Two Years Into Gaza War Israel’s Isolation Intensifies

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00:00Diplomatic isolation, declining support, and growing divisions both at home and abroad,

00:11Israel is at war with itself. That was the headline of a New York Times article marking

00:17two years since the Gaza War, a conflict that left behind unprecedented human and material

00:24devastation. So Israel today very much looks like a military hegemon in the region, but a consequence

00:35of its militaristic approach that appears to have no end in sight and is very unyielding is

00:44the blowback Israel has experienced internationally and regionally where Israel is more isolated today

00:52than it has been in decades.

00:56Economically, Tel Aviv has paid a heavy price. According to Yedioth Aranath, Israel's losses

01:03have exceeded $100 billion, with a budget deficit projected to reach 6% by year's end, and major

01:11cuts in education and health care to fund military spending.

01:15Meanwhile, Gaza remains in ruins. 90% of the strip destroyed, an estimated $70 billion in initial

01:30damages, over 70,000 killed, thousands missing or wounded, entire families wiped out, and children

01:38left without parents, as health and psychological crises worsen by the day.

01:48Two years on, Israel's political and economic isolation deepens, while global solidarity with

01:54Gaza grows stronger.

01:56It is a famine openly promoted by some Israeli leaders.

02:00Shifting from words of sympathy to concrete calls for an end to the war and urgent action

02:07to save those who remain.

02:09One recent event will not be wiped out, however, you will be very interested.

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