Netanyahu harms Gaza and Israel; it is genocide.

The other war Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging is multilateral.

It has burned bridges with the United Nations, that is, with international law. South Africa has accused Israel of genocide before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations' principal judicial body with the authority to issue binding rulings between states and advisory opinions on international law.

In response, President Donald Trump launched a series of harsh criticisms against the South African government of President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing it of carrying out ethnic cleansing against the white population, in a clear attempt to erode Ramaphosa's credibility.

A democracy like Israel's is obliged to fulfill obligations to its own population and to the UN. Theocratic regimes do not fall into this category, nor do terrorist groups like Hamas.

The terrorist invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, is reprehensible and atrocious, that is, inhumane. All terrorists should be brought to justice and face justice for their crimes. However, the Netanyahu government chose the path of revenge (an eye for an eye) rather than that of democratic justice bound by international law, that is, by multilateral organizations.

There are now more than 53,000 Palestinian deaths in the Gaza Strip. Thousands of them children and women.

The critical path to investigating possible genocide or war crimes is long due to the delicate nature of the potential outcome; however, several Netanyahu government officials have facilitated the investigations.

It's common to see no statements from members of a government that may be carrying out genocide, but figures like Itamar Ben Gvir, a settler convicted in 2007 for inciting racism and appointed by Netanyahu as Minister of National Security, break with tradition.

"We mustn't give oxygen to our enemies," Ben Gvir commented last week, referring to the delivery of food aid to Gazans.

One of the ultra-religious officials is Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. Last year, he called for "absolute destruction" in Rafah, the border with Egypt where more than a million Gazans were concentrated at the time.

Netanyahu is responsible not only for what happens in the present. Thanks to him, Israel will have to face terrible collective guilt in the future for the crimes he has ordered his army to carry out.

The guilt of the Nazis has left a scar on the German people. Eighty years have passed since the end of World War II, and the scar remains. More than 6 million Jews were murdered.

The younger generation of Germans is not guilty of what happened, yet officials like Ursula von der Leyen prefer to remain silent about what is happening in the Gaza Strip. Perhaps she feels guilty about what happened 80 years ago. A mistake.

Neither Merkel, Scholz, nor Merz should weigh what happened 80 years ago to make decisions based on what's happening in the 21st century. Particularly Scholz, and now Merz.

It's not anti-Semitism to label Netanyahu's government as ultra-religious and far-right, nor is it to defend international law to act against it.

Without the UN, the stones will return to attack each other. The barbarity occurring in the Gaza Strip must be denounced in all multilateral forums.

Netanyahu, Smotrich, Gvir, and others are damaging Israel's future by committing genocide in Gaza.