The war in Gaza must stop now. It should have ended over a year ago, in the early months of the war, when there was an offer for a comprehensive hostage deal on Netanyahu’s desk. Stopping the war will put an end to the daily killing and starvation of Gazans, and bring the Israeli hostages home. All polls show that an overwhelming majority of Israelis support a permanent ceasefire. And they’re not the only ones.

The whole world appears to want an end to this horror: from Europe and the U.S., to Australia and China, people see the famine and death in Gaza and they want it over. But Netanyahu is staying the course. After promising his voters fifteen months ago that he was "a mere step from total victory," he is now leading us toward what some members of his messianic government ecstatically call "eternal war."

The war in Gaza must stop now. As he continues to drag Israel into committing war crimes in the name of democracy, Netanyahu has seized international attention, but as far as he’s concerned, everyone can keep barking. From mass protests on Israeli streets to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the voices of opposition seem powerless to stop the crimes and injustices.

When the minister of defense, the chief of staff, the director of security service, and the Supreme Court of Israel, as well as every head of state in Europe, demand a plan or an explanation, there’s always an easy solution: the ministers and the generals and the directors can be fired, and the European leaders can be told – as Netanyahu’s own son so tactfully put it – to fuck off [in a message posted on the social network X addressed to Emmanuel Macron, after France recognized the State of Palestine].

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