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The spectacle of humiliation orchestrated by Israel’s Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was the moment when the mask of the “only democracy in the Middle East” finally morphed into the snarl of fascist thuggery.

The EU’s diplomacy has felt the weight of having basically the whole world against its double-standard application of international law and its own values and the accusations of being complicit in genocide and the brutal West Bank-Israel colonialism.

Israel has hit rock bottom—politically, morally, and economically. The era of Benjamin Netanyahu, who led the country from one reckless adventure to another, is coming to an end. But his legacy is a prolonged agony from which merely changing one leader won’t be enough to escape.