Israel should not allow the terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip to drag it into endless rounds of hostilities, says Yamina leader Naftali Bennett. "The only way to change the situation on the ground is by rebooting it as soon as possible," he asserts.
French-Moroccan professor Youssef Chiheb: "Israel is not an enemy of Morocco... the Arab world has been brainwashed with anti-Zionist and anti-Israel rhetoric."
Even members of the public forced into bomb shelters on a regular basis realize that the prime minister is doing the best he can to keep Hamas at bay, while reserving the option to launch a ground incursion into Gaza as a last resort.
Prof. Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at Harvard University, says the likely outcome is that COVID-19 "will ultimately not be containable," but this doesn't mean we will all have severe illnesses.
With the electoral crisis growing and no real winner showing in the polls leading to next week's vote, all signs point to a real possibility that Israel will need yet one more national election to nail down a government.
