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You know, I was going to ask you if israeli society is extreme or just the government that Netanyahu has put together, but I think you’ve already answered that. If I had asked you this on October 6, you’d probably have a different answer than you do today. October 7911 changed everything. Hate that, but that phrase. But I guess October 7 changed to everything with respect to the extremism and fanaticism of society.
As I see it, the extremism and fanaticism of the government because Netanyahu got in bed with these right wing lunatics is there. But the extremism and fanaticism of society didn’t come about until after October 7. Is that a fair analysis? I have to disagree, judge. There used to be a peace movement inside Israel. Now it’s pretty much dead, and it was dead long before October 6. That country has gone so far over into the extremes, and I think that’s the inevitable result.
When you base a state around supremacy of one ethnic group over its indigenous inhabitants, and you are founded on ethnic cleansing and your survival, your identity as a state, relies on perpetuating that ethnic cleansing, it’s inevitable. It’s going to just go over to the extreme rather than see any sense. That’s certainly what’s happened with Israel. .