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Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Feb 6, 2024 · 5m

Here’s a quick headline from Haaretz, last night. It reads:

Israelis who were supposed to be able to die at a ripe old age in their own beds are rotting away in a dank tunnel, but he has time.

It’s a reference to Netanyahu, of course, and growing national frustration with the government’s inability to find some way to get the remaining hostages home. Haaretz, obviously, has never been a huge fan of Bibi—but this headline could have appeared in almost any Israeli newspaper this week.

For much of the past ten days or so, Israelis have waited anxiously to hear whether Hamas would accept a…