Netanyahu is super corrupt, but in his position as leader of Israel he does things for a reason. The Israeli people have a persecution complex due to … history, and so many want an ethnostate. On top of that Israel like America has made a lot of enemies, through their various war crimes, so the threats to Israel’s national security are real.
None of this is an endorsement of Israel’s past, present, or future. There are better ways to survive and they seem be going out of their way to cross lines that I wouldn’t even if it’d kill me. There seems to be some “religious zionism” mixed in with their efforts to build an ethnostate that makes sure they needlessly commit every war crime in the book. Furthermore Israel’s reckless actions and it’s impunity have been fomenting antisemitism around the world (from the right, this isn’t meant to equivocate pro-Palestine activistism with antisemitism).
I wouldn’t put Netanyahu in the former camp.
Netanyahu is super corrupt, but in his position as leader of Israel he does things for a reason. The Israeli people have a persecution complex due to … history, and so many want an ethnostate. On top of that Israel like America has made a lot of enemies, through their various war crimes, so the threats to Israel’s national security are real.
None of this is an endorsement of Israel’s past, present, or future. There are better ways to survive and they seem be going out of their way to cross lines that I wouldn’t even if it’d kill me. There seems to be some “religious zionism” mixed in with their efforts to build an ethnostate that makes sure they needlessly commit every war crime in the book. Furthermore Israel’s reckless actions and it’s impunity have been fomenting antisemitism around the world (from the right, this isn’t meant to equivocate pro-Palestine activistism with antisemitism).