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I’m not familiar with what’s going on there, and I certainly can’t give them a psychological analysis. I too strongly object to the direction they’ve taken and to latching onto the hostages. I also strongly object to the demand to hold elections now. That seems completely absurd to me. I also object to placing responsibility for everything under the sun on Bibi (despite all my lack of sympathy for him). In short, I don’t like them either, even though I partially agree with their positions. Hysterical one-sidedness is helpful in the short term, because if everything is black and white it’s easy to rally people to the struggle and bring them out into the streets. But in the long term you lose the public’s trust and shoot yourself in the foot. When you broaden the front and make unfounded claims, people won’t accept even your justified claims, and that’s a shame. Exactly as I argued regarding the struggle against the reform and the government before the war. This is a continuation of that same issue.