You get societies like Sparta, or 18th century Poland or Venice, where the ruling caste prioritises the preservation of its own privileges over and above the survival of the State. (View Post)

I think that Likud is about as keen on ethnic cleansing as Hamas is. (View Post)

The Israeli Right want the West Bank, preferably with its inhabitants driven away; but failing that, living as helots. (View Post)

That's the glass jaw of the world's most dangerous authoritarian regimes. They all face big demographic problems. In the short term, that makes them more dangerous, as they want to assert t… (View Post)

They ought not to exist at all. Either something is a crime or it is not. If the latter, it is no business of the police. (View Post)