The Cancer That Is Netanyahu

[skews13]

But the relative calm of the last decade-and-a-half was built upon a series of illusions: that the Palestinians and their aspirations for freedom could be hidden behind concrete barriers and ignored; that any remaining resistance could be managed through a combination of technology and overwhelming firepower; that the world, and especially Sunni Arab states, had grown so tired of the Palestinian issue that it could be removed from the global agenda, and consequently, that Israeli governments could do as they pleased and suffer few consequences.


The attack on 7 October shattered all these presumptions. Hamas gunmen on motorbikes and the backs of pickup trucks sailed through the “smart” barrier that cost more than the entire GDP of Grenada. Caught off guard, Israel’s army appeared almost immobilised, unable to regain control of some towns and kibbutzim for more than 48 hours. Every aspect of Netanyahu’s project collapsed on the Saturday morning Israelis have taken to calling “the black shabbat”.

Successive Netanyahu governments did not make Israelis safer. Instead, they made them vulnerable to attacks such as the one Hamas carried out. Netanyahu did not chart a path for Israel out of its dependence on the United States. Instead, he left Israel as dependent on its US backer as it was during the only comparable disaster in Israel’s history, the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Netanyahu promised to streamline the state and make government more efficient. Instead, Israel’s bureaucracy has been hollowed out, its social services underfunded and unresponsive.

And yet, while Netanyahu’s vision for Israel has been utterly discredited, there is no clear successor poised to break with it. The iron tracks that Netanyahu laid may prove too hard to shift. The current crisis may very well mark the end of Netanyahu’s public career. But Israel may also be trapped in conditions of his making long after he is gone.

The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israelâs longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his image

The long read: He first became prime minister in 1996, and has been pushing the country further right ever since. Most agree his political days are numbered – but the approach he established will prove very difficult to shift

www.theguardian.com

There is no safe right leaning government.

 

[1srelluc]

But the relative calm of the last decade-and-a-half was built upon a series of illusions: that the Palestinians and their aspirations for freedom could be hidden behind concrete barriers and ignored; that any remaining resistance could be managed through a combination of technology and overwhelming firepower; that the world, and especially Sunni Arab states, had grown so tired of the Palestinian issue that it could be removed from the global agenda, and consequently, that Israeli governments could do as they pleased and suffer few consequences.


The attack on 7 October shattered all these presumptions. Hamas gunmen on motorbikes and the backs of pickup trucks sailed through the “smart” barrier that cost more than the entire GDP of Grenada. Caught off guard, Israel’s army appeared almost immobilised, unable to regain control of some towns and kibbutzim for more than 48 hours. Every aspect of Netanyahu’s project collapsed on the Saturday morning Israelis have taken to calling “the black shabbat”.

Successive Netanyahu governments did not make Israelis safer. Instead, they made them vulnerable to attacks such as the one Hamas carried out. Netanyahu did not chart a path for Israel out of its dependence on the United States. Instead, he left Israel as dependent on its US backer as it was during the only comparable disaster in Israel’s history, the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Netanyahu promised to streamline the state and make government more efficient. Instead, Israel’s bureaucracy has been hollowed out, its social services underfunded and unresponsive.

And yet, while Netanyahu’s vision for Israel has been utterly discredited, there is no clear successor poised to break with it. The iron tracks that Netanyahu laid may prove too hard to shift. The current crisis may very well mark the end of Netanyahu’s public career. But Israel may also be trapped in conditions of his making long after he is gone.

The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israelâs longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his image

The long read: He first became prime minister in 1996, and has been pushing the country further right ever since. Most agree his political days are numbered – but the approach he established will prove very difficult to shift

www.theguardian.com

There is no safe right leaning government.

Damn, you pulled it off again!

 

[Oddball]

It's totally OK to just go ahead and say that you hate Jews....It's not a secret.

 

[JoeB131]

But the relative calm of the last decade-and-a-half was built upon a series of illusions: that the Palestinians and their aspirations for freedom could be hidden behind concrete barriers and ignored; that any remaining resistance could be managed through a combination of technology and overwhelming firepower; that the world, and especially Sunni Arab states, had grown so tired of the Palestinian issue that it could be removed from the global agenda, and consequently, that Israeli governments could do as they pleased and suffer few consequences.


The attack on 7 October shattered all these presumptions. Hamas gunmen on motorbikes and the backs of pickup trucks sailed through the “smart” barrier that cost more than the entire GDP of Grenada. Caught off guard, Israel’s army appeared almost immobilised, unable to regain control of some towns and kibbutzim for more than 48 hours. Every aspect of Netanyahu’s project collapsed on the Saturday morning Israelis have taken to calling “the black shabbat”.

Successive Netanyahu governments did not make Israelis safer. Instead, they made them vulnerable to attacks such as the one Hamas carried out. Netanyahu did not chart a path for Israel out of its dependence on the United States. Instead, he left Israel as dependent on its US backer as it was during the only comparable disaster in Israel’s history, the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Netanyahu promised to streamline the state and make government more efficient. Instead, Israel’s bureaucracy has been hollowed out, its social services underfunded and unresponsive.

