... there can be no doubt about that, and Israel has embraced a siege mentality for virtually all its existence, which Netanyahu has exploited to his benefit.
West Banks "settlers" have perpetuated illegal actions that Menachem Begin bragged about when describing what he did in '47 and '48. Netanyahu's popularity with Right-Wing groups parallels that of Trump's with the mental defectives in the MAGA movement, and I excuse no one in either extremist camp. America has earned all the opprobrium it's received on the international stage, and it will be decades before we regain the trust of the world at large, if we ever get it at all.
Religious fanaticism is the root cause of most of the conflicts in the world today, at least those that aren't the echoes of Britain's colonial empire building and America's murderous "Manifest Destiny".
Israel's destiny is of far lesser concern to me than what is happening right under our noses in our own country. Christian Nationalists are no different, and certainly no better, than the bloodthirsty psychopaths that rile up the nutcases in any religious movement in any part of the world. But you cannot rehabilitate a psychopath; you can only contain it, or subject it to the ultimate punishment. All that said, we gotta clean our own house of Right-wing influences before we point fingers at anyone else's skeleton-filled closets.
The Right does absolutely nothing of value for anyone except to give tax breaks to billionaires that don't need it, and SURE as fuck don't deserve it, and all at the expense of those who can least afford it.
As I've said more times that I can count, conservatism deserves an ignominious seat at the Dark End of the Sociopathy Spectrum, or the entire planet, along with everyone and everything on it, will perish, and not with a bang, but a whimper.
Rant off.
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