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I have been here longer than you believe me certainly before the 2010 flag.Interesting join date you have there.
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I have been here longer than you believe me certainly before the 2010 flag.Interesting join date you have there.
well the israelis are the most moral army in the world....read the torah (i.e the old testament), you'll get the idea of morality. I dont see him as a psychopath, just representative...
That's because you're a long way down the path of demonisation.well the israelis are the most moral army in the world....read the torah (i.e the old testament), you'll get the idea of morality. I dont see him as a psychopath, just representative...
That's because you're a long way down the path of demonisation.
Bezalel Smotrich is an example of what would happen if you were to be elected into office.
You mirror and complement each other perfectly.
Everyone hates you both as well.
It's a different political system. It's not preferential. You get seats in the Knesset for 3.25% of primary votewell doctor, you can make your diagnosis but how do you define people who vote for psychopaths?
It's a different political system. It's not preferential. You get seats in the Knesset for 3.25% of primary vote
His party got 10% of primary votes in 2022. One Nation peaked at 27% for us. A poll late last year had his party dropping down below the 3.25% cut off.
We'd have some complete looney parties holding seats in Australia if it was the same political system. And it would always be a coalition, sometimes with the looney parties holding the balance of power.
They need to change their political system. It sounds great in theory as it gives representation to minority voices, but in reality it gives too much power to loonies.
It is not likely that the political system will be changed any time soon. Without a popular revolt from below, the Netahanyu fascist government will consolidate its power through dictatorial measures:It's a different political system. It's not preferential. You get seats in the Knesset for 3.25% of primary vote
His party got 10% of primary votes in 2022. One Nation peaked at 27% for us. A poll late last year had his party dropping down below the 3.25% cut off.
We'd have some complete looney parties holding seats in Australia if it was the same political system. And it would always be a coalition, sometimes with the looney parties holding the balance of power.
They need to change their political system. It sounds great in theory as it gives representation to minority voices, but in reality it gives too much power to loonies.
One cannot truly gauge popular opinion in Israel because:I look at the israeli newspaper polls and many of the strategies are popular - starvation, bombing etc. Whatever "balanced" strategy from the last century is now down to a minority reading haaretz. In fact, you'd probably find more of those folk in the US. The trend is EAST towards the right....towards samaria and judea and the promised land!!
I'm certainly not suggesting it will change.It is not likely that the political system will be changed any time soon. Without a popular revolt from below, the Netahanyu fascist government will consolidate its power through dictatorial measures:
Netanyahu’s far-right government pursues its dictatorial agenda to consolidate its Greater Israel policy
The government has introduced a raft of new anti-democratic laws, increasing surveillance over the Palestinians and of Israeli citizens and restricting freedom of speech.www.wsws.org
One cannot truly gauge popular opinion in Israel because:
a) opposition to the extreme right wing agenda of colonising the West Bank and ethnically cleansing Gaza is met by brutal police repression on the streets, as well as the trheat of being charged as a "Hamas supporter", as well as losing one's livelihood
b) the media is muzzled and censored. The Israeli population is denied the truth about what the IDF is perpetrating in Gaza.
The claim that Israel is a "democracy"" is a complete lie.
Palestinian Israelis meet with constant repression and discrimination.
Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians inside the Sde Teiman detention centre in the Negev desert and other Israeli prisons bears comparison with the notorious US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
A shocking CNN report last May revealed that Gazans imprisoned there—held without charge or legal representation on “national security grounds”—are blindfolded, forced into stress positions, beaten, insulted, and prevented from speaking for extended periods. Prisoners have had to have their limbs amputated due to their injuries.
I'm certainly not suggesting it will change.
I'm just pointing out that Smotrich is only representative of a small minority, rather than the whole of Judaism like Mark is portraying.
yeh yeh....73% back IDF or says it hasnt gone far enough.....push the line that it's just one or two directing traffic....the plebs in the west will believe anything...
Israeli Views of the Israel-Hamas War
Israelis are divided over the military response in Gaza, with Arabs much more likely than Jews to say it’s gone too far. Arabs’ and Jews’ views of many aspects of the war differ.www.pewresearch.org
And over 70% of Russians support the war in the Ukraine, they must read the Torah too. Same with the 70% of Palestinians who supported Oct 7 - big Torah readers. Or perhaps a combination of domestic propaganda and war brings out massive tribalism in all groups.
That was never my claim - my claim is that Smotrich is representative of a minority. He represents Israel's far right.so we're ditching the theory that only a small minority is doing it?
That was never my claim - my claim is that Smotrich is representative of a minority. He represents Israel's far right.