In May, a paper produced by two noted Israeli academics, Eugene Kandel and Ron Tzur, suggested that given,
1. the divisions produced by the country’s war on Gaza
2. and attempts by Netanyahu’s government to untether itself from judicial oversight,


“There’s definitely been a moral corruption within Israel,” said Dr Guy Shalev, the executive director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, which has documented the denial of medical aid and torture of Palestinians.

“The loss of life on this scale and the government’s disregard of the lives of the [Israeli] hostages, eroded what we call in Hebrew,
‘arvut hadadit’, which refers to the sense of mutual responsibility that binds all Jews,”

“The devaluing of human life, especially Palestinian life, which wasn’t regarded as worth much before the war, has been dramatic,”

Shalev added, “I think that fundamentally, if Palestinians lives don’t matter, then eventually all lives matter less.”