Reporting on Palestine from David Hearst of Middle East Eye has been peerless. His latest on the Haniyeh assassination is worth the full read. Hearst essentially traces the ongoing collapse of Zionism, finally connecting the dots from assassinations abroad to the ghastly mess in the Sde Teiman detention facility: "a complete breakdown of the state, similar to the 2021 assault on Congress by Trump supporters"...
Israeli security establishments also know they are in danger of losing command and control over their troops, and if they give the order to withdraw, many units may not obey.
Israel under Netanyahu’s leadership is making the classic mistake of all colonial powers. It is overreaching in the messianic belief that the Jews really are God’s chosen people; that the Bible ordained all of what is happening now, and that Israel can achieve its goal of complete military victory. It is precisely at this moment that it is at its most vulnerable, and that the project could collapse.
In the final years of apartheid, the South African regime went into hyperdrive. It decided to overthrow the government of Angola, install a puppet regime in Namibia, and attack Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia - all fruitless projects that could not stave off regime collapse. Netanyahu’s Israel is treading the same path.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/ismail-haniyeh-killing-netanyahu-only-goal-set-region-fire
