Heidi Li FeldmanNetanyahu, like his fan Donald Trump, is a corrupt would-be authoritarian with no regard for the well-being of anybody other than himself. #disgusted
Miles Offit... 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦@heidilifeldman I can't help but wonder about their near-parallel paths of failed leadership, unprecedented corruption, and final spiraling desperation.
Grassroots JoeHis radical right-wing governing coalition cannot fall soon enough.
Coach Pāṇini ®@joeinwynnewood @heidilifeldman
I think people who don’t live there underestimate how radicalized the average Israeli has become: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-comedy-cellar-live-from-the-table/id1092965609?i=1000652870006
The next-generation of children might be even more so.
The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table: An Israeli liberal mugged by reality. Uncomfortable Conversations within Israel - Rafi DeMogge is the pseudonym of an Israel-based author and political demographer. on Apple Podcasts
Show The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table, Ep An Israeli liberal mugged by reality. Uncomfortable Conversations within Israel - Rafi DeMogge is the pseudonym of an Israel-based author and political demographer. - Apr 18, 2024
I have close relatives in Israel. The left isn't what it once was and the far right has come out from under the rock it had long been placed under, just as is the case here in the US.
But don't mistake volume for either numbers or wider support.
The massive anti-government street protests before 10/7 and now make that clear.
Just as 9/11 seemed to tilt the US to the right but didn't, so too the anger and trauma of 10/7 may make Israel look tilted right, but it's not.
Misuse Case@joeinwynnewood @paninid @heidilifeldman There’s a lot of impetus on much of the U.S. left to say that all Israelis are on board with oppressing and slaughtering Palestinians (even though they aren’t) and I suspect it has something to do with a lot of people showing their assess by celebrating Hamas attacks, saying Jewish Israelis are settlers who should be driven off the land, etc. and not wanting to come to terms with it.
@MisuseCase @paninid @heidilifeldman
I'll go with there's a lot of ignorance of the myriad complexities of the long history of the Levant that will persist for the great majority of people making it easy for them to draw ahistorical and incorrect conclusions.
@joeinwynnewood @MisuseCase @heidilifeldman
Agreed.
As an #American, the reason I have empathy for Israelis - or anyone in the Levant who aren’t terrible people - is I can imagine what it would feel like to be governed by a sociopath.
It would probably feel like a second Trump administration.
That would suck.
I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
https://sampathpanini.medium.com/two-millennia-of-nuance-94b2e09f9a24
LexiGirl@heidilifeldman you can add Putin to this list too. We are all at the mercy of literal madmen.
Joe Stewart@heidilifeldman
I believe Netanyahu is fundamentally motivated by his desire to stay out of prison.
Everything else is noise intended to hide that fact. Exactly like Donald Trump.
Andreas K@heidilifeldman Well, but you do have to admit that WW3, or at least a nice big regional war, would keep his legal troubles at bay?
So you have to see it from Bibi's perspective, here is the perspective that he might end up in jail for real, or his was social work hours? There the alternative is a couple of millions dead.
Bibi is such a hero, I'm sure you see it also, that he will find himself forced to take that sacrifice. For the good of humankind. 🤮