re: #51 LudwigVanQuixote

Then you are being obtuse.

Likud is nothing like the teabags or European fascists, not even close. Honestly, given their support of social programs and environmental issues, they would barely rate as blue dog Democrats in the US.

Think about it. If Likud really were that right wing, some decades ago, there would have ceased to have been a Palestinian issue. The Palis would have been expelled in a full scale military campaign.

While there are some and by some I mean some hundreds of Israelis who hold views like those you are afraid of they really are only measurable in the hundreds. However, they would be unlikely to turn against Jews.

Also, in Israel, the religious right is not linked to the hawks directly. The very religious have their own small parties and agendas.

I never named Likud. My point is that Israel is having similar issues with the right wing. We’ve seen it with the settler movement. Obviously we’ll never see a large scale Anti-Semitic movement in Israel but I don’t think Israel is any more immune to the other symptoms of Bad Crazy anymore than America, Germany or Canada.