Heading into black hole

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Heading into black hole

Hope fading, fears grow as government marks first year in office

Sima Kadmon Published: 03.20.10, 13:38 / Israel Opinion

This had been a tough week for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, but also a tough week for anyone having a tough time understanding what’s going on around here; all those people who are asking themselves time and again – where are we going, and who is leading us there?

This was a week that started with a major crisis and ended with an even greater crisis; a week where we discovered that the rumors of our deteriorating ties with Washington were not premature, and apparently also not greatly exaggerated. It doesn’t even matter whether we deserve it, or whether the Americans overreacted and exploited the mishap in order to pressure us. If our ties are at such state, then we are the ones who need to be overly cautious.

This was a week where, for the first time, our ally claimed that Israel is turning from an asset into a burden, and on the other side of the equation, the prime minister’s brother-in-law referred to the US president as an anti-Semite.

It was the kind of week where it doesn’t matter whether you’re a leftist or rightist in order to feel ashamed, and understand that something bad is happening to us; in order to understand that something here is not working as it should, and that the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, and vice versa; in order to realize that we have no leader or a guiding hand.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865134,00.html

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1. serious questions to ask. Pity the answers are not forthcoming.

I have every wish that Israel remain a viable state. I have multiple doubts that it can, if it continues down its present path.