And yet, while Netanyahu’s vision for Israel has been utterly discredited, there is no clear successor poised to break with it. The iron tracks that Netanyahu laid may prove too hard to shift. The current crisis may very well mark the end of Netanyahu’s public career. But Israel may also be trapped in conditions of his making long after he is gone.

The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israelâs longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his image

The long read: He first became prime minister in 1996, and has been pushing the country further right ever since. Most agree his political days are numbered – but the approach he established will prove very difficult to shift

www.theguardian.com

There is no safe right leaning government.

Interesting article.

The problem is that Netanyahu isn't the disease, he's just the rash it has broken out into.

The disease is Zionism, which has always been predicated on a lie.

That lie is "A land without a people for a people without a land." Except that land had people on it and they weren't pleased with being displaced.


I remember back in the 1980s, in UIC< every year we'd have the Jewish club, Hillel, would organize an Israeli Independence Day celebration, and every year, the Palestinians students would march around in a circle chanting, "Palestine is Arab Land". and "Reagan, Began you can't hide, we charge you with Genocide".

Here I am now, an old man, 40 years later, and they are still fighting, people who weren't even born yet when those demonstrations happened.

 

[1srelluc]

It's totally OK to just go ahead and say that you hate Jews....It's not a secret.

He's deflecting his anti-Semitism now by dogging on Netanyahu.....It's been a common pattern in his last few retarded threads.

 

[MarcATL]

But the relative calm of the last decade-and-a-half was built upon a series of illusions: that the Palestinians and their aspirations for freedom could be hidden behind concrete barriers and ignored; that any remaining resistance could be managed through a combination of technology and overwhelming firepower; that the world, and especially Sunni Arab states, had grown so tired of the Palestinian issue that it could be removed from the global agenda, and consequently, that Israeli governments could do as they pleased and suffer few consequences.


The attack on 7 October shattered all these presumptions. Hamas gunmen on motorbikes and the backs of pickup trucks sailed through the “smart” barrier that cost more than the entire GDP of Grenada. Caught off guard, Israel’s army appeared almost immobilised, unable to regain control of some towns and kibbutzim for more than 48 hours. Every aspect of Netanyahu’s project collapsed on the Saturday morning Israelis have taken to calling “the black shabbat”.

Successive Netanyahu governments did not make Israelis safer. Instead, they made them vulnerable to attacks such as the one Hamas carried out. Netanyahu did not chart a path for Israel out of its dependence on the United States. Instead, he left Israel as dependent on its US backer as it was during the only comparable disaster in Israel’s history, the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Netanyahu promised to streamline the state and make government more efficient. Instead, Israel’s bureaucracy has been hollowed out, its social services underfunded and unresponsive.

And yet, while Netanyahu’s vision for Israel has been utterly discredited, there is no clear successor poised to break with it. The iron tracks that Netanyahu laid may prove too hard to shift. The current crisis may very well mark the end of Netanyahu’s public career. But Israel may also be trapped in conditions of his making long after he is gone.

The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israelâs longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his image

The long read: He first became prime minister in 1996, and has been pushing the country further right ever since. Most agree his political days are numbered – but the approach he established will prove very difficult to shift

www.theguardian.com

There is no safe right leaning government.

So true.

 

[Polishprince]

cancer my ass.

Prime Minister Netanyahu's plan is to defeat terrorism. Giving Iran and Hamas free reign to create terror is not the way to long lasting peace.

The key, IMHO, for a tremendous future for Palestinians is for them to renounce Terrorism forever and to surrender unconditionally to the Jews. Then they can move on.

In 1945 President Truman didn't seek a truce or ceasefire from Emperor Hirohito of the Empire of Japan. He sought and obtained capitulation. The Japanese might not have liked it at the time, but in the medium to long run, they've had a very successful run since the one sided peace was signed on the Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Now its time for the Pals to realize they have reached the end of the road.

 

[martybegan]

cancer my ass.

Prime Minister Netanyahu's plan is to defeat terrorism. Giving Iran and Hamas free reign to create terror is not the way to long lasting peace.

The key, IMHO, for a tremendous future for Palestinians is for them to renounce Terrorism forever and to surrender unconditionally to the Jews. Then they can move on.

In 1945 President Truman didn't seek a truce or ceasefire from Emperor Hirohito of the Empire of Japan. He sought and obtained capitulation. The Japanese might not have liked it at the time, but in the medium to long run, they've had a very successful run since the one sided peace was signed on the Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Now its time for the Pals to realize they have reached the end of the road.

Otherwise known as a "Clauswitizian" Resolution to the conflict, not just a pause in it.

The Germans and the Japanese were forced to admit they lost, and to give up forever claims on certain lands.

 

[1srelluc]

Otherwise known as a "Clauswitizian" Resolution to the conflict, not just a pause in it.

