Regional crises have made ‘Israel’ less vulnerable to international condemnation, and have made its future gloomy, a report published on Financial Times website suggested.

Regional crises have made ‘Israel’ less vulnerable to international condemnation, and have made its future gloomy, a report published on Financial Times website suggested.

“While the Israelis and the Palestinians remain locked in bloody conflict, however, the region around them is changing fast. For the moment, those changes are actually making Israel less vulnerable to international condemnation. In the longer term, shifts in global power suggest that Israel’s future will be bleak, particularly if it does not make peace with the Palestinians,” the report said.

“For now, Israel is benefiting from the fact that the Arab world, which has acted as the chief advocate for the Palestinians in previous conflicts, is ripping itself apart. Syria and Iraq are engulfed by conflict, and Libya is in turmoil. The Egyptian government itself has killed hundreds of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo and regards Hamas as an offshoot of the Brotherhood. Saudi Arabia, the other big power in the Arab world, is also deeply hostile to Hamas,” it added.

The Financial times also cited geopolitical shifts that are taking the edge off the anti-Israel backlash. “The governments of Russia, India and China are deeply concerned about the threat of radical Islam at home… China, Russia and India voted in favour of an investigation of possible Israeli war crimes in Gaza, at the recent session of the UN Human Rights council.”

Yet while Israel’s traditional enemies are becoming less hostile, its allies are becoming less friendly. The relationship between Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama is chilly – and some Israeli officials are openly contemptuous of John Kerry, the US secretary of state. Opinion polls in the US also suggest that young people are much less sympathetic to Israel than older groups are. The US Senate voted unanimously to support the Gaza assault and the Obama administration has combined its condemnation of Israeli actions with continued aid and arms sales.