After two years of war, Israel is almost friendless
This was one of those years when that feeling of being “in limbo” during the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur never went away.
On Monday, September 15, hours before the IDF began its ground incursion into Gaza City, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stood up to deliver the “Super-Sparta” speech, warning that Israel’s growing isolation could force it to transition to an autarchic, self-sufficient economy.
It was meant as a defiant, patriotic speech in which Bibi would call to reinforce the state’s military and economic bulwarks. But just a day later, Netanyahu was forced to call a second press conference to clarify that his remarks had been “taken out of context,” as the stock market plummeted and the opposition pounced.
Still, it isn’t hard to see where Netanyahu was coming from — his perspective isn’t much different from that of the nation as a whole over the past year.
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