Israel’s chance to turn carnage into peace

Collective punishment: Destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip, amid Israel’s ongoing retaliatory attacks on Hamas. Israel’s war crimes in Gaza are verging on the crime of genocide according to the Center for Constitutional Rights. — AFP

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 Center 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.