There is a contradiction at the heart of next week’s election in Israel.
It is, for sure, an election about Benjamin Netanyahu – about his past record and, even more, about where Israel would be be heading were he to remain as prime minister.
But those questions have very different meanings inside and outside Israel.
Outside – for almost the entire rest of the world – the issue of Netanyahu is the issue of the Gaza war, with the prime minister having become a canvas on which Israel-haters draw whatever they wish.
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