Monday, September 9, 2024

Even Israel is Split Between Right and Left

 Here in America we are so divided it’s hard to see how we can continue on this trajectory very much longer.  Will the November election lead to riots and unrest?  How do you even communicate with the 50% who can’t tell you what a woman is?

But it’s surprising to know that Israel is also going through the same divisiveness.  There’s isn’t about womanhood but about what to do about the wars raging all around them all targeting the destruction of Israel.

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When Hamas’s barbaric execution of six Israeli hostages was announced on the news, it sent immediate shock waves throughout Israel. It evoked the deepest of Jewish traumas—that of helplessness. After the shock came the rage. But the targets of that rage were not the same for everyone. The Israeli X feed was neatly divided. The right-wing feed was outraged at Hamas. The left-wing feed was outraged at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

I browsed left-wing tweets throughout that first day and astonishingly, the overwhelming majority did not even contain the word “Hamas.” If you had only those tweets to go by, you might have reached the conclusion that Netanyahu murdered the hostages and that Hamas had nothing to do with it.

https://www.jns.org/sinwars-useful-idiots/

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