{"id":902,"date":"2026-05-21T11:39:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/2026\/05\/21\/gideon-levy-says-ben-gvir-sees-all-of-gaza-as-hamas-no-innocent-people-in-gaza-or-even-europe\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:39:40","slug":"gideon-levy-says-ben-gvir-sees-all-of-gaza-as-hamas-no-innocent-people-in-gaza-or-even-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Gideon Levy says Ben-Gvir sees &#8216;all of Gaza as Hamas: No innocent people in Gaza or even Europe&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"t-content t-content--edition\" id=\"main-content\">\n<div class=\"t-content__with-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"t-content__beside-sidebar\" data-article-content>\n<h1 class=\"t-content__title a-page-title\">Gideon Levy says Ben-Gvir sees &#8216;all of Gaza as Hamas: No innocent people in Gaza or even Europe&#8217;<\/h1>\n<div class=\"m-master-tag\">\n<div class=\"a-tag-section\">\n                                    Middle East\n                            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-video-player o-video-player--16x9 t-content__main-media\" data-media-video-6ecafc40-faf7-4975-8fa3-30f6db563338 data-show-hidden-video-player=\"6ECAFC40-FAF7-4975-8FA3-30F6DB563338\" data-wrapper-video-player data-autoplay-video-link data-youtube-script>\n<div class=\"o-em-consent \">\n<div class=\"o-em-consent__content\">\n<p class=\"o-em-consent__content__text\">To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement.<\/p>\n<p>        <button class=\"a-master-button a-master-button--dark\" data-action=\"accept\"><br \/>\n            Accept<\/p>\n<p>        <\/button><br \/>\n        <button class=\"a-link\" data-action=\"manage\">Manage my choices<\/button>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o-em-adblock\" data-adblock-content>\n<div class=\"o-em-adblock__content\">\n<p class=\"o-em-adblock__content__text\">One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. 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He offers a scathing analysis of Israeli politics, the Gaza war, the unprecedented rise of xenophobic nationalism, and Israel\u2019s growing dependence on the United States. Speaking from Tel Aviv amid mounting electoral tensions, Levy argues that \u201ceverything &#8211; war and peace, domestic politics, legislation &#8211; is now covered by the shadow of the upcoming elections.\u201d                    <\/p>\n<div class=\"t-content__body u-clearfix\">\n<p>Levy delivers a moral and geopolitical indictment of both the Israeli government and Western responses to the war in Gaza. He condemns the treatment of the Gaza flotilla activists as \u201creally so shameful that you don&#8217;t want to watch them and you don&#8217;t want to be part of it,\u201d while accusing European governments of empty rhetoric and double standards: \u201cCondemnation means nothing because Israel totally ignores all those European condemnations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most strikingly, Levy depicts contemporary Israel as increasingly isolated, radicalized, and strategically dependent on Washington. \u201cIsrael is in a situation which it was never before: total dependence,\u201d he argues, asserting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u201chas no other choice but to follow the instructions of Donald Trump.\u201d Levy\u2019s offers a stark assessment of Netanyahu as both \u201ca leader in war\u201d and \u201cresponsible for the genocide in Gaza,\u201d language that reflects the intensity and polarization surrounding current Israeli politics.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div 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