Aaron David Miller

And with Trump's support, it is conceivable that Benjamin Netanyahu, already the longest governing prime minister in the history of the state, could win an election with a different government, right of center minus the extremists, two extremist parties.

Accountability, it's hard to believe.

But I don't see anything.

It'll take a government decision to appoint a state commission of inquiry.

The prime minister, Shin Bet, Mossad, DMI, the director of military intelligence, all of that.

There has to be some reckoning at a minimum.

Forget accountability.

To understand exactly why...

October 7th was possible and why the Israeli Defense Forces could not save during the first 24 hours the civilians in the Gaza envelope communities adjacent to the border.

Look, you know, one of the most disheartening things to me

And I'm very conscious of the fact that in an existential conflict, or one that the party is perceived to be nearly so, the influence of outside actors, however well-intentioned they may be, are minimal.

I still do not understand why.

in the course of two years, the international community, key Arab states, both Israel's treaty partners and Abraham Accord country partners, and the United States failed to impose a single cost or consequence.

A single cost or consequence.

That would have altered the trajectory of either of these combatants.

And the International Court of Justice will continue to debate and will at some point make a judgment on the issue of genocide.

That's not going to solve or fix anything.

I would have argued that instead of virtue signaling and doing performative things on the issue of Palestinian statehood, Europeans ought to have looked at their relationship with Israel.

The second largest trading bloc is the EU.

Europeans did nothing.