'Netanyahu said: “The rape of Palestinian detainees by Israeli soldiers in Sde Teiman caused enormous damage to Israel’s image and to our army. This may be the most serious propaganda blow Israel has faced since its establishment. It requires an independent investigation." ...'Video onxcancel.com/Gaza24Live/status/#Palestine #Israel @palestine
Mate, support from Western governments and Press for this shit has shattered decades worth of diplomacy and subtle propaganda to build an impression of a Rules Based Order led by the West amongst non-allied nations, which add up to most of the World.
Such a massive diplomatic self-goal that destroyed a positive perception of it amongst countries like Brasil and India makes the West's problems even worse and accelerates China's path to global dominance.
This is even worse for countries like the US whose above average success is anchored on global elements like having the World's Reserve Currency, de facto control of most Oil-production during an Oil-based Technological era (now fading), having pretty much defined the global standards of Intellectual Property protection, International Trade and so on, though it's also damaging for the EU whose soft power depends mainly on Trade and Diplomacy, both of which are affected by goodwil in other nations towards it and in the international institutions which matter for things like trade standards.
Considering how shitty shit small and unimportant Israel actually is, the US-aligned West immolating its goodwil amongst the public in most of the World and diplomatic power versus the governments of those nations, is an excessive sacrifice, whose effects have barelly started to be felt (though the difficulties the West is already having in trying to isolate an imperialist and warmongering Russia are a pretty good indication of how the influence of the West has severelly waned).
The wisest course of action would've been to cut Israel off.