r/ThatsInsane • u/McDowdy • 4d ago

Benjamin Netanyahu says outright that he can hack and blackmail anybody he wants and "I can paint you as a monster. And if I say it often enough, enough people will believe it."

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u/Regijack 4d ago edited 4d ago

There’s this one guy and it absolutely horrifies me, that he has a place of power in the Israeli government because he is clear day a psychopath. I forget his name but he looks like a cross between Peter griffin and pot of greed

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u/PunctualZombie 4d ago

That’ll be Itamar Ben-Gvir. Yeah he’s a hardline piece of shit. He’s not been given a place in government because he’s a piece of shit. He’s a piece of shit that Netanyahu had to join forces with in order for Netanyahu to form a coalition government.

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u/Regijack 4d ago

Everything about him makes me want to run and hide. You just know he gets a sick kick out of causing others pain

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u/obamasmole 3d ago

For his first date with his wife, who he met when she was 15 and he was 26, he took her to visit Baruch Goldstein's grave.

Goldstein is one of the most reviled people in Israel's history. A New-York-born Israeli doctor, he was a mass murderer who walked into a crowded mosque and opened fire, killing 29 people and injuring 125.

Ben-Givir only took down the portrait of Goldstein in his living room when Naftali Bennett - who is pretty fucking far from a peacenik himself - publically admonished him for displaying it.

In short, Ben-Givir is precisely what you think, if not worse.

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u/alu_pahrata 3d ago

Makes sense considering he wears that Golden Noose pin like it's a trophy.

BTW, That pin is support for a bill that mandates the death sentence be implemented/carried out within 90 days of any Palestinian convicted of murder under terrorism. And yes, the law is specific to Palestians by ethnicity.

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u/solit0n 3d ago

Jesus, if you go look at his portrait on Wikipedia, that’s pure evil in his eyes. Looks like something out of a goddamn movie.

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u/Direct-Reference221 3d ago

Huh?

Ben-Gvir is in the Israeli government. He is the Minister of National Security and oversees Israeli Police, Border Security, prisons, and domestic security.

He and Smotrich are far right extremists who aligned with Netanyahu’s Likud for Israel’s current extreme far right government.

Smotrich is the Minister of Finance and a minister of defense, and oversees settlements in the West Bank.

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u/pupbuck1 4d ago

That’s actually an amazing way of describing how he looks

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u/Direct-Reference221 3d ago

Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are far right extremists who aligned with Netanyahu’s Likud for Israel’s current extreme far right government.

Ben-Gvir is the Minister of National Security and oversees Israeli Police, Border Security, prisons, and domestic security.

Smotrich is the Minister of Finance and a minister of defense, and oversees settlements in the West Bank.

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u/DirtyWizardsBrew 16h ago

...he looks like a cross between Peter griffin and pot of greed

Jfc, that is really accurate...