A new government in Israel would help
The far-right religious and nationalist settler parties need to be totally scaled back to the point of near silence. This is the group pushing to legalise the weaponised rape of Palestinians. That, right there, is peak ‘malignancy of man’, something my father, who spent 4 years in a concentration camp, talked a lot about.
The far-right religious and nationalist settler parties are destroying Israel from within and silencing the left and centrist voices. Israel, in its current iteration, has lost its morality and its mind. Many Israelis would swiftly agree to this.
There is a current morality vacuum in Israel created by two things: Netanyahu’s disproportionate, genocidal response to the tragic October 7th terrorist attack on Israeli people; young, vibrant people with so much living to do. They must never get lost in the discussion, along with the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank.
The second factor in creating this moral vacuum is Netanyahu’s horrible failure to protect the Israeli people from Hamas. Full stop. October 7 highlighted Israeli intelligence’s complacency, bloated arrogance, and failure to properly function and protect its citizens.
October 7 was an intelligence failure of epic proportions, first and foremost.
To answer the question: Has Israel taken enough action to prevent alleged incitement to genocide?
I will only talk about Israel’s action since that is what the question is about (not Hamas.That’s for another thread).
How can Israel, under its current leadership, even contemplate taking such action when humanity, morality, and dignity no longer even occupy space in the Knesset?
While Israel, under Netanyahu, continues to bleed America dry for weapons and funding, and continues to intentionally block and destroy aid as well as endanger and contribute to the deaths of aid workers in Gaza, allow deadly outbreaks to flourish and spread in Gaza thus finishing off what the bombs and bullets miss, call death corridors ‘safe passages’ to the point that the true language around ‘safe passage’ doesn’t even get an honourable mention anywhere anymore, and while Israel relentlessly, viscously breaks international law left, right, and centre with zero fucks given about the consequences, disgracefully legitimises the Israeli military practice of raping Palestinian war prisoners, and while America (among plenty of other countries) continues to be complicit up to its eyeballs in the crimes against/genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, the only action Israel knows how take is hostile, subversive action. “Genocide? What genocide? We’re simply engaging in a real estate dispute! It’s a little bit volatile but that’s because G-D’s on our side and these pesky Palestinians just won’t listen!”