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Israel Is on the Brink of the Abyss
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing to plunge Israel into an abyss. The hostages are languishing in Hamas captivity in Gaza, and their families have been labeled an obstacle in the country's road to "total victory."
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Canadian
17:36 16.03.2024It's OK to charge the political elites currently in power, claiming for early elections to oust them out of office - but is there in sight a credible leader with a renewed poltical project ? one who would show enough courage to rally the public opinion towards a resolution of the fundamental issues of Occupation, land grab and Apartheid, and lead Society towards Peace
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Andrew Arato
23:24 15.03.2024With each passing day, the government is deepening the hole in which Israel is trapped. But since the politicians are primarily concerned with keeping their jobs, the only way to topple this disastrous government is by bringing masses of people into the streets. That is now the order of the day.
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absurdity
23:21 15.03.2024In one word: Fascism.
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Sandra Chitayat
20:06 15.03.2024Like being in a mental hospital & they force you to take their medecine. Coercively forcing it down your throat.
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jmundstuk
19:56 15.03.2024Go to elections NOW!
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Only half a Jew
17:58 15.03.2024Good by Israel, it was fun while it lasted. The new Israel won't be fun anymore.
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Carol Scheller
15:03 15.03.2024Cease-fire NOW !
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Walter
14:15 15.03.2024In the end, there will be only one solution to get Israel and the United States out of the Gaza war morass: Israel joins the United States as the 51st state.
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Lorraine
02:36 15.03.2024This article asserts "In the absence of any clear goal, compounded by [Netanyahu's] stubborn, irresponsible refusal to discuss the postwar situation"...the abyss looms. But Netanyahu is not offering any goals because he doesn't have any, of the political sort, anyway. His goals, as always, are purely personal: save his own neck from any kind of accountability, legal or political. And the abyss has been looming for a long time. The obscurantism and dangers of religio-political fanaticism has continuously gained ground because of colossal weakness among all the great heros. It first appeared on the day the government allowed the settlers to start dragging the entire country into a borderless Never Never Land, with increasing corruption, duplicity and violence (although maybe it began on the day that someone--Ben-Gurion?--kowtowed to the obscurantist demands of the Haredim). All of this was visible for decades--but the great heros could not see.
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FishTank
08:00 15.03.2024LorraineHi, Lorraine, the editorial barely begins to fathom the depth of the abyss. But I'll ask you something a bit off topic. Like you and others, I've had my share of problems with censorship. If I read you correctly, this happens when a reader objects to the content via the Report button, but I don't remember you saying that "the desk" can initiate a ban. My experience, including as lately as yesterday, is that a comment even praising an article (but critical of the run of the mill) can be rejected and never published even after repeated attempts, so it can't be a technical glitch. Will you please... comment?
Lorraine to Fish Tank
08:54 15.03.2024LorraineThe comments system on this paper seems to delete comments automatically if someone reports them, without any moderator reading the comment first to decide if the report is valid. Haaretz has advised me, after complaints by me, to keep copies of my comments for reposting if they get reported/ deleted. Haaretz also claims to read the reported comments after they get deleted and decide whether to restore them or not. I think this latter process is done erratically. All of my comments follow the paper’s own editorial position but only some of my deleted comments have been restored by Haaretz’s seemingly erratic moderator. That has been by experience, at least, so I now always keep copies of my comments and do my own reposting since those who report me do not seem to want to engage me with their point of view but cut off mine.
FishTank
11:29 15.03.2024LorraineThanks for your answers. Neither of you is reporting having been rejected by "the desk" before even posting, so it'll remain a bit of a mystery. First Friday of Ramadan, bigger fish to fry, after sunset if need be. Hope for the best, which isn't very high a bar...
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elliott
01:38 15.03.2024Ben-Gvir and aggressive violence is one of the same, simply incites disdain, protest this person out of politics.
