a good start? a good reminder of realities ignored? or what other possible title fits here but israel is paying the price, or more accurately we're paying it, as their economy is about dead in the water; 

It is unheard of when the headlines of Israel’s mainstream newspapers and the slogans of the BDS movement are almost identical. No state on Earth has been able to inflict so much damage to the Israeli economy as the State of Israel itself, and the result is growing indications that the Israeli economy has reached an impasse, with no path forward as long as the state remains an apartheid Zionist state rejected by the whole world except the U.S and Germany.

When Israeli protestors against the government carried a huge sign with the BDS slogan “From startup nation to shutdown nation” it was nothing short of a copyright violation. But this was in February 2023. After October 7 everything changed.

Israel’s genocidal attack on the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, more than 15,000 children and may well have doomed over 146,000 additional Palestinians from Gaza to die in the upcoming months from health complications due to injury, starvation and disease. The war has ruined the lives of 2.3 million people in the Gaza Strip, and of thousands in the occupied West Bank. Estimates by the UN are that 70% of the houses were destroyed, and that the rubble will take 15 years to clear. Nevertheless, there is little doubt that the Palestinian survivors of the genocide, though traumatized, impoverished and mourning their lost family members and friends, will eventually rebuild and recover, however long it may take.

The physical destruction in Israel inflicted by the war is minimal in comparison, and yet one thing has been destroyed: the country’s future........more.........