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In his latest Substack column, longtime analyst and former Hill staffer MJ Rosenberg turns his attention to a chilling new reality inside Israel—one captured with brutal clarity by Gideon Levy in Haaretz. Rosenberg argues that the crisis now gripping Israel is not simply a matter of extremist leadership but of a society that has embraced war, vengeance, and ultranationalism as a collective identity.
Drawing on Levy’s searing assessment—“Everyone in This Country Has Gone Insane”—Rosenberg contrasts Israel’s near‑total consensus for war with the fractured, contested politics of the United States, even under Trump. However bleak America feels, he writes, it is not a country where 93 percent of the population cheers on endless conflict. Israel, by contrast, offers almost no internal opposition, no meaningful dissent, and no political force capable of slowing the march toward catastrophe.
Rosenberg’s piece is both a warning and a lament: a portrait of a society consumed by militarism, and a reminder that Americans still have the chance to pull back from our own precipice. Below is his full column, accompanied by excerpts from Levy’s original Haaretz article that inspired it.
Levy’s column, “A Country Gone Insane,” is devastating not because it exaggerates but because it doesn’t. He captures a public sphere that has collapsed into propaganda, a media that has traded journalism for cheerleading, and a political culture that treats war as both entertainment and economic opportunity. It is a portrait of a nation that has lost its mind — and, worse, believes its madness is virtue.
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