It sounds like an oxymoron, but not so fast. From Haaretz, “And then there’s the new government, set to be formed in the next week or two. A kakistocracy extraordinaire: government by the worst and least suitable collection of ultranationalists, Jewish supremacists, anti-democrats, racists, bigots, homophobes, misogynists, corrupt and allegedly corrupt politicians. A ruling coalition of 64 lawmakers, of whom 32 are either ultra-Orthodox or religious Zionist. Certainly not a coalition Zeev Jabotinsky, the father of Revisionist Zionism, or Menachem Begin, the founder of Likud, could have ever imagined.”
And then from AlterNet, “Itamar Ben-Gvir, from the ultra-nationalist Otzma Yehudit, ‘Jewish Power,’ party, will be the new minister for internal security. Otzma Yehudit is populated with members of Rabbi Meir Kahane’s Kach party, which was banned from running for the Knesset in 1988 for espousing a ‘Nazi-like ideology’… Ben-Gvir and Smotrich represent the dregs of Israeli society, one that promotes ‘Jewish identity’ and ‘Jewish nationalism’ in a Zionist version of fascism’s call for blood and soil. They are Israel’s equivalent of Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Their Religious Zionist bloc is now the third largest in the Knesset. … Avigdor Maoz of the extremist Noam party, which opposes LGBTQ rights and wants to ban women from serving in the military, has been appointed to oversee the Israeli school curriculum, Russian immigration and national Jewish identity. ‘Anyone who tries to harm real Judaism is the darkness,’ he said this week. ‘Anyone who tries to create a new so-called liberal religion is the darkness. Anyone who — with intentional concealment and obfuscation — tries to brainwash the children of Israel with their agendas, without the knowledge of the parents, is the darkness.’… I suspect we stand on the cusp of a third and far more deadly intifada.”
The AlterNet article is far more expansive, but does what I’ve quoted above sound familiar? Does it kinda sound like every other far-right group in America or repressive authoritarian nation? What could possibly go wrong with this new government? But this is what Israelis voted for. This is the government they wanted. As I long ago predicted, Netanyahu ain’t going nowhere because deep down inside the heart of Israel is a desire to become the very nation of repression they feared in Nazi Germany. It is the same repression around the world for millennia that inspired the creation of Israel so that Jewish people could live protected from the rest of the world’s abhorrence. In short, Israelis have become the Nazis. What a mess. And as I keep warning, authoritarianism is flourishing and gaining worldwide. Oh well! I keep telling you fucktards!