Haaretz, with a readership of around 5% of the news market in Israel, represents an extreme far left ideological viewpoint and just like the extreme far right these are minority positions espoused by idealogues at opposite ends of the spectrum. Of course idealogues have difficulty recognizing themselves as such so they see the extremist, anti-Israel positions taken by Haaretz writers, such as Gideon Levy, as representative of the mainstream when, in fact, they are reflective of only a tiny minority. Once again kudos to Israel for it's tolerance of all viewpoints, the mark of an open society.