A Protest That’s Drowning in Its Own Tears

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/08/israel-liberals-protest-ritual-gaza/679423/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo

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  1. Gal Beckerman: “What I experienced on a brief visit—among, I should add, the cosmopolitan and liberal-minded of Tel Aviv—was a new psychological status quo: exasperation and helplessness. The murder of more than 1,000 Israelis should have been a political and social earthquake, a moment for foundational change, yet what has followed over nearly a year now is a pathological stasis. Nothing seems to shake the power of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extreme-right allies, and at the same time trauma—a word heard constantly—has frozen in place what was a growing liberal political constituency, trapping an entire society at the opening of that fake tunnel, doomed to enter again and again.”

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