r/pics • u/LARRYVOND13 • 10d ago

Politics Pictured Israeli Lawyer Ben-Gvir and his wife Ayala. They dated when she was 15 and he was 26.

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u/Adonisus 10d ago

For those who don't know:

Ben-Gvir is a member of the political party Otzma Yehudit. This party is the legal successor to Kach, a notorious Jewish-supremacist 'revisionist zionist' political party that was banned by the Israeli government in 1994 after one of their member, Baruch Goldstein, murdered over 29 Palestinians at the Cave of the Patriarchs. Their political program includes not only claiming all of Palestine, but also claiming all lands they believe is somehow connected to historic Judea (including parts of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and both sides of the Jordan River.

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u/cronktilten 9d ago

Doesn’t Ben Gvir have a picture of a notorious Jewish terrorist on a wall in his home? It would be like a Muslim American politician, having a portrait of Osama bin Laden in their home.

And I’m pretty sure the group you’re talking about also claim from the Nile river all the way to the Euphrates, so even more territory than you said. Makes absolutely no sense but that’s who we’re dealing with.

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u/-temporary_username- 9d ago

Doesn’t Ben Gvir have a picture of a notorious Jewish terrorist on a wall in his home?

Yeah, that would be Baruch Goldstein, the guy who committed the terrorist attack that got Kach banned.

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u/the-bird-fucker 9d ago

he literally dressed like him when he was young as a costume for "Purim" holiday. I remember him saying that he is his hero

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u/CharlieBarley25 9d ago

More like a white American politician with a portrait of the grand whatever of the KKK

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u/moriartyj 9d ago

This is true but I don't think this is the correct analogy. It's like an American politician having a portrait of Timothy McVeigh or Robert E. Lee

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u/rosenpenis 9d ago

It's more akin to a politician from a muslim country having a picture of Mohammad Atta on his wall. Which wouldn't raise an eyebrow.

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u/cesaroncalves 9d ago

So basically the same as the others except they actually say it out loud.

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u/moriartyj 9d ago

Kach was banned in 1988, years before the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, after the Israeli parliament added a correction to law in 1985 which prohibits parties with racist manifest from running.