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    1 month ago

    The issue isn’t Netanyahu. Well he’s a compounding issue but the core problem is that everyone but the leftest of lefties stopped believing in the peace process after Rabin’s assassination. As the Haaretz said: Yigal Amir won. The right-wing approach to security, “antagonise Palestinians into submission”, never got challenged by anyone since Rabin’s death. Maybe it’ll now get challenged as October 7th happened on the right’s watch, so obviously they can’t provide security, but don’t expect the Israeli people to realise that in a fortnight, so far little is happening: The press is self-censoring because they know no Israeli wants to even look at what the IDF is doing in Gaza and the West Bank, protests are about Netanyahu’s corruption (which is pretty much the only thing distinguishing him and Gantz, not politics) as well as families of hostages complaining about the Kahanites being more interested in killing Arabs than getting their relatives back. It’s not (necessarily) the war they’re opposed to but the priorities.