• Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    he’s called that way because he can create a coalition with anyone, even with a non-zionist ultra-orthodox party like the utj.
    and even when it seems like he has no chance of getting enough mandates / forming a coalition.

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      7 months ago

      And because he’s been Israel’s PM for about half the past 30 years. What I want to say is: Enough people like him that he keeps getting reelected, and even now people aren’t objecting to his policies but rather because he wants to sidestep democracy. I mean good thing they’re trying to defend “democracy” (it’s debatable how much an Apartheid state where 5 million people don’t have voting rights can call itself a democracy but that aside) but the fact that words like “war crime” or “genocide” don’t appear even once in this article (except when talking about October 7th) is very damning.

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        7 months ago

        in the last election 70% of eligible voters voted, 23% voted for the likud (bibi).

        and people have been objecting to his policies for years, but didn’t believe protesting would help. especially after the 2011 protests changed nothing.

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          7 months ago

          in the last election 70% of eligible voters voted, 23% voted for the likud (bibi).

          I’m not talking about Likud alone; I’m talking about the right wing in general since they all seem to agree that they should steal Palestinian land for Lebensraum. Also I was specifically talking about his policies relating to Palestine, not as a whole.

          Anyway I haven’t seen any evidence that there’s significant Israeli opposition against the genocide in Palestine, especially given that the Israeli right wing is actually growing.