Matt Duss
I appreciate how Israelis view it, as I appreciate how any heavily propagandized population views it. But what’s bizarre is pretending that a regional military superpower that acts with near total freedom of action backed by a global superpower really is in an existential war.
Rachel Kantz Feder
This refusal to appreciate that Israelis now take its enemies' stated genocidal threats quite seriously - with many viewing the war in existential terms - is bizarre and unproductive. There's additional reporting on it.