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Recent opinion polls of Israelis and Palestinians offer bleak, distressing results – which is why leaders, not their broken peoples, need to offer a way out of this disaster. But instead of leadership, Netanyahu offers only a dark, cold void

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Dahlia Scheindlin

January 24, 2024

This is not a column about public opinion. It's about why the time has come to stop looking for salvation from the Israeli-Palestinian nightmare in opinion polls.

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