While Israel is confronted with diplomatic ‘Tsunami’, Trump remains quiet

A headline in Israel’s liberal daily Ha’aretz this week stood strong: “Diplomatic Tsunami is approaching,” warned it, “while Europe is starting to act against Israel’s ‘complete madness’ in Gaza.”

This week’s diplomatic attack has taken many forms, not all foreseen.

From the joint international conviction of Israel’s actions in Gaza, to the shocking murder of two young Israeli embassy staff in Washington, this is, to say the least, a tumultuous week for the Jewish state.

The waves started crashing on Monday evening on the banks of Israel, when Great -Britain, France and Canada issued a joint explanation in which his “gross” actions in Gaza were convicted.

All three warned of the possibility of “further concrete actions” if Israel would continue his renewed military offensive and did not increase the limitations on humanitarian aid.

They also threatened “targeted sanctions” in response to Israel’s settlement activity on the occupied West Bank.

A declaration of 24 donor countries followed and convicted a new, Israelically supported emergency service model for Gaza.

But that was just the beginning.

On Tuesday, Great -Britain suspended commercial conversations with Israel and said that a 2023 route map was assessed for future cooperation.

A new sanction round was imposed on Jewish settlers, including Daniela Weiss, a prominent figure who was shown in the recent documentary by Louis Theroux, The Settlers.

The Israeli ambassador in London, Tzipi Hotovely, was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a move that is generally reserved for representatives of countries such as Russia and Iran.

To make things worse for Israel, the EU’s Chief Kaja Kallas said of foreign policy that preferred a “strong majority” of the members of the block to revise the 25-year association agreement with Israel.

The reasons for this flurry of diplomatic conviction seemed clear enough.

Proof that Gaza was closer to massive hunger than started at some point since the war, after the attack by Hamas in October 2023, sent rimples of horror around the world.

The military offensive of Israel, and the rhetoric around it, suggested that the circumstances in the affected area were about to deteriorate again.

The British Foreign Minister David Lammy focused on Tuesday and excluded the words of the Hardline -Minister of Hardline Bezalel Smotrich of Israel, who had talked about “cleaning” Gaza, “destroy what is left” and moved the civilian population to third countries.

“We have to call this what it is,” said Lammy. “It is extremism. It is dangerous. It is repellent. It is monstrous. And I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”

Smotrich is not a decision maker when it comes to waging the war in Gaza. Previously, his burning comments have been put aside.

But those days seem to be over. Court or wrongly the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen as in the spell of his extreme right -wing colleagues. Critics accuse him of ruthlessly pursuing a war, without taking into account the life of Palestinian citizens or the remaining Israeli hostages who are still being held in Gaza.

Countries that have long supported Israel’s right to defend themselves are starting to say that “enough is enough.”

This week was clearly an important moment for British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, an avid defender of Israel (he once said: “I support Zionism without qualifying”) who was confronted with a stop -stinging in Gaza within the Labor Party for his reluctance last year.

On Tuesday Sir Keir said that the suffering of innocent children in Gaza was “completely unbearable”.

In the light of this unusually coordinated action by some of the strongest allies in his country, Netanyahu reacted furiously, which suggested that Great -Britain, France and Canada were guilty of supporting Hamas.

“For mass killers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers, you are on the wrong side of justice,” he posted on X.

“You are on the wrong side of humanity and you are on the wrong side of history.”

The Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar continued, which suggested that there was a “direct line” between the critics of Israël, including Starmer, and the murder on Wednesday evening of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, the two Israeli museum in the Jewish embassy.

But despite the ponds of sympathy after the shooting, the Israeli government seems to be increasingly isolated, with Western allies and prominent members of the Jewish diaspora all anger – and fear – about the war in Gaza.

Lord Levy, former Midden -East Envoy and adviser of Tony Blair, said he endorsed the criticism of the current government, even suggesting that they might have become “a little late”.

“There must be a position, not only from us in this country, but internationally, against what is going on in Gaza,” he told BBC Radio 4’s The World in one and he described himself as “a very proud Jew … who passes passionately for Israel”.

But quiet, during all this, is the only man who, if he wanted, would stop the war.

At the end of his recent tour through the Golf, Donald Trump said: “Many people are starving”.

White House officials indicated that the US president was frustrated by the war and wanted the Israeli government to “put it on”.

But while other Western leaders release expressions of indignation, Trump says almost nothing.