An op-ed in Britain’s The Independent on May 21 by a prominent Israeli warns of a coming “day of reckoning” for Israel. Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli consul-general in the United States and political adviser to two of its prime ministers, Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak, writes that the recent actions by the U.K., French and Canadian governments in opposition to Netanyahu’s policies should be seen as a warning to Israel.
After noting that such actions reflect a turn against the regime’s policies, he points out the obvious: Ultimately, only the United States and President Trump can stop Israeli aggression. Pinkas warns that “a wider day of reckoning” is on the horizon for Israel, and to avoid that, the country needs to change its government.
The conclusion he reaches is one increasingly heard from opposition voices in Israel, which are growing as the unapologetic genocide conducted by the Netanyahu Greater Israel fanatics escalates. “When you have ignored, derided and defied allies’ ideas and policy suggestions since 1967, instead nurturing a false sense of victimhood and a ‘The world is against us’ mentality for political expediency,” he warns that “there may indeed come a day of reckoning. To avoid that, Israel needs to rid itself of this government.”
