Israel’s 93% Jewish-majority war support, as reported by Gideon Levy, reveals a democracy in collapse. This number—straight from the Israel Democracy Institute—echoes North Korean propaganda, not a free society. War fever grips Tel Aviv as the IDF escalates strikes across Iran’s gas infrastructure, with U.S. coordination confirmed by *Middle East Eye* and White House rhetoric from Donald Trump framing Iran as a “terror sponsor.” Yet amid the chaos, 6 million people in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran are now homeless, a figure Levy cites that dwarfs even the devastation of the 2020 Beirut port explosion.
The war’s expansion defies basic logic. The Free Beacon reports Israel’s assassination of Iran’s intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib, who oversaw plots against Trump-era officials, while The Hill reveals Iran’s pivot to Russian and Chinese intelligence networks. Yet these moves only deepen the fog of war. Meanwhile, the UAE—once a de facto U.S. ally in the Gulf—condemns Israeli strikes, signaling fractures among pro-Washington states as Iran threatens to escalate energy infrastructure attacks.
Media censorship compounds the crisis. Levy’s critique of Israel’s self-policing press—reducing it to “an agency of the government and of the military establishment”—aligns with *The Canary*’s claim that Israel’s gas attacks aim to destabilize global energy markets. Here lies the paradox: U.S. “massive, blind, and automatic” support (Levy’s words) fuels both Israel’s military overreach and America’s eroding credibility among Middle Eastern partners.
What this coverage misses is the human toll beyond geopolitics. The 3.2 million Lebanese displaced by Israeli strikes don’t yet have advocates in mainstream analyses. Who speaks for children orphaned in Hama, Syria, as Iran’s Popular Mobilization forces face U.S.-Israel attacks?
Watch for March 23’s Democracy Now! anniversary event: Patti Smith and Angela Davis will likely frame the conflict as a moral failure of their generation. The real test comes when Biden’s administration faces a congressional push to restrict war powers—will it cave to Netanyahu’s lobbying machine or side with a collapsing world order?