More than eight months after the Israeli invasion followed by the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza, and the killing of more than 37,000 Palestinians mostly children and women as a result of the Israeli military invasion, international sympathy for Israel has diminished, and it has begun to live in what resembles political isolation. However, the Israelis who lost people in the Hamas attack see this invasion and genocide from another perspective.

When it attempted to “eliminate Hamas,” which was behind the attack, Israel became involved in the longest military conflict since the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, according to a report by Foreign Policy magazine.

Commenting on the current situation and the world’s view of Israel, Shira Efron, director of research at the Israel Policy Forum, told the magazine that Israel started this as Ukraine, and after seven months the world’s view of it has changed from a “victim to an aggressor.”

Existential Necessity

On the other hand, the Israelis view this military invasion of Gaza with different eyes and describe it in terms completely different from what prevails in the rest of the world, as many of them see the campaign in Gaza as an “existential necessity,” according to the magazine’s words.

“For us, it is a war that will never be repeated,” said Avner Golov, vice president of research and alliances at the Tel Aviv-based think tank Mind Israel.

He added, “My generation now faces a question I never thought I would face, which is whether it is possible for a Jewish state to exist in the hostile Middle East.” He went on to stress........

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