Many apologists for Israel and its government claim that the recent sea change in Western attitudes towards Israel is largely due to Hamas propaganda. Such are much too generous in this accreditation (as well as implicitly condescending of Western peoples). The Palestinian motto “from the river to the sea,” unreasonable and pragmatically impossible in light of the facts on the ground, only appeals to an extremist minority and repels the rest.
It is rather that the Israeli government and Jews, both Israeli and Diaspora, have become their own worst enemies. In their hubris, the Netanyahu government thinks that they can do in Gaza what the Americans could not do in Afghanistan, namely, to extinguish the organization that massacred innocent civilians. Even if the IDF could exterminate Hamas, they could not extinguish the animus. Other violent partisans would just replace them.