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Introducing the leaders of Israeli political parties. Today: Yair Golan, leader of the "Democrats" party on the center-left and former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the IDF. His post, translated: " I’m now leaving Kabri after a full day in the north — the Jezreel Valley, Nahariya, Mateh Asher, Mazra’a, and Evron. Everywhere I went, the same question came up: When will this end? For two and a half years now, this government has known how to start wars, but not how to end any of them. Israel is currently operating on four active fronts: Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, and Judea and Samaria. Life across the country is being lived from one siren to the next. Instead of studying in classrooms, children are growing up between Zoom and bomb shelters. The IDF has achieved extraordinary military accomplishments, at the cost of the blood of our soldiers and civilians. But without a concluding political move, those achievements will be thrown away. Just a few months ago we heard festive declarations about a “total victory” and a “victory for generations.” But the truth is simple: the government and its leader do not know how to translate military achievements into a strategic move that creates long-term security. Every military operation must have a concluding political component. Without it, we are dragged into endless cycles. We are in an election year. These elections are about the future of Israeli democracy — and about security. The Democrats know how to protect both: democracy, and the security of you and your children. " https://x.com/YairGolan1/status/2031084721183277169?s=20

About what?

Of course good and bad things exist in the details. What I meant is that non of the sides is the source of the problem but the dynamics between them.

Built over a war of two sides who claim ownership on the land. Not on one "bad" side and one "good" side.

Yeah. There are two opposing camps that are perfectly mirroring each other. One camp see the Palestinians as the root of evil and as they were the reason for the war in 1948. The second camp who claims that "Zionists" (Jews who wanted to establish their own safe space after centuries of persecutions. What is so bad in that? I still don't understand) are the root of all problems. Both camps are just acting out their stage Blue shadow. The reality is probably much closer to the Snowball model - mutual suspicion that started 150 years ago, got bigger and bigger until the peak in the war of 1948.

@Butters The considerations for going to war with Iran are complex and include weakening the regime by targeting members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in order to help the revolution there succeed, damaging the regime’s nuclear program and reducing its military capabilities including its ability to fund terrorist organizations that operate as its proxies. During the last two years there was a negative migration balance in Israel when more people left the country than entered, which is relatively unusual compared to most previous years.

Right-wing voices from today 🏰⛲️

Only when there is an alarm, then people go to shelters, safe rooms, parking lots etc. From yesterday the economic activities returned back to normal. I work in the Meteorology office in the airport, and I had to go to there even from the first day of the war, what was a bit stressing while driving.

What if every technological advancement is really only an innocent and spiritual process, that after a while tends to become corrupted when we mistake the new tool for the cognitive cause that led to it.

Voices from Israel Today 🐦 (From today 1-3 posts at a time)

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Thank you! 🙏🏻

A mix of stress, feeling of together-ness, alertness... like the good and the bad together I feel. Yes around 90-95% interception rate Yes, between 10-40 buildings that get hitted every day by shrapnels or splitted missiles (missiles which splitted to couple of smaller ones) or blast damage. Couple of weeks. The last assesment is 6 weeks after Trump's last declaration.

@Wilhelm44 What do you want to know? Ask

@Lila9 Every f🚀ing hour!

All those cases including the Holocaust were devastating.

Israel is the organic outcome of injustices people have faced for centuries with the peak event 85 years ago.

March 7th 2026 news 📰🐦

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The operation to stop Iran invovles mostly arestrike forces and mainly Israeli ground agents. It is worth thinking sometimes about the good things that can come out of this for millions of people in Iran.

March 6th 2026 news 📰

Only 5-10 years in prison is an appropriate penalty that can deter such people.

@Lyubov It is one thing to criticize what the Israeli government does in Gaza, the US and European governments did in Iraq, how Israel has been established, how France Italy and Greece have been established, but its another thing to focus disproportionate hatred on one society or one nation beyond rationality. Perhaps this is how humankind has always been. Taking sides according to personal psychology, and thats it.

Stay safe! In the meantime... Lucky I chose a different path from Yehud to Tel Aviv so I could enter a shelter along the way. If I went to road 1 I would be under the sky right now without protection.

So the solution is to act the exact same as the Israeli government and ignore the Jewish trauma?