And nobody is waiving the Palestinian flag like they do with the Ukrainian! I wonder why… Maybe the US soft handed official criticism of what is going on in Israel and Palestine is meant to serve as herd anesthetization of the public western opinion and to allow what is actually in the interest of the US. The administration in Washington (and their puppet media outlets) doesn’t give a rat’s a.. about the humanitarian catastrophic situation in Palestine when it comes to please the financial most influential powers in US and their global interests. It is beyond hypocrisy. The US foreign policy and military involvement (direct or indirect) around the globe has never been driven by humanitarian concerns—only geopolitical, financial and internal interests of the shadow men in power.
I generally agree with the premise of the article: the members of the current government coalition to be - though that is as yet uncertain - are not what I would call “Israel’s finest.”
However, I think that objective criteria for what would be considered acceptable government behavior be the litmus test, instead of subjective opinions on why Israel is being unfair to the Palestinians. What is the set of criteria that Israel should be judged by? Do other countries in the region fare better? Do the Palestinian governments/municipalities?
Also, Ben Gvir was elected, but does NOT have wide support. One feature of Israeli politics is that there is a group of the Israeli population that tries to support one candidate each election, in order to form a coalition such that that candidate can address a specific issue that the general public cares deeply about. In this case, it is organized crime violence spilling into the general public sphere - the public is tired of it and wants somebody to go in there and clean house. Ben Gvir ran on that campaign - full stop. He was elected by MANY outside his base (how did he get 14 mandates?) and they will not tolerate the religious politics.
Since then, the religious right has politicized religion by threatening to regulate electricity on the Sabbath, and other ridiculous religious BS that only a minority of the population cares about. There is as of yet no government specifically because Netanyahu hasn’t just agreed for the sake of being in power.
Ben Gvir has tried to have some lame duck job with special permission to have the army report to him - that didn’t fly, still no government. Unfortunately, that is the type of cynical thinking of the religious right.
The fact is, nobody sanctioned the minority rule of the ultra-orthodox, and nobody will stand for it. Ben Gvir won his votes on a vow to stand against the violence. If that’s not enough for him, then he won’t be in the government for long, if at all.
But let’s not forget, Lapid was in power as the violence that led to Ben Gvir reached a boiling point.
And nobody is waiving the Palestinian flag like they do with the Ukrainian! I wonder why… Maybe the US soft handed official criticism of what is going on in Israel and Palestine is meant to serve as herd anesthetization of the public western opinion and to allow what is actually in the interest of the US. The administration in Washington (and their puppet media outlets) doesn’t give a rat’s a.. about the humanitarian catastrophic situation in Palestine when it comes to please the financial most influential powers in US and their global interests. It is beyond hypocrisy. The US foreign policy and military involvement (direct or indirect) around the globe has never been driven by humanitarian concerns—only geopolitical, financial and internal interests of the shadow men in power.
I generally agree with the premise of the article: the members of the current government coalition to be - though that is as yet uncertain - are not what I would call “Israel’s finest.”
However, I think that objective criteria for what would be considered acceptable government behavior be the litmus test, instead of subjective opinions on why Israel is being unfair to the Palestinians. What is the set of criteria that Israel should be judged by? Do other countries in the region fare better? Do the Palestinian governments/municipalities?
Also, Ben Gvir was elected, but does NOT have wide support. One feature of Israeli politics is that there is a group of the Israeli population that tries to support one candidate each election, in order to form a coalition such that that candidate can address a specific issue that the general public cares deeply about. In this case, it is organized crime violence spilling into the general public sphere - the public is tired of it and wants somebody to go in there and clean house. Ben Gvir ran on that campaign - full stop. He was elected by MANY outside his base (how did he get 14 mandates?) and they will not tolerate the religious politics.
Since then, the religious right has politicized religion by threatening to regulate electricity on the Sabbath, and other ridiculous religious BS that only a minority of the population cares about. There is as of yet no government specifically because Netanyahu hasn’t just agreed for the sake of being in power.
Ben Gvir has tried to have some lame duck job with special permission to have the army report to him - that didn’t fly, still no government. Unfortunately, that is the type of cynical thinking of the religious right.
The fact is, nobody sanctioned the minority rule of the ultra-orthodox, and nobody will stand for it. Ben Gvir won his votes on a vow to stand against the violence. If that’s not enough for him, then he won’t be in the government for long, if at all.
But let’s not forget, Lapid was in power as the violence that led to Ben Gvir reached a boiling point.
Such a powerful article. I wonder how long Americans will continue to blindly support such evil. Something has to open their eyes.