Michael Oren, the author of “2048, the Rejuvenated State,” must have written his book prior to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest rejuvenation (“What Will Israel Look Like in 2048?,” May 4).
After having given the settlers’ movement a green light to not only expropriate land, the settlers have destroyed Palestinian orchards. The extent of land expropriation is such that a two-state solution is impossible.
Netanyahu is trying to eviscerate the Supreme Court and avoid jail. Will the democratic state even last till 2048? Oren describes the haredim as an existential threat to the state of Israel. It’s all concerning.
Saving democracy, living with the Palestinians, women’s rights, secular rights and non-Orthodox rights are all at risk on this current trajectory.
Nathan Farbman, Philadelphia
Isn’t it time to stop the charade of calling any policy, any government that you on the left dislike, equivalent to the destruction of democracy? The current trajectory, whatever that means, is simply an attempt to keep the powers of the three branches of Israeli government in balance. The sky isn’t falling because you and your political soulmates lost an election. That”s what happens in democracies and it happens to you guys so often because your policies are inane. It’s time to grow up and smell the coffee, look at the consequences of your socialist beliefs, compare them to the successes of capitalism and freedom of thought and come to terms with your failures.