Not because of rockets or boycotts, but because its government has decided that the only way to secure the future is to annihilate everyone else’s. Bulldozers in the West Bank, tanks in Gaza, and a prime minister whose personal survival depends on keeping his citizens permanently terrified and morally anesthetised. Israel is begging to be treated as a pariah, but we keep dressing it up as a partner. Condemn this grotesque betrayal of Jewish history, or keep defending the indefensible until Israel itself becomes the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape. Richard David Hames is an American philosopher-activist, strategic adviser, entrepreneur and mentor and he publishes The Hames Report on Substack.