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Israel/Palestine

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

2. He's not a one-off fluke.

Reply to still_one (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 26, 2016, 09:33 PM

Dec 2016

Most dominant figure in Israeli politics since, and as of 2019, including Ben- Gurion. He's to today's Israel what Reagan was to the USA in 1984.

He won re-election on the strength of anti-Arab incitement and vowing to prevent a Palestinian state.

US pressure has been a guard rail for the Israelis in how they address the Palestinian situation. That guard rail is now gone and replaced by a Kahanist cheerleader in the White House.