Philosophies of governance: Why it is impossible for right-wing governments to handle a crisis
Jerusalem-based reporter Isabel Kershner recently wrote about the horrors since the October 7 attack and the worries Israelis have for how the ongoing war against Hamas may go. “All this is happening,” she noted in the article’s third paragraph, “amid a total breakdown of trust between the citizens and the state of Israel, and a collapse of everything Israelis believed in and relied on.” She then quoted a Tel Aviv author, Dorit Rabinyan, who spoke of the sobering reality Israelis are facing because they had chosen Benjamin Netanyahu as their prime minister: “We have woken to a terrible sobriety about whose hands...
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