opinion against Israel since the incursion of its forces into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.”
The Washington Post stressed in an article by writer David Igancios that alleviating the suffering of civilians in Gaza has become a top priority, and the writer calls on the American administration to think about the current day before the next, as he put it.
An analysis on the National Interest website excludes that Israel will succeed in uprooting the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) from the Gaza Strip. The analysis goes back to the exchange deal that Israel failed at the beginning of this month, indicating that the American side does not see fundamental differences in the versions of Hamas and Israel, and believes that the gap between them can be bridged easily, but the Israeli government used this argument to escalate, according to its clarification.
On the other hand, an article in Foreign Policy stated that the existence of a Palestinian state serves the interests of everyone, including Israel and the United States.
The authors of the article, who are Palestinian and Israeli researchers, enumerate the advantages of recognizing a Palestinian state, including “opening the door for a new generation of Palestinians to establish a state that does not derive its roots from political violence.” The article points out that the inevitable result of what happened to Gaza will be “a generation of Palestinians preyed upon by despair and the desire to Revenge”.