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Articles by Yisrael Yoskovitz
The Peace That Survived October 7
The extraordinary drama aboard the Flydubai flight that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia over Chol Hamoed offered an unexpected glimpse into one of the Middle East’s most consequential unfinished stories. Having survived a terrorist attack in the air, Israeli passengers landed the plane in a country with which Israel has no diplomatic relations — and were met with medical assistance and warm treatment.
A Lingering Wound
Fifteen years ago, on August 15, 2005 (the 10th of Av), the residents of Gush Katif were uprooted and expelled from their homes. Twenty-one settlements were vacated under the order of then-prime minister Ariel Sharon. Even today, a decade and a half later, it is not clear why Sharon ordered the expulsion, seemingly eschewing the values he had held dear for years as a public figure.
Naftali Bennet, Back Seat Driver
Ex-Minister Naftali Bennet on Israel’s COVID blunders: “This is the Yom Kippur War of the Israeli economy. But it’s a war without a general and without an army” But with his Yemina party in opposition, Bennett has emerged as a vocal backseat critic of a government he says was negligent in preparing for a fierce second wave of COVID-19. “Israel extinguished the first coronavirus wave with a huge blanket, at the expense of the independently employed and the unemployed,” he says.
Crazy People, Get Off the Roofs
So, who won? Depends who you ask. While the right is projecting an aura of victory and beginning to look for defectors, the leftist camp is recovering from the results of the exit polls and insisting on continuing a needless battle. Meanwhile, the State of Israel and its citizens are suffering and only Ivet Liberman continues to concoct his schemes. Still, it is hard not to be impressed by the man’s remarkable ability to control the narrative in every situation he finds himself in.
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