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middle east Israel has a chance to turn carnage into peace

Israel is running out of time to save itself – not from Hamas, which lacks the means to defeat Israel militarily, but from itself.

Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, verging on the crime of genocide according to the Centre for Constitutional Rights, threaten to destroy Israel’s civil, political, economic and cultural relations with the rest of the world.

There are growing calls in Israel for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign immediately. A new Israeli government should seize the opportunity to turn carnage into lasting peace through diplomacy.

Netanyahu is leading Israel into the same trap that the US fell into after 9/11. Hamas’s goal in its heinous terrorist attack on 10/7 was to goad Israel into

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