On Israel and Turning Tides

Interesting item posted by Levi at Jews Sans Frontieres:

Here's a comment in today's Ha'aretz by former Jerusalem Deputy Mayor, Meron Benvenisti. He believes that Israeli opposition to the war will come sooner than many expect but the right now the public and mainstream parties (and zionists around the world) are in a state of patriotic fervour:

No one is able to predict the minute when the opposition to the war and the bloodshed turns from an act of betrayal into a legitimate and even correct stance; when a moral condemnation of the war's evil effects becomes acceptable from a patriotic point of view and when slogans like "uprooting terror," "a war for our homes," "an existential struggle" and their like, turn from resonant war-cries into empty rhetoric.

He ends by saying Israel will come out of this the clear loser, "the object of impotent hatred."