War on Gaza, the view from Israel
Al Jazeera
Public support for Israel’s war aims may be faltering, but not necessarily for the reasons many might expect.
As the war on Gaza closes in on eight months of violence, support in Israel for the campaign is waning.
Columns in The Jerusalem Post speak of compassion fatigue while on the fringes of Gaza, reservists tell American journalists of the toll the relentless violence has taken.
None of this concern, or compassion fatigue, extends to the more than 36,000 Palestinians killed so far.
“I believe the Israeli public’s support for the war might be flagging,” Shai Parnes said by phone from Jerusalem, “but probably not for the reasons you’re thinking.”
Parnes, spokesperson for the Israeli NGO B’Tselem, which documents human rights abuses in Palestine, spoke over a shaky connection about a consistent ache in Israeli society over the absence of the captives taken to Gaza on October 7, the economic cost of the war and the toll on reservists who have interrupted their jobs or studies several times to wage war on a besieged enclave that is mostly rubble now.
