A broad coalition of political forces, from Israel's far right to the Zionist left, have differing motivations for turning the war into the new normal.

A broad coalition of political forces, from Israel’s far right to the Zionist left, have differing motivations for turning the war into the new normal.

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In the typical style of Israel’s center-left governments between the 1950s and 1980s, especially that of the self-righteous Golda Meir, they say they are sorry for the Palestinian suffering, “but we have no choice.” They barely mention military and settler brutality and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem. And, of course, they strongly oppose the cases being brought against Israel in The Hague. The result is an updated version of “conflict management” — one that, despite their other differences, unites virtually all currents of Israeli politics.

  • JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I was about to question the “zionist left” part and decided to do a quick search. Apparently it’s real, one of the largest parties in Israel is the “Labor Zionist” party which actually holds certain leftist values like proletarian* ownership of the means of production. Bibi is a right wing liberal all the way and his party reflects that, just to be clear. But it shows how any movement can be devastating and harmful when it adopts a mentality of exclusion. In the case of the LZ party, it’s the *Jewish proletariat that they want to build socialism for, while keeping an underclass of gentiles. So once again racism and hierarchies are here to ruin your movement.