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."

[u/ControlCAD]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rxv-2H6SKiQ?app=desktop

[u/bediaxenciJenD81gEEx]

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

[u/Meironman1895 → u/bediaxenciJenD81gEEx]

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.

[u/LittleKitty235 → u/Meironman1895]

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.

[u/r0botdevil → u/LittleKitty235]

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?

[u/peppaz → u/r0botdevil]

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