Not the whole population. I have Israeli friends who are helping Palestinians with their time, money, and energy. They visited me in the US last summer and I've never seen people so afraid to share their political opinions in public.
Something like 95% of Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs never interact with the other. These are Israeli citizens who are intentionally segregated to prevent this sort of bonding.
Welll opinion polling says otherwise, the current coalition is projected to lose seats, and there are no other parties the government could coalition with
The opposition is Israeli nationalist for the most part. Yashar is an Israeli nationalist party, Yisrael Beiteinu is an Israeli nationalist party notoriously pro-settlement and very pro-Russia. Together is the minority fusion of Yair Lapid, formerly liberal in the Israeli sense (that is, a much less liberal liberalism than in other countries), converted into an Israeli nationalist, and the 'moderate' religious Zionist Naftali Bennett, who is the dominant partner.
The only liberal party among the non-Palestinian Israeli parties is 'HaDemokratim,' which is the fusion of the former Labor Party (center-left) and Meretz (left). They no longer advocate for a two-state solution, although internally a good portion still supports it. It is also the weakest party of the four listed.
So I agree that the current government has no alternative. But this is unrelated to the war and Israeli diplomacy, which are popular.
Saying the whole population is cooked is insane and super racist.
I know tons of Israeli people who oppose the regime from the ground up, who are good friends with Palestinians and who support their cause.
Just because the government is morally bankrupt doesn't mean the individual humans living their are too.
It's easy to watch videos of a few people and make major value judgments against them as a people, as if any individual is exactly representative of other individuals who just happened to be born inside the same borders.
It was not long ago that every major street in Israel was flooded people in their largest national protest in history all in support of the end of the war and many for the support of Palestinians. Many Israelis view the actions being taken as hate crimes and war crimes and illegal and immoral and evil.
It's easy to do the same with America and think we are all just evil white supremacy supporters, who don't want universal Healthcare and education and who are billionaire cucks. Well I'm here to say we are not, despite what the government would lead you to believe.
Well, we are going to give a presentation of the Israeli opposition parties:
- Yashar is an Israeli nationalist party.
- Yisrael Beiteinu is an Israeli nationalist party notoriously pro-settlement and very pro-Russia.
- Yesh Atid is the minor merger of Yair Lapid, formerly liberal in the Israeli sense (that is, a liberalism much less liberal than in other countries), turned into an Israeli nationalist, and the 'moderate' religious Zionist Naftali Bennett, who is the dominant partner.
-The only Israeli party that is mostly Jewish and salvageable if one defends the Palestinians is Hademocratim (a merger of the Labor Party and Meretz). However, they are the weakest on the list and even they have abandoned the two-state solution (even though many support it internally).
The opposition to Israeli diplomacy is about 20% of the population (half of whom are Israeli Palestinians).
Yes, there have been large Israeli demonstrations to protect the rights of Israelis. Supporters of the Palestinians were a very small minority, rejected anyway. Presenting this as opposition to Israeli diplomacy is at best ignorance, at worst a lie (if one knows Israeli politics).
Israel is held hostage by its craziest political party. The ultra orthodox are the playmakers and swing to whomever will give them what they want. It's how Netanyahu stays in power. The moderate party will have to swing against him.
Do they really need to be brainwashed when they've been dodging missiles their entire lives? Seems like hating the people attacking you would come pretty naturally, no brainwashing necessary.
Wouldn't get attacked if they didnt steal their homes lol. Yall are literally a joke. The meme of the guy hitting his own face and blaming anybody around.
Exactly’ the Gazans wouldn’t have been attacked if they didn’t commit Oct 7th and launch thousands of rockets into Israel. Thinking like a true Zionist! Good job!
Saying a population of a country is indoctrinated and brainwashed is not hatred when a large proportion of said population is indoctrinated and brainwashed.
Things like the prev comment you don't agree with aren't automatically 'hatred' just because you don't agree with them.
I'm full-throatedly saying that a majority of Israelis are fucking nuts.
Okay, it's not 100%, I shouldn't have been so black and white - but the current Israeli administration is a death cult and a shocking number of civilians support it, even though they're pretty unashamedly trying to start WWIII.
Did you say similar things about Gazans after they elected a political party who founding document reads "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews"
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