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Anthony McIntyre ☠  Up until Benjamin Netanyahu, who has held the position for a total of thirteen years, Israel's longest serving Prime minister was its first, David Ben-Gurion. 

He too was a mass murderer responsible for the Nakba of 1948, described as follows by Middle East Eye:

In a premeditated military campaign, Zionist forces killed thousands of Palestinians, destroyed hundreds of villages and forcibly expelled 80 percent of the Palestinian population from their homeland. After more than a year of relentless violence, the newly created State of Israel captured 78 percent of historic Palestine. The remaining 22 percent, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, were occupied by Israel 19 years later and remain under Israeli military rule. 

This week's elections in Israel saw two prominent Kapo leaders Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot battle it out with each other for primacy. For victims of Israel atrocity the electoral battle must appear as something akin to Hitler versus Himmler for the leadership of Nazi Germany. Not much hope could have emerged from that for Jews trapped in Nazi talons, where the left claw will rip and tear children apart as readily and as mercilessly as the right.

Honesty and Netanyahu are not mutual concepts. They repel each other. Yet, the New Arab usefully identified an element of honesty in its observation: 

Netanyahu and the parties to his right are the most honest expression of the Israeli state: a state founded on ethnic cleansing and sustained through racism, apartheid, and genocide. Others dress this reality in the language of democracy, coexistence, and peace. Netanyahu does not bother.

Those holding out hope that Eisenkot will change much need not hold their breath. Leader of the so called centrist party, Yashar, he is a former chief of staff of the Israeli Army. When chief of Northern Command in Lebanon in 2006, he formulated the Dahiya Doctrine, named after a Beirut suburb destroyed by the Israel Occupation Forces, killing over a thousand civilians. The IDF lust for child murder ensured that the youngest were not spared. Over a third of those killed were children. If there is anything the Israelis genuinely believe from the Hebrew Bible, the Torah, it is the Passover where the firstborn of Egyptian families were murdered. A cruel good for a cruel people.

Eisenkot's accusers had no need to spell out the barbaric strategic logic behind the Dahiya doctrine, he did it himself:

What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on . . .We will apply disproportionate force on it (village) and cause great damage and destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases . . . This is not a recommendation. This is a plan. And it has been approved.

The outstanding Israeli journalist Gideon Levy days before the election warned that if Netanyahu were to win it would be disastrous. Yet, there is nothing to suggest that defeat for Netanyahu would result in a situation that would be in any way less disastrous,  or substantively different from what currently exists. 

Little can change as a result of an election in which:

over 77% of Israelis voted for right-wing and far-right parties, around 15%, largely Palestinian citizens of Israel, backed the Arab parties, and just 6.51% voted for the Zionist left.

What the election will do if Netanyahu is replaced as Prime Minister is give many in the West an opportunity to look away That includes our own government which seems hyper-aware of the truism that it is hard to get a government to see what is in front of its nose when staying within the cosy club depends on it not seeing what is in front of its nose.  

There is absolutely no reason for Drogheda Stands With Palestine or any of the other solidarity groups across the country to take the foot off the pedal if Eisenkot becomes Prime Minister of Kapo country.  The opposite is true. This government will use any opportunity to turn on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, treating them much the same as they have treated its students and young footballers seeking to come to Ireland while never once bothering itself to scrutinise IDF terrorists who can enter freely. The New Arab lays out concisely what any new regime offers.

Eisenkot and figures like him do not oppose the system so much as manage its image. Their objection to Ben-Gvir and Smotrich is not that Palestinian rights are being denied, but that the denial has become too visible, too crude and too damaging to Israel’s standing abroad.

We are standing here each week of the year, to ensure that Israel in this part of abroad has zero  standing.
 
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Anthony McIntyre ☠  Up until Benjamin Netanyahu, who has held the position for a total of thirteen years, Israel's longest serving Prime minister was its first, David Ben-Gurion. 

He too was a mass murderer responsible for the Nakba of 1948, described as follows by Middle East Eye:

In a premeditated military campaign, Zionist forces killed thousands of Palestinians, destroyed hundreds of villages and forcibly expelled 80 percent of the Palestinian population from their homeland. After more than a year of relentless violence, the newly created State of Israel captured 78 percent of historic Palestine. The remaining 22 percent, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, were occupied by Israel 19 years later and remain under Israeli military rule. 

This week's elections in Israel saw two prominent Kapo leaders Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot battle it out with each other for primacy. For victims of Israel atrocity the electoral battle must appear as something akin to Hitler versus Himmler for the leadership of Nazi Germany. Not much hope could have emerged from that for Jews trapped in Nazi talons, where the left claw will rip and tear children apart as readily and as mercilessly as the right.

Honesty and Netanyahu are not mutual concepts. They repel each other. Yet, the New Arab usefully identified an element of honesty in its observation: 

Netanyahu and the parties to his right are the most honest expression of the Israeli state: a state founded on ethnic cleansing and sustained through racism, apartheid, and genocide. Others dress this reality in the language of democracy, coexistence, and peace. Netanyahu does not bother.

Those holding out hope that Eisenkot will change much need not hold their breath. Leader of the so called centrist party, Yashar, he is a former chief of staff of the Israeli Army. When chief of Northern Command in Lebanon in 2006, he formulated the Dahiya Doctrine, named after a Beirut suburb destroyed by the Israel Occupation Forces, killing over a thousand civilians. The IDF lust for child murder ensured that the youngest were not spared. Over a third of those killed were children. If there is anything the Israelis genuinely believe from the Hebrew Bible, the Torah, it is the Passover where the firstborn of Egyptian families were murdered. A cruel good for a cruel people.

Eisenkot's accusers had no need to spell out the barbaric strategic logic behind the Dahiya doctrine, he did it himself:

What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on . . .We will apply disproportionate force on it (village) and cause great damage and destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases . . . This is not a recommendation. This is a plan. And it has been approved.

The outstanding Israeli journalist Gideon Levy days before the election warned that if Netanyahu were to win it would be disastrous. Yet, there is nothing to suggest that defeat for Netanyahu would result in a situation that would be in any way less disastrous,  or substantively different from what currently exists. 

Little can change as a result of an election in which:

over 77% of Israelis voted for right-wing and far-right parties, around 15%, largely Palestinian citizens of Israel, backed the Arab parties, and just 6.51% voted for the Zionist left.

What the election will do if Netanyahu is replaced as Prime Minister is give many in the West an opportunity to look away That includes our own government which seems hyper-aware of the truism that it is hard to get a government to see what is in front of its nose when staying within the cosy club depends on it not seeing what is in front of its nose.  

There is absolutely no reason for Drogheda Stands With Palestine or any of the other solidarity groups across the country to take the foot off the pedal if Eisenkot becomes Prime Minister of Kapo country.  The opposite is true. This government will use any opportunity to turn on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, treating them much the same as they have treated its students and young footballers seeking to come to Ireland while never once bothering itself to scrutinise IDF terrorists who can enter freely. The New Arab lays out concisely what any new regime offers.

Eisenkot and figures like him do not oppose the system so much as manage its image. Their objection to Ben-Gvir and Smotrich is not that Palestinian rights are being denied, but that the denial has become too visible, too crude and too damaging to Israel’s standing abroad.

We are standing here each week of the year, to ensure that Israel in this part of abroad has zero  standing.
 
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