The 'meh' over Israel's new status quo
The selective outrage, the fury, the moral grandstanding—it’s all mysteriously absent when Israel has the upper hand.
So, Yahya Sinwar is dead. Yes, the Hamas leader who masterminded the ghastly October 7 attacks met his end in a pile of Gaza rubble. The man responsible for the deaths of more than 1,000 Israelis is gone, But what’s more interesting is the global reaction—or rather, the lack of it. Funny how criticism of Israel always seems to reach a fever pitch when t…
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