The Germans and the Japanese were forced to admit they lost, and to give up forever claims on certain lands.

Yep, Unconditional Surrender can prolong a war but after it's won it lays a lot of things to rest for good and all.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

The 10/7 attacks could not have happened without inside help.

Until that is resolved, these attacks will happen again and again and again.

 

[Augustine_]

cancer my ass.

Prime Minister Netanyahu's plan is to defeat terrorism. Giving Iran and Hamas free reign to create terror is not the way to long lasting peace.

The key, IMHO, for a tremendous future for Palestinians is for them to renounce Terrorism forever and to surrender unconditionally to the Jews. Then they can move on.

In 1945 President Truman didn't seek a truce or ceasefire from Emperor Hirohito of the Empire of Japan. He sought and obtained capitulation. The Japanese might not have liked it at the time, but in the medium to long run, they've had a very successful run since the one sided peace was signed on the Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Now its time for the Pals to realize they have reached the end of the road.

Defeat terrorism by creating generation after generation of terrorists. Brilliant.

 

[1srelluc]

Defeat terrorism by creating generation after generation of terrorists. Brilliant.

Nits make lice sure enough.....But not if you kill them all.

 

[Augustine_]

Nits make lice sure enough.....But not if you kill them all.

What a great genocidal sentiment. Perfect for making sure our children and grandchildren are plagued by more terrorism.

 

[Polishprince]

Defeat terrorism by creating generation after generation of terrorists. Brilliant.

Did Unconditional Surrender create generation after generation of Japanese Imperialists in the land of the rising fucking sun?

Think logically , Aug.

 

[martybegan]

The 10/7 attacks could not have happened without inside help.

Until that is resolved, these attacks will happen again and again and again.

I doubt it. This is far beyond what they have ever tried before, and they were smart enough to keep it off any electronic signals.

When the Germans crossed the border into France, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg in 1940 they only gave their own troops 24 hours notice, and even less, all by word of mouth and messengers. I think Hamas did the same thing.

 

[Augustine_]

Did Unconditional Surrender create generation after generation of Japanese Imperialists in the land of the rising fucking sun?

Think logically , Aug.

You are comparing a 6 year long war between nations to a millennia long war between religious fanatics.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

I doubt it. This is far beyond what they have ever tried before, and they were smart enough to keep it off any electronic signals.

When the Germans crossed the border into France, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg in 1940 they only gave their own troops 24 hours notice, and even less, all by word of mouth and messengers. I think Hamas did the same thing.

Word on the street is there was a stand down order and the fences were off. Seems like if everything was running normally, such an attack would be impossible.

 

[Polishprince]

You are comparing a 6 year long war between nations to a millennia long war between religious fanatics.

The Japanese were the ultimate in religious fanatics. They believed their emperor was Almighty God, if you'll remember. Hirohito denounced his presumed divinity after the war.

 

[martybegan]

Word on the street is there was a stand down order and the fences were off. Seems like if everything was running normally, such an attack would be impossible.

Word on the Street was the Japanese Carriers on Dec 6th were by Malaysia.

 

[Independentthinker]

But the relative calm of the last decade-and-a-half was built upon a series of illusions: that the Palestinians and their aspirations for freedom could be hidden behind concrete barriers and ignored; that any remaining resistance could be managed through a combination of technology and overwhelming firepower; that the world, and especially Sunni Arab states, had grown so tired of the Palestinian issue that it could be removed from the global agenda, and consequently, that Israeli governments could do as they pleased and suffer few consequences.


The attack on 7 October shattered all these presumptions. Hamas gunmen on motorbikes and the backs of pickup trucks sailed through the “smart” barrier that cost more than the entire GDP of Grenada. Caught off guard, Israel’s army appeared almost immobilised, unable to regain control of some towns and kibbutzim for more than 48 hours. Every aspect of Netanyahu’s project collapsed on the Saturday morning Israelis have taken to calling “the black shabbat”.

Successive Netanyahu governments did not make Israelis safer. Instead, they made them vulnerable to attacks such as the one Hamas carried out. Netanyahu did not chart a path for Israel out of its dependence on the United States. Instead, he left Israel as dependent on its US backer as it was during the only comparable disaster in Israel’s history, the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Netanyahu promised to streamline the state and make government more efficient. Instead, Israel’s bureaucracy has been hollowed out, its social services underfunded and unresponsive.

And yet, while Netanyahu’s vision for Israel has been utterly discredited, there is no clear successor poised to break with it. The iron tracks that Netanyahu laid may prove too hard to shift. The current crisis may very well mark the end of Netanyahu’s public career. But Israel may also be trapped in conditions of his making long after he is gone.

The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israelâs longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his image

The long read: He first became prime minister in 1996, and has been pushing the country further right ever since. Most agree his political days are numbered – but the approach he established will prove very difficult to shift

www.theguardian.com

There is no safe right leaning government.

The cancer is those who refuse to acknowledge Israel's right to exist and want to wipe Jews from the face of the Earth.