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Samuel Ross
Samuel Ross
1 year ago

This author is letting his bias trickle into his words every paragraph or two (against Netanyahu) but with all that, it’s an expertly written article. My congratulations to the author. To improve in future, I’d recommend removing your own viewpoint from your words. Your audience should be guessing, but you make it obvious. Less is more.

Last edited 1 year ago by Samuel Ross
Brett H
Brett H
1 year ago
Reply to  Samuel Ross

Can you indicate where you see this bias?

Billy Bob
Billy Bob
1 year ago
Reply to  Brett H

I agree, I can’t see where the bias is in the article. It seemed to me a fairly apolitical summary of him

Steve Jolly
Steve Jolly
1 year ago
Reply to  Brett H

“Trump pushed the GOP to it’s worst nature” is a pretty solid clue. Both sides are pretty shrill and hateful these days. Only partisans of one side or the other believe their side to be innocent. Think about Romney saying he didn’t care about the Americans who don’t pay taxes, or Obama with his “clinging to guns and religion” comment. Both those ugly comments happened well before Trump, but they were gaffes, mistakes, the kind of thing people say to close friends at parties to get a laugh or make a point that the people being disrespected aren’t supposed to hear, like talking about people behind their back. Things can be hidden, but that does not mean they do not exist. Only an infant believes that. Trump, because he has no manners, or sense of shame, or decency, or any moral compass, said the quiet part loud. He has never had any compunction about saying anything straight to anybody’s face, because he’s a narcissistic self absorbed buffoon. Yet, the reaction to his buffoonery revealed the ugliness in the other side as well. “Basket of deplorables”, is just as filled with venom and contempt as Trump’s rhetoric. Trump’s a con-man, not a wizard. He didn’t conjure up all that vitriol and anger out of thin air. He simply inadvertently revealed the condescension, disregard, and contempt that had been politely hidden by both sides. He brought out the worst in pretty much everybody, but he didn’t put it there.

Last edited 1 year ago by Steve Jolly
Brett H
Brett H
1 year ago
Reply to  Steve Jolly

“his bias trickle into his words every paragraph or two (against Netanyahu) “
Netanyahu, not Trump.

Billy Bob
Billy Bob
1 year ago
Reply to  Steve Jolly

I’d say Trump has pushed the GOP towards its worst nature, just like the progressives have done the same to the Democrats. Neither party seems to really represent the average American anymore

Gayle Rosenthal
Gayle Rosenthal
1 year ago
Reply to  Steve Jolly

I have to agree and disagree. The author seems to have a grudging admiration of Netanyahu and a bias against Trump. In my view Trump didn’t “bring out the worst in the GOP”, he has challenged it to be better, and he is still challenging it. Trump was elected by the people and not by his party. Netanyahu has also been elected by the people and despite politics. Both men, however, are the consummate politicians.
Juxtaposing any politician with Berlusconi is a “seeming” negative, for sure, but shining a bright light on all of them is the rising of Georgia Meloni. She is the voice of a strong and disciplined Mother of Us All. I am praying for her and for all of the strong leaders who protect our well-being from Islamist terror, soul-killing Communism, brainless Progressivism, and Nazi hate.

Isabel Ward
Isabel Ward
1 year ago
Reply to  Samuel Ross

Anybody who knows anything about Israeli media knows Haaretz is somewhat to the left of the Guardian. So getting one of their journalists to analyse Netanyahu is a waste of time.

Bill Tomlinson
Bill Tomlinson
1 year ago
Reply to  Samuel Ross

The headline reads
“Israel will never escape Netanyahu” .

Why on earth would it want to?

Allison Barrows
Allison Barrows
1 year ago

“Angry and polarized American politics” were not and are not Donald Trump’s doing, but rather that of the Swamp felonry who dreaded what he would learn and expose about them. Ironically, if they had let him do his job, he’d still be President, the US would be in fantastic shape (remember energy independence?) and he’d have probably let them slink off into comfortable obscurity after making them pay back some of what they stole from the taxpayers. Instead, we have senile laughing stock puppet occasionally occupying the Oval Office and a citizenry at each other’s throats – all thanks to the Swamp that will not be drained until we’re all drowned in the stinking mire with them.

