  Israel’s election  The hawks’ wings are clipped  A sparky
performance by a middle-of-the-road party may pull Binyamin
Netanyahu back to the centre—and perhaps towards talks with the
Palestinians  See article  Readers' comments    The state of
Israel under Netanyahu has no conception whatsoever as to the
meaning of either civil or human rights. It authorises the
killing of civilians, women and children, both on land and on
the high seas. It believes itself to be superior to other nation
states notwithstanding its economic dependence upon them. Israel
is the ground zero of a global tragedy waiting to happen. Its
illegal transfer of half a million of its own citizens to the
occupied Muslim-Arab, West Bank being its own existential
threat. However the Likud government of Netanyahu is too blind
and arrogant to accede to the legitimate demands of the EU and
the US nor to adhere to the resolutions o the United Nations nor
to the international law of the Geneva Conventions on Human
Rights. It is a complete tragedy