In Israeli politics, wars against the Palestinians tend to be winning issues, especially for far-right governments. That’s why Monday’s flare-up in Gaza thrilled hawks in the current coalition. Peace, however, is another matter. Peace threatens to collapse the coalition government outright.
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, an outspoken opponent of the ceasefire in Gaza, quit on Wednesday morning. Education Minister Naftali Bennett could be close behind, as he’s demanding the defense portfolio job, or he’ll pull his party out as well.
Though Netanyahu desperately wants to avoid early elections, it’s not clear how he’s going to be able to. Indications are that he wants to keep the defense ministry for himself, and even then giving it to Bennett, who reportedly laid out a plan for conquering Gaza during the security cabinet, is probably not a real option.
This has always been a big reason this coalition was unstable. The right wingers were never natural partners for the far-right, let alone the ultra-hawkish even-further-right. Avoiding the peace process was enough to keep everyone sort of unified for a time, but letting a new Gaza War just burn was likely never a real option for Netanyahu, even if neither Lieberman nor Bennett was ready to accept the alternative.
This is why israel has never survived for long in its long history. Infighting among the psychopaths who just want to fight and steal all the time…
How far right can Israel go?
They already fell off that cliff years ago…
How far right did the Nazis go?
And this applies to the actions of modern day Israel how? Maybe refer to Jewish victimhood and push the narrative that this excuses what Israel does? Is that it? Or is this just a reflexive response to any criticism of Israel with no rational reason?
Umm, they were socialists and completely on the left.They threw out the ‘Rightist’ party.
I understand that in today’s world anyone who does not agree with you is a ‘Nazi’ and ‘extreme right nationalist’ but some people actually expect words to mean something.
PJ London, there is an old political phrase – “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck – well, then it is a duck.
The Israelis are stealing the Palestinians’ land and when they peacefully protest, the Israelis kill them. In my book, the latest group to do that were the Nazis.
Two small points,
1) What does that (…ducks…) have to do with ‘far right Nazis’?
2) What does killing peaceful protestors have to do with Nazis?
Do you just mean ‘nasty people that I don’t like’ or do you actually mean the Nazis of Germany 1930 – 1945?
In reply –
1) ducks resemble ducks; murderous fascists resemble Nazis.
2) killing peaceful (UNARMED) protestors is something that the Nazis did.
Oh, and the Israeli President – Netanyahu has bragged that Israel is a strong country and in history a lot of strong countries have trampled on weaker countries and the “strong” countries have prevailed.– Netanyahu even talks like Goering and Goebbels (that is where the duck comes in).
Wow : ‘killing peaceful (UNARMED) protestors is something that the Nazis did.’ do you have any source for that?
Can you give examples?
I am sorry to be picky but ‘Netanyahu even talks like Goering and Goebbels ‘ again do you have any examples or references? I cannot see any parallel.
I understand and agree with how mean and nasty Nutty is but you compare him (and Israel) to Nazis and I just want to understand where the similarity lies.
P J London
“killing peaceful protestors is something that the Nazis did” – I cite as my source my Russian Grandmother, who related to me the fact that she learned from relatives still living in eastern Russia, that the Nazis invaded her old village and gathered most of the population into the square and summarily machine-gunned them. When Nutty talks about how might makes right – that is right out of the Nazi’s script.
Nations like Israel – bent upon conquest of others’ property and genocide are Nazis – no exaggeration there. Quit faking naivety.
So there weren’t any ‘unarmed peaceful protestors’ then.
‘When Nutty talks about how might makes right – that is right out of the Nazi’s script. ‘
er no :
“But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. ‘Might makes right,’ and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.” (Christian Non-Resistance: In All Its Important Bearings, Illustrated and Defended, 1846.)
Abraham Lincoln’s words in his February 26, 1860, Cooper Union Address (“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it”)
The Nazis never used the phrase to the best of my knowledge.
You just mean that you don’t like Nutty and you don’t like Nazis but there is no link between the two, so you just make stuff up to impress with how clever you are.
Just say you don’t like Nutty, I don’t like him either but I do not make up nonsense about Nazis.
You don’t wanna know the answer to that question. You wont sleep at night.
I thought for sure this wouldn’t be enough to destabilize the coalition. I guess it’s hard to go wrong betting on the strength and extremism of Israel’s very far right, thinking back to how many times early elections have happened.
Well, it surely looks like the coalition’s destabilized now and early elections will be happening sooner than later. Bibzy may be ousted as PM and either Bennett or Lieberman may take his place.
What’s Hebrew for the Night of Long Knives?
Gaza and the Palestinians have to be destroyed. The only argument is whether to do it quietly over a period of time and hope that the world does not notice, or to do it quickly, brutally and terminally and believe that the world will ‘get over it.’
Israel in general does not know or care how the rest of the world perceives it. Those few who do have to interact with other nations are scared stupid. They realise that Nuremberg can be applied not just to Germany but to Israel too. They also realise that it is +70 years since the end of WW2 and yet people remember. That means that it will be 2090 and still the world will abhor the failed Israeli state and curse the people who created and ran it.