Zvi Bar’el in Haaretz: ‘Less than two weeks remain for Benjamin Netanyahu to launch a new war that could secure his reelection.’

And: ‘With war off the table, there is no other choice. We'll have to settle for normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia. How we counted on Riyadh to hand our supreme leader the winning card – proof that we can make peace without peace, without withdrawing from the occupied territories, without a Palestinian state and without Israel's Arab citizens.
After all, what did we ask for? That bin Salman be like Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, the ruler of the United Arab Emirates who signed the Abraham Accords, or like Morocco's King Mohammed VI, or maybe like, what's his name, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi.’

As well: ‘And nothing. Suddenly, the Saudi crown prince is a man of principle.’

A man of principle. But war will save us, at least some of us.

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