from Daily Sabah
Can you “fix” a reputation? It isn’t a kitchen sink, after all. But still, nations, like individuals, can make repairs, and if they play their cards right, they can mend their tarnished national image. A nation’s reputation is basically all it has: In its absence, neither its natural resources nor its place in the history of international relations could help it continue enjoying trustworthy partnerships.
An individual needs to admit the mistakes they made to fix their reputation. This rule also applies to nations: "We regret the actions we did; we won’t repeat them." As individuals, nations have to prove the value of their words through actions that would make other nations believe their sincerity.
Israel seems to be inching closer to ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office. However, the reason is not that he dragged his country into committing the “crime of the crimes,” with genocidal intent, by destroying and exiling the majority of a group of people because of their ethnic identity. Had Netanyahu not created the largest fire in the Middle East since the British started in 1916 by signing the Sykes-Picot agreement with France, the Israeli Supreme Court probably could not have had the guts to overturn the so-called judicial reform that gave Netanyahu's government impunity from judicial review. Netanyahu had agreed to curb the court’s authority of judicial review in exchange for the support of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power), a far-right political party that has been referred to as the Kahanist and anti-Arab terrorist group.
Not only that, but Netanyahu had also given Cabinet positions to all three members of the government. It’s Chairperson Itamar Ben-Gvir’s actions as the minister of national security since 2022 and his hate speeches since Israel’s military and political atrocity started after the Hamas raid on Israel towns and farms in the occupied territories. His speeches have been submitted in the “application” South Africa filed with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Dec. 29, 2023, accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. The 84-page South African document maintains that Israel has "intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnic ... group in the Gaza Strip.” Ben-Gvir’s as well as Netanyahu’s actions and speeches clearly fit under the definition of genocide in the Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory...
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