International newspapers and websites focused in reports and analyzes on the disputes within Israel due to the military operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, and on the repercussions of the protests taking place at American universities denouncing the war on the Gaza Strip.

The Haaretz newspaper wrote that Reserve Major General Yisrael Ziv, who is close to the Israeli army staff, advised avoiding an invasion of Rafah “because a strategic ambush awaits the Israelis there.”

Ziv said, "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is lost and does not see the hole into which he and Israel may soon fall."

An article published in Foreign Affairs magazine stated that Israel has gained new allies, as was evident in the confrontation with Iran last month, but it is also facing many enemies that may cost it a lot to confront.

Writers Dennis Ross and David Makovsky saw that "Israel needs new thinking, such as declaring a unilateral ceasefire that would turn the tables on the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Iran, and push forward normalization efforts with some Arabs."

As for The Hill website, it published an article that stated, “A permanent ceasefire in Gaza could lead to a regional revolution that enables peacemakers from all parties to formulate a new vision for peaceful coexistence.”

On the other hand, “The Economist” magazine highlighted the anti-Israel protests and said, “They revealed three fault lines in the management of American universities. First, they destroyed a fragile charter governing freedom of expression in universities, and second, they made clear that the tools that universities have to impose discipline are limited and often useless.” Counterproductive, the protests have finally revealed that university leaders are no better than an average student when they need to consider a delicate issue, such as the trade-off between collective security over individual rights.

In the same context, Cass Mudd, a professor at the University of Georgia, wrote an article in The Guardian in which he said that American universities are facing a wave of repression in the land of the free. He stated that the right has portrayed the peaceful anti-war protests in Gaza as hotbeds of terrorism, and that is an excuse to suppress them.

The writer warns that the current attacks on universities are just a small introduction to what Donald Trump's return to the presidency may mean for liberal democracy in general and higher education in particular, as he said.

Source: Al Jazeera