and read the forums here .......you think I am unaware of that ??

...I made that comment because the article seems to imply that this is yet to happen, while I believe it already has happened.

After six months of war, many of the hostages are still in captivity and Hamas is still on its feet, but the Gaza Strip is devastated, many thousands of its people have been killed, and most of its population are now famished refugees. Together with Gaza, Israel's international standing is also in ruins, and we are now hated and ostracized even by many of our former friends.

The Netanyahu government has managed to derail even our relations with the United States, as if we have an alternative source for arms and diplomatic backing. The younger generations in the United States, and around the world now see Israel as a racist and violent country that expels millions from their homes, starves entire populations, and kills many thousands of civilians for no better reason than revenge. The results will be felt not only in the coming days and months, but for decades into the future. Even during the worst moments of October 7, Hamas was nowhere near vanquishing Israel. But the ruinous policy of the Netanyahu government following October 7 has placed Israel in existential danger.

That made me read it as a problem that can still be averted...

"If they continue to shape policy, they will lead us and the whole Middle East to perdition."

"Yet if we don't change our behavior toward the Palestinians, our hubris and vengefulness will inflict a historic calamity on us."

The results of netanyahu's regime are already set. The children are dead.

It would take decades of new leadership and strict policies of fairness and human rights actions, and a total renouncement of rightwing ideology to build a new global opinion of Israel at this point.

And I sincerely wish you the absolute best with those efforts.

I cannot predict what will happen in the future, but I hope saner heads will demand Netanyahu’s resignation and will recognize the Palestinians’ right to exist and form their own country. I do not believe that there is a major threat to Israel’s existence, but I think they will need to leave the West Bank and return lands in East Jerusalem to the Palestinians. Israel has been trying to claim all of Jerusalem as their own, but it is a city sacred to all three Abrahamic religions and perhaps should be administered as an international city not under the control of Israelis or Palestinians.

I vote Meretz and have done since Rabin was assassinated.
I completely 100% agree with you .

reflect the politics of Netanyahu's government alone at the expense of everyone else's.

Since you are observing (and experiencing) Israel directly, please tell me if I am wrong on this one: I sense a growing resentment among Israelis of using the entire might and the sacrifices of IDF for achieving such a narrow range of objectives. This has less to do with ideology than it does with abuse of power.

In a country where political consensus is hard to come by, this seems to unify the nation as much as any past war did, this time against the government rather than in support of it.

I don't see this sentiment articulated in the media. Is this wishful thinking on my part, or do you see something like that happening on the ground in Israel?

Everything concerning Israeli politics has to do with ideology.
Yes we unify at times of war but we are a nation so divided between religious coercion on our way of life and
our attempts to hold on to Democracy and freedom .
Much like Lebanon in the past .

Im not sure what difference our protests against this government will make all I can promise you is that they will
continue .

is that Israel and other Arab states were making progress towards normalization of diplomatic ties and trade.
This may have put that away for another geneation.

any chance that Israel will see new elections in the near future so we can see Bibi ousted as PM?

I dont .

Outside the Knesset, outside Bibi's house in Caesaria and every Saturday in Tel Aviv and all across the
country the protesters are screaming for " elections now "

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