The vast majority of submitted stories on Israel (as a subset of politics in general) are off-topic for HN. They almost never gratify one's intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and almost always lead to massive flamewars and political tangents in the comments. I flag all politics stories - this one is no exception. I want to avoid HN turning into another Twitter or Reddit, thank you very much.