On despair – Gideo Levy in Haaretz:

‘It starts Sunday. The former director general of the Yesha Council of settlements from Ra’anana will be sworn in as prime minister. Half the nation feels it is going from darkness to light, the other half feels it’s doing the opposite, and in both cases it’s not because of Bennett. He is still bad news, yet not the worst. But the truth is that, save for an extreme, imaginary, inconceivable scenario, Bennett as prime minister is not news. Deducting for all the reforms to public health and to transportation that will or will not be implemented, in the end the Pretoria of the Middle East chose a prime minister, and he will continue to do as the Pretorians do.’

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‘Bennett has nothing to lose: he puts his name either on a forgotten episode, or on history. Either a one-paragraph entry in Wikipedia, a stub article, or books on the history of Israel. Perhaps he is also courageous. Perhaps he knows the truth, deep down, and the truth is that he will be the prime minister of about 14 million people. Five million of them have no rights. They cannot vote for or against him, even though he is their prime minister as well, against their will. In the United States, Bennett must have learned that this can only be called apartheid. And that the prime minister of apartheid is the prime minister of apartheid, and not of Israel or of a democracy. Bennett also knows from history that this situation is reversible. It can be changed in a single stroke, in fact that’s the only way to change it.
It happened when no one expected it to happen. It happened because it cannot go on like this. We are already there, Mr. Prime Minister.’

Read the article here.
That Bennett will be the beginning of the one-state-solution is highly unlikely. Fair enough, any two-state-solution is highly unlikely as well.

Morality without necessity is elevator music, especially in this region.

And I’m afraid necessity will turn out a bloody affair. But who knows. There is always hope against all odds.