GAZA (Dispatches) – A former general with the Zionist regime’s army and the leader of the regime’s left-wing opposition party has said the Zionist regime risks becoming a “pariah regime” and that a “sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not give itself the aim of expelling populations”.
“Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah regime, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like sane,” Yair Golan, leader of the Democrats party, told Israeli public radio in an interview on Tuesday.
Golan’s words drew a heated response from Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and center-right opposition leader Yair Lapid, but come at a time of growing international criticism of the Zionist regime as it continues its war on Gaza and blocks deliveries of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave.
Netanyahu accused the former military officer of “wild incitement” and of echoing “the most despicable anti-Semitic blood libels against IDF [the Zionist regime’s offensive forces] soldiers and Israel.”
Israel has significantly escalated its genocidal campaign in Gaza over the past few days, intensifying ground operations and launching widespread air strikes across the enclave. These attacks have killed more than 300 people in just the last three days, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Israel has now killed more than 53,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
An Israeli doctor serving as an army reservist has compared killing people in Gaza to “eliminating cockroaches” in a post on social media.
Writing on X, Sabo Amos, who works as a surgeon in the Zionist regime’s public healthcare system, said he had volunteered to take part in “eliminations” after his battalion had killed dozens of Palestinians the previous day.
Amos said he had requested to take part in operations “within the framework of preventative medicine”, but said another doctor had suggested his involvement was a matter of “public health”.
“On second thought, he’s right. After all, we’re talking about eliminating cockroaches and other loathsome insects,” Amos wrote in the now deleted post.
Later on Sunday, he posted an image which he said showed Israeli soldiers participating in an afternoon Jewish prayer service in a mosque in northern Gaza.
“Every few minutes, machine gun fire or tank shells hit Gaza. Grind them,” he wrote.
Amos previously called for Gaza to be “erased” in a post on X in August 2024.