But yeah Ben Gvir has told police to ignore prosecuting settler extremist violence and Katz even ended administrative detention for Israelis but has kept it for Palestinians.
JebBD on
This man has been breaking people’s brains with these objectively correct and not even all that radical statements for a decade and it makes me happy that he’s rising in the polls right now because if that. *This* is what an opposition is supposed to look like
LivefromPhoenix on
Part of why Israel’s open courting of the American right is so confusing. Dems might’ve held back their criticism if Bibi and friends weren’t doing their best to turn Israel into another left/right partisan issue.
rdae8263 on
The bar is so goddamn low for Israel because of the insanity of Bibi and the far right that if reasonable people came to power and immediately ended West Bank settlements, I really believe Arab states would be tripping over themselves to normalize and claim it as a victory and successful effort to beat the evil Zionists into submission. It wouldn’t even be concession on Israel’s part because the land is literally not theirs.
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Good on him to say this and he’s completely correct. ([Others leaders have said similar things](https://www.timesofisrael.com/idfs-outgoing-west-bank-chief-slams-settler-leaders-for-failing-to-rein-in-violence/)) Introspection like this is needed to get this really awful conflict resolved where leaders on both sides acknowledge and work to rectify the problems on their side.
But yeah Ben Gvir has told police to ignore prosecuting settler extremist violence and Katz even ended administrative detention for Israelis but has kept it for Palestinians.
This man has been breaking people’s brains with these objectively correct and not even all that radical statements for a decade and it makes me happy that he’s rising in the polls right now because if that. *This* is what an opposition is supposed to look like
Part of why Israel’s open courting of the American right is so confusing. Dems might’ve held back their criticism if Bibi and friends weren’t doing their best to turn Israel into another left/right partisan issue.
The bar is so goddamn low for Israel because of the insanity of Bibi and the far right that if reasonable people came to power and immediately ended West Bank settlements, I really believe Arab states would be tripping over themselves to normalize and claim it as a victory and successful effort to beat the evil Zionists into submission. It wouldn’t even be concession on Israel’s part because the land is literally not theirs.