If Biden thinks Israel’s liberals are doves, he’s dreaming

TEL AVIV — “I believe we should have been much more aggressive concerning the Hezbollah,” a prominent Israeli politician told me last week, referring to the terrorist group that has been firing rockets and artillery at Israel’s north since the Hamas attack in Israel’s south on Oct. 7. The speaker is not a right-wing politician, mind you, or a centrist, but the would-be leader of Israel’s leftmost political party (minus Arab parties).