Israeli Victory is Forever the New Pyrrhic Victory

First, let’s head to Wikipedia for definitions so that we’re all on the same page:

A Pyrrhic victory (/ˈpɪrɪk/ ^ⓘ PIRR-ik) is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat.^[1] Such a victory negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress.

The phrase originates from a quote from Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose triumph against the Romans in the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC destroyed much of his forces, forcing the end of his campaign.

I’ve been meaning to get a piece about this up for a while now, but in the early days it was debatable whether it would be a Pyrrhic victory for Hamas or Israel. Now as each day passes and more of Gaza turns into rubble and more Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank are murdered and more university students inside encampments across the world are arrested and expelled from academic institutions, as more western institutions are looking weak and completely biased, the paper victories are piling up for Zionism and the Zionist state of Israel, along with all its western backers.

Having said that, I think it’s safe to say that these victories come with a painfully severe cost for all parties involved, especially Israel. Each victory, it appears, is similar to a self-inflicted cut on the body of modern day western world order that looks about as conscious as Joe Biden during his public outings. If there’s a cut for all that we mentioned above (i.e. one for each dead Palestinian (estimated around 38k as of June 20), a few for each destroyed housing unit (290,820 as of April, 2024) , a few more for all universities that were destroyed in Gaza (there are currently 0), the the Israeli state is looking awfully wounded at the moment.

Despite all its wounds, and we’re sure there will be plenty more as it opens itself to conflicts on multiple fronts, how is the world supposed to help a state that is responsible for so much blatant, live-streamed carnage? Won’t such a state simply bleed to death?

Hence, the concept of the new term “Israeli victory.”

Israel’s shameless destruction of Gaza has lived up to its Pyrrhic definition: “a victory that is not worth winning because the winner has lost so much in winning it.”

It’s a unique victory in the sense that it is a loss not just for Israel, but a long list of nations, modern institutions and probably a twisted sense of order that have lent it support from all conceivable avenues, whether it is financially, diplomatically or simply supplying it with the weapons required in destroying everything in Gaza.

Or maybe I’m declaring an Israeli victory too hastily?