Rocky Martiano
Rocky Martiano
1 year ago

Draining the swamp is a tough task and I don’t think Trump is up to the job. It needs to be an insider, someone who knows its workings and its weaknesses inside out, rather than an outsider like Trump.
But we need to find that person very quickly, before the Swamp takes us all down with it into oblivion. On both sides of the pond, by the way.

Allison Barrows
Allison Barrows
1 year ago
Reply to  Rocky Martiano

You might be right, but insiders have no incentive, being part of the swamp themselves. His enemies made Trump a colossus. They have only themselves to blame for what will happen to them next week.

JR Stoker
JR Stoker
1 year ago
Reply to  Rocky Martiano

Trump, or a Trump figure, is part of the process. But the weakness of The Donald is that urge to smash everything. What needs doing is to challenge very loudly and maybe brutally the new orthodoxies, but not to damage the system which protects the liberties of the people.

The march on the Capitol was an enormous mistake. He should have conceded gracefully at the outset, and resumed the fight against the erosion of the constitution and American values, and the undermining of the economy by the Democrats; he would be miles ahead in the polls by now. Even better, to anoint several successors to carry the message to the next generation.

Bill Tomlinson
Bill Tomlinson
1 year ago
Reply to  JR Stoker

“Trump, or a Trump figure” = Ron de Santis.

Paul Hendricks
Paul Hendricks
1 year ago
Reply to  JR Stoker

Yes, a costly mistake. You could say the same thing for his performance in the first debate with Biden.

On the other hand, he didn’t “smash” enough. If only he had fired the likes of Fauci and Birx in early 2020. . .

Nitzan Waisberg
Nitzan Waisberg
1 year ago

Great overview. I’d add that it is not just Jewish (Orthodox) Survivalism but the fact his loyalists have been positioned through the entire state beaurocracy and make a living working and channeling funds to various organisations. For example the Messianic public school system (Mmamlachti-Dati), the educational branch of the far-religious right, in one of the recent elections secured a promise to get additional funding per student in the state budget meaning their students would receive 30-60% more money per student than any other student (secular, arab…), this was done with public political support from people who are essentially civil servants, but with a political loyalty. While Netanyahu was in the opposition they didn’t get these funds but they still operate a huge publicly funded, Netanyahu loyal, organisation that didn’t go anywhere. This is just one example. The whole country is wired this way.

Last edited 1 year ago by Nitzan Waisberg
Brett H
Brett H
1 year ago

I have no love for the left. But my experience here makes me very wary of the right. The way some posters fixate on one or two words in a story that really have very little to do with the subject itself and completely ignore the real subject in favour of reading it in a way that suits their political views resembles something like rabid dogs snapping at shadows. And then they object to UnHerd publishing the story, as if it’s some right-wing publication that’s betrayed them. I fully expect a flood of red marks, so pile it on, because I know you won’t be able to resist.

Last edited 1 year ago by Brett H
lancelotlamar1
lancelotlamar1
1 year ago

This is a brilliant piece, and helps me understand Bibi, and his ambition, and appeal better than anything I have ever read as an American Christian.
Bibi is right that there is and will always be a struggle for the very existence of Israel and the Jewish people. People see and feel that passion. It may seem too much at times, but it is better to err on his side and survive than on the side of accommodation and an illusory “peace” and be annihilated.
Sadly, that is a choice Israelis must always make because of who they are historically, and where they are geographically.

Paul Hendricks
Paul Hendricks
1 year ago

Who is this new Unherd editor who feels the need to introduce lazy, throwaway anti-Trump statements into every piece?

I understand this practice is de rigueur in so many media outlets, but here. . .?

Brett H
Brett H
1 year ago
Reply to  Paul Hendricks

Why not?