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04/13/2024 22:14

Subject: Now That Iran Has Retaliated Against Israel?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a conservative. I support Israel.

I’m a liberal Democrat and I support Israel.

You do realize Israel is being run by a rightwing party that in order to reach a majority of votes in the Knesset has to ally itself with ultra right wing extremist factions? I support Israel when they are led by central or leftist coalition like Yizthak Rabin who won the Nobel Peace prize and was assassinated in 1995 by a ultra right wing sympathizer who opposed peace.

Supporting Israel leadership now is like supporting Trump and the J6 lunatics. And that is probably an understatement. In order to get elected Netanyahu formed a coalition with an ultra right wing extremists and including Itamar Ben-Gvir who Netanyahu appointed as Security Minister. He was so radical as a teen the Israeli Defense Force refused to conscript him. The New Yorker reported a year ago, "While Ben-Gvir’s old high-school classmates served in the Israel Defense Forces, he stayed at the yeshiva, absorbing extremist ideas. The Army had refused to conscript him. “There are only very few that we don’t recruit,” a former senior defense official told me. Why not Ben-Gvir? I asked. The official stared at me and said, “Give someone like that a weapon?” And now he is the Security Minister of Israel.

The New Yorker reported over a year ago when Netanyahu was elected "Late last year, as Israel swore in the most right-wing government in its history, a despairing joke circulated online. A picture broken into squares to resemble a captcha—the test designed to tell you from a robot—depicted the members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet. The caption read, “Select the squares in which people who have been indicted appear.” The correct answer involved half of them." The article continues "Ben-Gvir, who is forty-six, has been convicted on at least eight charges, including supporting a terrorist organization and incitement to racism, compiling a criminal record so long that, when he appeared before a judge, “we had to change the ink on the printer,” Dvir Kariv, a former official in the Shin Bet intelligence agency, told me. As recently as last October, Netanyahu refused to share a stage with him, or even to be seen with him in photographs. But a series of disappointing elections persuaded Netanyahu to change his mind."

So because I am liberal I do NOT support the current rulers of Israel because I am anti right wing and anti-intolerance. This is also why I don't understand why so many liberals support Hamas. Both Palestine and Israel are being run by ultra intolerant parties so I don't think the US should be supporting either group right now.

Not the person you are responding too, but I am a politically homeless person at this point, but tend to lean more left and even progressive on some issues. Not a supporter of Netanyahu at all and I think he's corrupt, but I absolutely support Israel right now and I think it's dangerous for our future here in the US if we don't.