Unknown state of Israel and Palestine

Netanyahu has silenced the soldiers' protest movement for democracy, for the time being, but his failure to prevent the HAMAS massacres has aroused widespread public hatred.

I hope that their justified rage against that failure does not distract Israelis too long from Netanyahu's deeper threat: the authoritarianism he seeks to impose on their country.

Netanyahu speaks of wiping out HAMAS completely with a ground attack, but that is futile. Young people growing up in Gaza, the open-air prison, expect to be killed.