Self-absorbed, sanctimonious and often superficial, the American Jewish left is alienated from the real-life struggle for justice in Israel and Palestine. It offered little solidarity during the Netanyahu era, and now, with a new "change" coalition in power, its refusal to engage with the Jews and Arabs of the Israeli left is more hurtful, and harmful, than ever.

That's the assessment of Etan Nechin on U.S. Jewish leftists of the Peter Beinart school and beyond.

There's been a ruckus on the U.S. evangelical right, too, in the wake of Netanyahu's ouster. Joshua Shanes berates the sickening antisemitism to which some disappointed "pro-Israel" Christian Zionists have pivoted.

In response, Judah Isseroff notes that the evangelicals' "cosmic drama" involves Jews whether they like it or not – and their agency in that story is a stark contrast to earlier Christian doctrines of Jewish helplessness.

For Palestinians, the big question is whether the Bennett-Lapid government will mean a change in Israel's policies of settlement and occupation. Palestinian Authority Minister Ahmad Majdalani asks if Netanyahu's toxic legacy will live on.

Hanin Majadli isn't joining in the whoops of delight about the new government. As an Arab citizen, she can't find much to delight her in a coalition between the pro-settlement Jewish right and Islamist conservatives.

Naftali Bennett has a long record as a right-wing provocateur. Guy Ziv asks if he's really capable of rolling back the damage Netanyahu caused to Israel's democracy.

There's good news for incoming Foreign Minister Yair Lapid from India where, says Abhinav Pandya, the Hindu nationalist government which had hesitated to back Israel and thus downgrade its support for Palestine, seems to have made the leap.

For Harun Karcic, when the sentence for Serbian genocidaire Ratko Mladic was upheld last week, he was flooded with childhood memories: Departing on the last civilian bus from a besieged Sarajevo, women and children shaking with fear, leaving his father behind. The butchers of Bosnia's Muslims are in jail, he writes, but there hasn't been justice.