"No longer praising itself as 'the only democracy in the Middle East' or the IDF as 'the most moral army in the world,' the country has adopted a political grammar that goes beyond old-fashioned appeals to military strength with a liberal veneer, embracing a new kind of illiberal supremacism. The mask is off."
Yonatan Mendel on #Gaza and the fascisation of #IsraeliPolitics
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/01/25/israel-life-by-the-sword/
https://archive.ph/8bahK
#Israel #IsraeliMedia #Palestine #WarOnGaza @palestine @israel
Yonatan Mendel on #Gaza and the fascisation of #IsraeliPolitics
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/01/25/israel-life-by-the-sword/
https://archive.ph/8bahK
#Israel #IsraeliMedia #Palestine #WarOnGaza @palestine @israel
Israel: Life By the Sword | Yonatan Mendel | The New York Review of Books
For fifteen months Israel’s government clung to the fantasy of “total victory” in Gaza—with considerable public support.Yonatan Mendel (The New York Review of Books)
