Haaretz is the WaPo/NYTimes of Israel. They represent the leftist, dovish segment of the population. They personally like Kerry and can't believe he is as stupid as it seems.
Kerry's latest cease-fire plan: What was he thinking?
The draft Kerry passed to Israel on Friday shocked the cabinet ministers not only because it was the opposite of what Kerry told them less than 24 hours earlier, but mostly because it might as well have been penned by Khaled Meshal. It was everything Hamas could have hoped for.
| Israeli rubes self-identify. Back when I used to read the New York Times, I also read Ha'aretz. It now occurs to me that my father never did, though he'd been a technocrat for Labour during his Israeli period. Daddy read the international edition of the Jerusalem Post. |
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