Israel is undermining it´s credibility, claims an editorial in Haaretz, but frankly, in whose eyes?

Israel´s government could claim that the Sun circles around the Earth and it wouldn´t lose it´s credibility in the eyes of the majority of the Americans - after all, even senior figures in the US administration claim that they believe everything Israeli government says because "they are our friends and wouldn´t lie to us" - and in the eyes of pretty much everybody else, except cautious politicians and diplomats - like those in the EU, who are frankly scared of Israel&US - it has lost it´s credibility already.