The Fifty-Year War

The great majority of Jewish Israelis, living in 'old' Israel within the pre-1967 borders, rarely focus on this question, but they would be just as divided and paralysed if they ever had to answer it. This is not the end of the Fifty-Year War. It may just be the mid-point in the Hundred-Year War.

So they are stuck, and Israeli politics has been paralysed for the past 20 years. The man who has led Israel for more than half that time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured, epitomizes that paralysis.Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 12, 2017

LONDON, ENGLAND—As Israeli columnist Gideon Levy wrote recently in the daily Haaretz: “In retrospect, it should be called the Fifty-Year War, not the Six-Day War. And judging by the political situation, its life expectancy appears endless.” June 5-10 is the 50th anniversary of the br...

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