On June 13th, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the first in a series of attacks that his military and intelligence establishments had been preparing for more than a decade, striking at the heart of Ayatollah Khamenei’s nuclear program. For this week’s issue, David Remnick reports from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, where he writes that “the horrific scale of suffering among Gazans is nearly invisible in the Israeli media, aside from the liberal paper Haaretz and a few smaller outlets.” The war against Hamas, Remnick observes, “was the moral nightmare that everyone tried to ignore.” “We are doing horrible things, and it’s important for me that people know I oppose this.” Such expressions of moral clarity are rare, though, in an age of confusion and endlessly contested facts that has been harnessed by the Netanyahu government, which speaks a fluent dialect of the MAGA language of politics.
Author: Ian Crouch
Published at: 2025-07-28 22:30:00
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