Our Wednesday News Analysis | Opinion | The World, Not Trump, Defeated Netanyahu

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) arrive for a press conference in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC on September 29, 2025. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP

"The more the Israel Defense Forces struck lethal blows on civilians, the more the world came to understand that this was an unrestrained killing machine."

"Israel can't fight the world, Bibi!”
U.S. President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Well, despite the mountains of hollow words spewed by Trump, in one lucid moment, he expressed a simple truth that deserves to be engraved in golden letters.

Before anything else, we must examine the commonly heard slogan: "The whole world is against us." Or perhaps more accurately: "We are against the whole world." After Hamas's October 7 massacre, almost the entire world stood with Israel. Still, when Israel transformed the campaign against Hamas into a wholesale assault on the Gaza Strip – its sons and buildings – global attitudes dramatically changed.

The more the Israel Defense Forces struck lethal blows on civilians, the more the world came to understand that this was an unrestrained killing machine.

The horrors unfolded in full view of the world. If, in the past, the habit here was to hit and cry foul, the strategy nowadays seems to be to strike and boast. The list of blood-curdling, hair-raising remarks made by senior Israeli officials and influencers could fill an entire book. The world could scarcely believe that genocide was taking place in plain sight – let alone carried out with such sickening pride by the descendants of Europe's 20th-century victims.

Protests against Israel's deeds raged around the world. I cannot remember, nor perhaps those older than I, such waves of solidarity that swept city squares around the world. Palestinian flags popped up in the remotest of places. Rescuing Palestine has become the world's conscientious decree.

I ask myself what motivates an Italian citizen to give up his business one day, his safe routine, to join a stormy protest on the streets for other people, foreign people, living thousands of kilometers away with a different culture and language. Is it antisemitism, as Israelis are quick to claim? Love of Palestine? Or something deeper? I make no pretension to explain this phenomenon. This does merit serious study to figure out how such a heartwarming phenomenon of this magnitude is taking place, mainly in Europe...

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THE DEFEAT OF ISRAEL AND THE REBIRTH OF PALESTINIAN AGENCY

Source: Palestine Chronicle
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-defeat-of-israel-and-the-rebirth-of-palestinian-agency/

By Ramzy Baroud
Published October 12, 2025

If we are to speak of a Palestinian victory in Gaza, it is a resounding triumph for the Palestinian people, their indomitable spirit, and their deeply rooted resistance that transcends faction, ideology, and politics.

Children in Gaza are demanding an end to the Israeli siege. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

Not only did Israel fail in Gaza, or, more accurately, in the words of many Israeli historians and retired army generals, was decisively defeated in Gaza, but Palestinians have managed to reassert Palestinian agency, including the legitimacy of all forms of resistance, as a winning strategy against Israeli colonialism and US-Western imperialism in the region.

This explains the profound fear shared by all parties that Israel’s defeat in Gaza could fundamentally alter the entire regional power dynamics.

For decades, the prevailing notion was that the ‘solution’ to the Israeli occupation of Palestine lay in a strictly negotiated process. “Only dialogue can achieve peace” has been the relentlessly peddled mantra in political circles, academic platforms, media forums, and the like.

A colossal industry burgeoned around that idea, expanding dramatically in the lead-up to, and for years after, the signing of the Oslo Accords between Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Israeli government.

The Unmaking of ‘Peace’

The problem was never with the fundamental principle of ‘dialogue,’ ‘peace,’ nor even with that of ‘painful compromises‘ — a notion tirelessly circulated during the ‘peace process’ period between 1993 and the early 2000s.

Instead, the conflict has largely been shaped by how these terms, and an entire scaffolding of similar terminology, were defined and implemented. ‘Peace’ for Israel and the US necessitated a subservient Palestinian leadership, ready to negotiate and operate within confined parameters, and entirely outside the binding parameters of international law...

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WHY THE WORLD MUST NEVER FORGET THE VICTIMS OF THE GAZA GENOCIDE

Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians
https://jfjfp.com/why-the-world-must-never-forget-the-victims-of-the-gaza-genocide/

Talal Ahmad Abu Rokbeh writes in Middle East Eye on 8 October 2025

Israel's atrocities have inspired a global defence of humanity, justice, and the right of all peoples to self-determination

A Palestinian girl sits outside one of the tents for displaced people in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on 6 October 2025

What has been unfolding in the Gaza Strip for nearly two years is not merely a humanitarian disaster; it is a political crime with profound historical and geopolitical consequences.

It has exposed the weaknesses of international rhetoric on human rights, peace, and security, as such talk has done nothing to halt Israel’s ongoing massacres, nor to curb its policies aimed at forcibly displacing Palestinians from Gaza – now one of the world’s largest open-air cemeteries.

Yet the genocide has also awakened free consciences around the globe, inspiring a collective defense of humanity, justice, and the right of all peoples to self-determination.

Millions of voices have risen worldwide to denounce Israel’s slaughter of men, women, and children in Gaza, alongside the destruction of much of the territory’s civilian infrastructure.

Countries including the UK, France, and Canada, among others, recently announced their recognition of a Palestinian state, stressing the need for a genuine political path towards peaceful coexistence.

Even for states that have long supported Israel, the Gaza genocide has become impossible to ignore.

What has unfolded over the past two years marks one of the most heinous crimes against humanity in the modern era. Civilians have been targeted, humanitarian aid has been blocked, and entire neighbourhoods have been wiped off the map. Food has been used as a mechanism of extermination, with thousands of hungry Palestinians killed by Israeli forces at aid distribution centres.

Israel has flagrantly violated international humanitarian law, disregarding global norms and conventions, as highlighted by a plethora of reports from the United Nations and other human rights groups...

Read more: Why the world must never forget the victims of the Gaza genocide