OPINION – Gaza, ceasefire, IDFThis weekend saw the abrupt end of what was one of the few modestly optimistic phases of Israel’s nearly two-year-long war on Gaza. Growing numbers of reservists are now refusing to report for duty, and the military is considering an appeal to the diaspora”. And a classified Israeli military intelligence database put the group’s losses at less than 9,000, according to a new investigation by The Guardian and +972 magazine – far less than was previously indicated by Israeli sources. For now, Jewish public opinion within Israel still substantially supports the IDF and the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza by whatever means necessary. But in the UK at least, the Labour government’s current approach suggests that may be little more than clutching at straws.