The main problem with American who are ethnic Jews is that they fantasize and idealize the situation in Israel now. When I lived in NYC for close to 20 years and worked for subcontractors of the US Army Signal Corps to improve tactical communication gear I remained with the imaginary situation that was in the early 1970thies when Israel was still an idealistic country with great equality between their citizens with a single purpose to build a country based on humanitarian ideals justice and respect to the other.
Now many call me naive for still holding those values that evaporated and are so well explained in the 2 articles I attached before.
There are substantial movements within Israel that want to remove the present administration from power, but they are entrenched with the support of mostly uneducated people. To get a sense of what I am talking about I post quotes from some newspaper articles which tell the story that many Israelis think to exist.
IDF Deputy Chief Likens 'Revolting Trends' in Israeli Society to pre-Holocaust Germany 'On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we ought to discuss our ability to uproot the seeds of intolerance, violence, self-destruction and moral deterioration,' says Maj. Gen. Yair Golan. read more: haaretz.com
“The Holocaust must lead us to think about our public life, and more importantly, it must lead everyone who can, not merely those who want, to carry public responsibility. If there is something that frightens me about the memory of the Holocaust, it is seeing the abhorrent processes that took place in Europe, and Germany in particular, some 70, 80 or 90 years ago, and finding manifestations of these processes here among us in 2016,” Golan said at the Masua Holocaust Institute in Tel Yitzhak. By pointing to intolerant trends in Israeli society, the deputy army commander deviated from the accepted script of Jews as eternal victims.
Israel Has Been Infected by the Seeds of Fascism, Says ex-Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
Barak tells TV interviewer that 'there are no serious leaders left in the world who believe the Israeli government.' read more: haaretz.com
Former PM Barak: Neo-Nazi Rally in Charlottesville Reminiscent of Events in Israel Lawmakers Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni come out against Trump comments, saying there are not equal sides when it comes to anti-Semitism read more: haaretz.com
Opinion - In Israel, Growing Fascism and a Racism Akin to Early Nazism - They don’t wish to physically harm Palestinians. They only wish to deprive them of their basic human rights, such as self-rule in their own state and freedom from oppression - read more haaretz.com by Zeev Sternhell 19.01.2018
President Tries to Save Israel From Pyromaniac Netanyahu's Anti-Democratic Revolution - Reuven Rivlin sees his role as keeping Israel from descending into an abyss, led down by a PM plagued by graft investigations. Netanyahu wants an election, but doesn't yet have the power to get it done Oct 23, 2017 read more: haaretz.com
Ehud Barak’s Top 12 Zingers and Putdowns of Netanyahu and Co. No. 5: 'The prime minister’s Hitlerization of the transient regional threats, dangerous as they may be, is Holocaust degradation at its worst.' No. 12 “Only a blind, disingenuous, ignorant or kowtowing person will fail to recognize that the [government’s proposed laws] are a process of eroding democracy and the roots of fascism that have taken hold in this government. If it looks like the roots of fascism and walks like the roots of fascism and barks like the roots of fascism, then it is the roots of fascism.” read more: haaretz.com
The Plot Against Israel - Right-wing assaults on army, academia and judicial system erode Israel’s foundations and undermine its legitimacy by Chemi Shalev Jun 11, 2017 - Israeli academics who support a boycott and of what he perceives as a particularly egregious abuse of academic freedom: in a private Facebook post by a Hebrew University lecturer in which Bennett’s colleague in the Habayit Hayehudi party, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, was described as “neo-Nazi scum.” Read more: haaretz.com
The Creeping Fascism of Israel’s Right-wingers - It’s not by chance the latest government target is Israel’s universities: Academia offers a constant challenge to their dream of social discipline in the Jewish state and authorizing universities "to establish a unit that would monitor political activity" on campus. read more: haaretz.com
Netanyahu's New Start-up Nation: Israel, the Anti-Jewish State; Ladies and gentlemen, courtesy of a sinking Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel presents: The Protocols of the Elders of Zionism - Bradley Burston Jul 12, 2017 read more: haaretz.com
Israel sunk in 'incremental tyranny', say former Shin Bet chiefs Ami Ayalon and Carmi Gillon speak out. Two former heads of Israel’s powerful domestic intelligence service, the Shin Bet, have made an impassioned and powerful intervention ahead of events to mark the 50th anniversary of the country’s occupation of the Palestinian territories in June. One of the pair warned that the country’s political system was sunk in the process of “incremental tyranny”. theguardian.com
The First Jewish Military Coup When the values promoted by the Netanyahu government are seen by the army as a threat to Israel's existence, what will its commanders do? The Holocaust is about to create a military revolution in Israel. read more: haaretz.com
Neo-fascists Threaten the West. In Israel They've Already Arrived From America to Austria, belligerent, xenophobic ultra-nationalism is rising. But its hold on power in Israel is far more secure — and uncontested. Our political predicament is worse. In the 21st century, the forces of belligerent, xenophobic ultra-nationalism have a much stronger, more secure hold on power in Israel than they do in any Western country read more: haaretz.com
Israel's 'Fascist' Culture Minister Is but a Mouthpiece for Netanyahu - Netanyahu hasn't given up on his goal to wrest control over the new public broadcast corporation. The latest opposition to it has his fingerprints all over. read more: haaretz.com
Slippery slope to a Weimar Republic’ Israel loses its grip on democracy. The social and political divide in Israel is no longer between left and right, but between those who do and do not believe in democracy. by Charles Enderlin mondediplo.com
Woe to Israel if Its Government Rests on Racist Thugs - The case of far-right fan club “La Familia” constitutes another warning light about nature of Israel’s government. read more: haaretz.com
Neglect Rooted in Racism - There's a direct line connecting between Netanyahu's government's racists policies and its reluctance to address construction site accidents whose main victims are Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, foreign workers and asylum seekers read more: haaretz.com
Minister Bennett uses education to indoctrinate kids with nationalist ideas'
A Tel Aviv high school principal who slaughtered a sacred cow by canceling trips to death camps in Poland discusses fascism in Israeli society and accuses the education minister of tearing the country apart. read more: haaretz.com
IDF's chief rabbi-to-be permits raping women in wartime - Col. Eyal Karim, the IDF's intended next chief rabbi, has previously provided misogynistic interpretations of Jewish law that consider female conscription 'utterly forbidden' and permits raping 'attracting Gentile women' as a way to keep up morale; ynetnews.com
A former spy chief is calling on Israelis to revolt In a wide-ranging interview, former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy paints a worrying picture of the leadership abilities of PM Netanyahu and his suspicious relationship with Putin, as well as of the future of the Jewish state – but refuses to be pessimistic. read more: haaretz.com |
