Like Kamala Harris, Israel's opposition is charming, decent - and terrifyingly hollow

Donald Trump's victory proved in the United States what we have long known here in Israel: When the liberals cannot offer an alternative, the populists score against an empty net. Everyone compares Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu, and indeed there are many similarities, but no one compares the Democrats in the United States to the center-left in Israel. Just as Trump is Netanyahu's twin brother, Kamala Harris is the twin sister of Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid: the rolling laugh of Harris, the captivating charm of Lapid and the decency of Gantz, behind all of which is nothing.

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