Thanks to a gift link shared on Twitter, I got to read the New York Times expose from two days ago on how extremists have taken over the government of Israel (that's the gift link).
One of the authors was in Israeli IDF intelligence himself and has been covering Israeli defense, intelligence and terrorism for more than two decade.
I admit I have not paid enough attention to who the various players in the Netanyahu government are as their shockingly genocidal statements have shown up in various social media posts. This article gives their background.
For instance,
In October of [1995], [Itamar] Ben-Gvir spoke to Israeli television cameras holding up a Cadillac hood ornament, which he boasted he had broken off ... prime minister [Yitzhak Rabin]’s official car during chaotic anti-Oslo demonstrations in front of the Knesset. “We got to his car,” he said, “and we’ll get to him, too.” The following month, Rabin was dead.
Ben-Gvir, now Israel’s minister of national security, during a protest in 2009. Photo by Moti Milrod/Associated Press.
It's hard not to read this article without thinking of American settlers wiping out settlements of Native people on this continent in the name of "security," resulting in the militaristic culture we still face as a major factor in this country. Multiple U.S. presidents made their name as "Indian-fighters" committed to genocide and this is similar, except we live in a post-Geneva Convention world, and Israel is a signatory of that document.
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