"Israel is not a superpower" that needs external support from "friendly countries" in order to survive

Less than two and a half weeks after Operation Protective Edge, Israeli historian Muki Tzur confirmed that Israel is not a superpower at all, but rather a state that is under the burden of a severe crisis as a result of its foreign policy in general and specifically regarding the Palestinian issue.
Among other things, the speech delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the US Congress on July 24 has led even Israeli analysts and opinion writers to recall a fact recently proven by developments related to the war on Gaza: Israel is not a superpower, and in order to continue to exist it needs not only external support in the form of money and weapons, but also international political cover from “friendly countries.” Before this restoration, it was pointed out in more than one place, including in reports by specialized Israeli research institutes, to what was described as a reversal of the international sympathy and support that Israel enjoyed following the events of October 7, 2023, perhaps in an unprecedented manner in recent decades, and their replacement with sharp, escalating criticism, official accusations being considered by the two international courts in The Hague, sanctions that are expanding day after day against settlers and settlement gangs in the West Bank, and a clear decline in Israel’s foreign relations and international standing, whether with multiple countries at the level of bilateral relations or at the level of its relations with international bodies and its standing in them.
As Israeli historian Alexander Yakobson wrote, at a time when Israel is fighting on both the southern front (with the Gaza Strip) and the northern front (with Lebanon), and a militia from Yemen (the Houthis) is imposing a naval blockade on it and attacking the city of Tel Aviv in broad daylight, and at a time when the United States is not only supplying Israel with the weapons and ammunition necessary for the fight, but is also, for the first time in the history of the conflict, activating a direct Arab and foreign military force to protect the skies of the occupying state from missiles, it is time to take into account the seriousness of the threats facing the state, and at the same time its need for continued external military and political support.
Before Yakobson, another Israeli historian, Muki Tzur, confirmed, less than two and a half weeks after Operation Protective Edge, that Israel is not a superpower at all, but rather a state in the grip of a severe crisis as a result of its foreign policy in general and specifically regarding the Palestinian issue, at the core of which is adherence to the occupation and opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Added to this is the domestic policy adopted by the full right-wing government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, which was formed at the end of 2022, based on the results of the November 1 elections, and revealed a clear picture of the evolution of Israeli society, as the population clearly expressed their strong support for the extreme right represented by Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir. This is the right-wing movement that says, in a clear voice, that Israel has the right to exercise its sovereignty over the lands of the West Bank and to strengthen its Jewish supremacy between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. These results enabled Netanyahu to establish a fully right-wing government, in which Smotrich and Ben-Gvir hold high-level positions, such as defense and internal security, with the justification that this is “what the voter ordered.”

Before this government, there was a government that described itself as a “government of change,” but not foreign policy, despite voices warning that the military control over the Palestinians in the 1967 territories and the festering wound of the occupation will explode as happened on October 7, and this is only the beginning.

As the war of extermination on Gaza continues, there are no signs on the Israeli horizon of an alternative to this policy, in addition to the continued cohesion of the entire right-wing government coalition, which the Israeli chemist Aharon Tschenover, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004, diagnosed as fueling its engines, half of which is composed of corruption and the political and personal interests of its president, Netanyahu, while the other half is composed of the messianic and extremist nationalist ideas adopted by the religious Zionist movement, which it is trying to impose by force on all the joints of the state, as well as on the army, police and other security branches.

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The fuel that runs its engines (Israel) is half made up of corruption and the political and personal interests of its president, Netanyahu, while the other half is made up of the extremist Christian and nationalist ideas that the religious Zionist movement adopts, and which it tries to impose by force on all the joints of the state, as well as on the army, police, and other security branches.