Israel’s prime minister is fighting yesterday’s battles…
-Ha’aretz, December 23, 2023
Israelis say they want to turn back the calendar to October 6, when Negev ravers still considered Gaza’s immurement as “normal” enough to dance at its wall, Arabs want to turn back to May 1948, before the Nakba, and the State Department no doubt wishes it could turn back to June 1967, before settlement building precluded the creation of a Palestinian state. But time and the tide wait for no one, neither the Chosen People, nor the Sons of Ishmael, nor for the Indispensable Nation.