opprobrium

World opprobrium rose against Israel.

For instance, in explaining the need for broad presidential immunity, the court reasoned that a president could be deterred from bold action by “the peculiar public opprobrium that attaches to criminal proceedings.”

A substantial amount of detail in the lawsuit is redacted in what the complaint describes as “a good faith effort to comply with” the defendants’ “overbroad confidentiality provisions ... as well as to preserve the confidentiality and privacy interests of the plaintiffs who wish to avoid opprobrium.”

Aside from any perceived domestic morale boost, however, some observers questioned whether the pager blasts would ultimately backfire, earning Israel yet more international opprobrium and setting the stage for retaliation by Hezbollah.

Her analysis is chilling: Sinwar does not care about Palestinian deaths, since his goal is to stir international opprobrium against Israel and domestic turmoil within, and Netanyahu cares foremost about his political survival and avoiding prison, given criminal cases pending against him, which would be jeopardized if he agreed to a cease-fire deal that his far-right coalition partners object to.