Worth saying again that Benjamin Netanyahu came to power in 1996 after encouraging the assassination of liberal Yitzhak Rabin.
That was, in effect, a rightwing coup.
Netanyahu is a modern fascist and working with him isn’t in American interests.
Worth saying again that Benjamin Netanyahu came to power in 1996 after encouraging the assassination of liberal Yitzhak Rabin.
That was, in effect, a rightwing coup.
Netanyahu is a modern fascist and working with him isn’t in American interests.
@protecttruth @Alon Ive used the metaphor for many years in the opposite direction:
I like italian food. Doesn't mean I support Silvio Berlusconi.
I use it specifically in the context of Israel-Palestine quite often, whenever anyone does the YOU CANT ATTACK ISRAEL!!!?!
I wasnt "attacking" Israel. I was attacking the rightwing demagogue in power there, the far right government he leads and the far right policies they implement.
It has no bearing on my opinions of Israel or Isrealis.
@protecttruth I think overall the cringe Rabin fanfic ("Rabin would have negotiated a two-state solution by 1999") is closer to true than the hip Rabin hatefic ("Rabin would never have agreed to a Palestinian state") that some leftists like as backlash to the cringe fanfic, but it's pretty controversial either way. And as it is, Bibi in 1996-9 was unpopular and lost in a landslide in 1999; the present-day sentiment of Bibi as eternal leader is a post-2009 phenomenon.
Fair enough.
The biggest point now IMO is that most Americans, notably Biden and his social circle, have not realized just how far-right Bibi is and his government is.
That’s why so many Americans reply to me saying “wow I didn’t know that!”
I’d probably go further and say that it’s not just Israel: given the worldwide slide towards this authoritarian oligarchy, we should all start differentiating between a country’s leaders and its people.
Americans were not Trump and are not Biden, though we’ll probably stay closer to Biden than trump going forward. Iran is not Khameinei, Israel is not Bibi.
Until our democracies stabilize some against these attacks from oligarchy, differentiating will serve us well.
Pretty sure @Alon is going to provide some more context by correcting me in some way here.
For US audiences especially its important to lay this out with direct language
@protecttruth The context is that what you're saying is mostly true, but it's sometimes turned into an article of faith by people whose politics is Rabin fanfic. In truth, Rabin was down in the polls due to the suicide bombings. Bibi did incite for his murder, and zigzagged in a pretty disgusting way after the assassination happened as Peres got a sympathy polling boost, but he won less in a coup and more in some pretty aggressive last-minute negative campaigning ("Peres will divide Jerusalem").
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