Netanyahu is blinded and cornered by the gathering of increasingly dark clouds.

By James M. Dorsey

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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other leading Israeli figures appear blinded and progressively cornered by the gathering of increasingly dark clouds.

The clouds, including three separate legal proceedings in international courts against Mr. Netanyahu, other Israeli officials, and the Israeli state, and mass anti-Israeli protests across the globe, threaten to turn Israel into a pariah state.

Add to that stepped-up US scrutiny of the human rights record of Israeli army units, even if the Biden administration has refused to take punitive action.

On the principle of ‘where there’s smoke, there’s fire,’ Israeli conspiratorial allegations that assertions levelled against it in the court proceedings are the product of anti-Semitism and bias against the descendants of genocide victims hardly constitute a substantive response. They are unlikely to dig Israel out of the…