Zionist Regime Owes Survival to Perpetual War

Israel’s latest invasion of Gaza is continuation of the Zionist regime’s policy of waging wars to guarantee its own survival, an analyst tells Press TV.

 “The Israelis…cannot survive unless there is perpetual and ever-escalating war and so they are creating the very resistance that they deplore by massacring the civilians,” Kevin Barrett told Press TV in an interview.

He added that the Tel Aviv regime launched its brutal aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip while knowing that “people in the Middle East will hate the Zionists” for their warmongering.

 “That is the strategy for endlessly expanding and trying to create a greater Israel,” said Barrett, who also expressed optimism about the world “waking up” to the reality that the “Israelis are intentionally genociding the civilian population of Gaza.”

 “Every right-minded person in the whole world calls for the destruction of the genocidal Zionist entity,” he said, adding that Israel should be taken to court to face “war crimes” charges.

The UN Human Rights Council recently condemned the Israeli attacks on Gaza as disproportionate and indiscriminate. The council said it has launched an international inquiry into Israel’s violations of human rights in its month-long war on the Palestinian territory.

Zionist Gaza invasion defeated

Meanwhile, according to a new poll, more than 60 percent of Israelis believe a month-long offensive by Tel Aviv’s ground and aerial forces against the besieged Gaza Strip has failed to achieve its goals.

The latest survey by the Israeli institute, Panels Politics, reveals that 66 percent of Israel’s public believes the war did not achieve its objectives.

This comes as Israeli forces retreated from Gaza, claiming that they have achieved their objectives, including destruction of cross-border tunnels in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier hailed the Gaza offensive as a success.

However, the new poll shows most Israelis’ view corresponds with that of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, which says Tel Aviv failed to achieve its goals in its bloody attacks.

Israel has kept tight reins on media outlets with regard to the exact number of Israeli soldiers captured or killed during its ongoing assaults on the coastal enclave. The rising death toll of Israeli forces during the attacks on the Gaza Strip had prompted growing opposition to the war among the Israeli public.

Resistance spokesman, Ihab al-Ghussein, has recently told Press TV correspondent that Israel has only managed to kill Palestinian civilians and demolish buildings in the impoverished region.

The ceasefire is a break from a four-week conflict that has left at least 1,875 Palestinians dead, including 430 children.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki is pushing for a war crimes case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel due to the Zionist regime’s brutal aggression on the besieged region.

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