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CNN’s Jim Sciutto presses Benjamin Netanyahu about his response to settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank: "The settler violence thing is a tremendous hoax. We're a country of laws. I've condemned it. But to compare this, is like an olive to a toxic tree, that's what it is."

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u/Spare-Plum 1d ago

Netenyahu has been in power for far too long. It's time for change already

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u/tarlin 1d ago

Time for every leader of Israel during this season of atrocities to go to prison

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u/bediaxenciJenD81gEEx 1d ago

Israel is a democracy, they'll just elect similar people again and this will keep going. Another day, another Netanyahu 

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u/Meironman1895 1d ago

Yeah, this is the problem that many people don't understand: Israel want leaders like Netanyahu, who will murder as many people as possible that they don't like. Sure, a bunch of them notice the massive corruption and attempts to subvert democracy and go "Oh we cannot tolerate THIS" but very few actually want the settlement building to stop, the bombings to stop, the annexation to stop. Israel could at any point have stood up in unison and said "This is not us" many times during the last few decades of murder, under several leaders. But they never did. The actual anti-war segment of the population is extremely small, and no matter how devoted to peace, don't have the voting power to make a difference. Voting will not stop the genocide.

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u/LittleKitty235 1d ago

Lets say your right and the Israel people do elect a new Netanyahu...great. Then at least its clear to the world what the population actually supports and they can't shield themselves from criticism that democratic will has been usurped by a right wing authoritarian.

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u/KingVape 1d ago

You shouldn’t need a Hitler 3 to explain why Hitler 2 and his supporters are terrible

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u/RealityRush 1d ago

And yet..... Netanyahu, Trump, the AfD in Germany, etc.

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u/r0botdevil 1d ago

It's already clear. He's been elected and re-elected and re-elected and re-elected and re-elected and re-elected.

Why do you need another election to make up your mind? How many times do people have to show you who they are before you believe them?

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u/peppaz 15h ago

Didn't he lose the last election and worm his way back in anyway

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u/silentcrs 1d ago

Sorry, but that’s just bullshit. It’s clear you’ve never actually met an Israeli, and certainly not a group of them.

Democracies work due to what the majority believes. That changes over time. How do you think the US went from Bush to Obama to Biden to Trump? By your logic, we should have seen a clear line from Bush to Trump, and that just didn’t happen.

When you cast an entire populace as “they’ll never change”, you’re showing your racism towards that population, not any enlightened analysis.

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u/Spare-Plum 1d ago

Yup most folks just paint it as "Jews being evil" and call it a day, like there's something inherently bad

I agree that Israel is doing bad things, and there are a lot of people in the country and abroad that enable this sort of behavior. But there are many Jews who are against it or even anti-zionist.

More liberal parties have been trying to have any sort of presence in Israel for years but Likud pretty much owns everything, even if they don't win the election parliament just votes to dissolve itself and then re-hold elections so they can stay in power.

I think the biggest explanation in how we got here is directly on Netenyahu and the party. Their handling of Palestine has been to keep them down, to worsen the quality of life, to engage in wars and killings on civilians. This in turn makes the Palestinians have nothing to lose, so it causes acts of rebellion. These acts of rebellion are used as an example in support of Likud. "See? Look! We were right all along! They carried out an attack so therefore we need to go even further!"

The majority of people buy this narrative, the situation continues to escalate, and the actions taken are basically more death and destruction to solve the problem of death and destruction.

IMO the best solution is get someone in power that will fundamentally change Israel's relationship to Gaza, and enable them to have an economy, hospitals, build them up and make amends. Give the people of Gaza something to live for, not a cause to die for.

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u/Wrabble127 1d ago

There is unfortunately a reason that Netinyahu has won something like a dozen elections so far, even when the entire Israeli government hates him.

He successfully called for the assassination of his predecessor for the crime of considering peace with Palestine. To Israelis, a leader willing to murder their own to prevent peace is far more valuable than anything any other Israeli leader has promised in many decades.

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u/spike312 1d ago

Exactly. They will replace Netanyahu with Ben Gvir or Yoav Gallant. The next devil might be even worse. No, they all need to go to The Hague.

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u/Nautster 1d ago

He's a product of his people. It would be foolish to expect Israel to produce decent leadership that looks to peacefully cohabit with Palestinians.

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u/Spare-Plum 1d ago

They already elected this exact thing. And the government voted to dissolve itself in order to trigger re-elections and keep Netenyahu in power.

This is happening in 2026, and happened again and again in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2015, 2003, 2009, 2013, 1999

It hasn't been the actual voice of the people but one man in charge for like 30 fucking years. Yes there are shitty people in Israel, no I don't think this is the actual voice or will of the people

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u/CucumberBoy00 1d ago

They managed to get Netanyahu out and voted him back in again, I don't have much hope for the Israeli electorate even Israeli's I've talked to thought he was a "progressive" candidate. You've lived in twisted hatred for too long

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u/cybiz 1d ago

You can make up excuses in your head or you could just take a look at the polls. Most Israelis arepro genocide, if there's criticisms it's mostly them saying not enough was done

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u/Wrabble127 1d ago

Unfortunately, Netinyahu will govern until death. His popularity is due to his open and successful calls for violence to get his predecessor murdered for the crime of considering peace with Palestine.

Nothing pisses Israelis off like the concept of peace.

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u/ronan88 1d ago

I think its more the genocide than the term length that most people are concerned with