Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Ram Ben-Barak, former deputy director of Israel’s Mossad, said Israel is on its way to becoming a “pariah state” amid a 21-month-long of genocide and starvation. The member of parliament representing the Yesh Atid party has told the Maariv newspaper that Israel is “not North Korea and we do not want to become a pariah state in front of the entire world, but we are heading in this direction”. “If we do not take real steps, we will soon need visas to enter Europe – and they will not grant them to us either,” he added. “Whoever wants to live this way, let them support this government.” An increasing number of Israeli officials are now openly condemning war crimes in Gaza, breaking what was once a political taboo. Acknowledgment of the military’s atrocities has also begun to take hold in mainstream Israeli discourse. Yair Golan, a former deputy chief of staff of the Israeli army, said in May “a sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not give itself the aim of expelling populations”. “Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country.” Israeli forces have killed more than 59,700 Palestinians since the start of the ongoing assault on Gaza in October 2023 with people are also starving to death as Israel continues to block aid from entering the enclave since March 2.