Could Israel’s Destructive Actions Mean Its Own Self-Destruction?

 By David Starr

 

Israel has become more unpopular worldwide considering its criminal destruction of Gaza; and military aggression against its other neighbors. 

 

Israel, therefore, could be setting itself up for a big fall. Its fascist government has proven time and again that it is willing to employ Nazi-like tactics against Palestinians. Its supporters, many times in fits of hysteria, have further tarnished its reputation.

 

A Pew Research Center survey conducted in March 2025, for example, showed that Israeli support for the taking of Gaza has decreased. Although 42% of Israelis favor its occupation of Gaza, compared to two percent, this “view has fallen 8 percentage points since last year, from 50%.” So, even though a majority of Israelis still support occupation, there is an increase of Israelis who at the least question it.

 

Still, the fascist government has a large amount of supporters in Israel. The latter are just as guilty of supporting attempted genocide as their leaders. But 69% of right-wing Israelis were in favor of occupation in 2024, and now this has decreased to 57%. Not that there is a chance that most right-wingers will change their minds.

 

Owen Jones presented a segment on Israel and the abandoning of it by other nations.

 

Political consultant Peter Field was interviewed by Mondoweiss not only in regards to declining support in Israel, but regarding “the far-reaching effects it’s having on U.S. politics, from local mayoral races all the way up to Trump.” Looking at support in the United States, Pew had an April 2025 poll that also revealed that 53% of U.S. citizens have an “unfavorable view of Israel, up from 42% in 2022.” But the Trump regime, and most politicians, Democrat and Republican, still support Israel “defending” itself, and virtually ignore the Palestinians’ quest for sovereignty and protesters’ support for it.

 

Field noted that “one of the important things is to put polls in the context of other surveys. When you ask about an issue in different ways, sometimes you get very different results. 

 

“However, in multiple polls on Israel, we are seeing the same trend. Israel has a 53% negative rating, which is the majority of Americans’ overall unfavorable viewpoint. In March there was a Gallup poll that showed that Democrats side with Palestinians over Israel 59% to 21%. Then you go back to the CBS/YouGov survey from June of [2024], which showed that 61% of Americans wanted to stop sending arms to Israel.”

 

Looking at Republicans, Field stated that only 37% are unfavorable toward Israel. “Still, that’s a 10-point jump from 2022, when it was only 27%.” Field also looked at younger Republicans where in 2022 35% were unfavorable. “Now, it’s 50%. Israel has lost the older Democrats; it’s lost the younger Republicans. All it has left now are the older Republicans.

 

“So, the propaganda on Israel just hasn’t worked. The media blackout also hasn’t worked, what’s happening in Gaza has really penetrated.

 

“The repression also hasn’t worked. We are seeing that Israel can’t repress its way to popularity.”

 

Muhannad Ayyash, Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada writes in Al Jazeera that “The US fears a free Palestine because it sees it as the beginning of its own end.

 

“There is a single power that stands in the way of putting an end to this genocide: the United States. One administration has handed over to another, and yet there is no change in policy. Unconditional support for Israel seems to be a doctrine that the US political establishment is unwilling to touch.”

 

While analyses have suggested that the special relationship has its roots in the Judeo-Chrisitan religion, Ayyash writes that the main reason the USA is an ally of Israel because “it helps promote US global supremacy at a time when it is facing inevitable decline.”

 

Like other empires, the USA has established, maintained and tries to expand its imperial objectives. It has mainly done this through institutionalized violence, despite its historical degree of democracy. As a consequence, the U.S. empire has gobbled up land, resources and labor in other countries. But this is proving to be back-firing. 

 

The Global South, in particular, is speaking out, against both the USA and Israel. According to freelance writer and teacher Harrison Stetler, writing in Jacobin, “During its genocidal campaign in Gaza, Israel has repeatedly flouted the rules of international courts. While Western states indulge Israeli impunity, a coalition of states backed by left-wing parties is spearheading action to hold Israel to account.”

 

Stetler writes about the founding of the Hague Group, which includes, “the governments of Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa,” with help from the Progressive International. “The group hopes that other states could be willing to join their initiative, which seeks to defend and act upon the rulings against Israel and its political authorities by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ).” It could be possible that most nations of the Global South will join the effort. 

 

This is indicated by a vote in the United Nations General Assembly that condemned Israel for its war crimes. Unfortunately, the General Assembly vote is nonbinding while votes in the UN Security Council are. So, this is not a true representation of the nations of the world.

 

There are examples of representatives of left European parties that attended the launch of the Hague Group, such as “France Insoumise, Ireland’s Sinn Fein, and the Workers’ Party of Belgium.” More left parties and organizations from Europe would be an obvious plus. But Western governments are mainly against bringing the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu and others to justice. 

 

Stetler quoted Rima Hassan, a Franco-Palestinian jurist and Member of the European Parliament, who said, “Nobody should be above the law. That has to be the case even for the West’s ally and protégé, Israel.” Stetler also quoted Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, who has been tenacious in her condemnation of Israel, saying that the West preventing the enforcement of the law against Israel violates Article 70 of the ICC’s founding treaty and may be “a criminal offense in itself.”

 

It looks like Israel is at the point of no return, with its destruction of Gaza and neighboring nations. Thus, could it be sowing the seeds of its own destruction?