On Israel, I honestly don't know. Biden is a true believer, clearly. But Netanyahu wants Trump over Harris, just as clearly. Will she be good? Certainly not. Will she be better than Biden? A month or two I would have said "probably," and I don't know whether the interim is evidence against it.

Netanyahu wants Trump, Palestinians want Harris and see a second Trump presidency as an existential threat. The people characterizing her as Mrs. Genocide never have an answer for why they should ignore Palestinians on this issue and why Bibi clearly doesn't want Harris as president.

it's just like. for issues like these, the specific pitch is... "look. we can't promise any policies you want. we have also abandoned even giving you platitudes in person - we speak of palestinians entirely in the abstract, refuse to meet them in person or let them show up in our speeches..."