Over the past few days (and really the past year and a half, but much more the past few days and weeks), the Right Wing has gotten very extreme, even the Likudniks and Haredim, and not just the IBGs and Smotritchs.
I am seeing a lot of talk about how the Left wont tell us what to do - ie we dont need to follow the laws that they set the country up with. They dont like something, the army isnt doing the right thing in their opinion, we can infiltrate the bases and get away with it, nobody can tell us what to do. Soldiers might be treating prisoners inappropriately, too bad, you cant investigate them. the army needs to be more brutal against our enemies. etc etc etc. It looks to me like right wing populism and fascism is significantly increasing, and is leading to anarchy, and will also eventually lead to further isolation. Countries will accuse Israel of more and more war crimes. The little bit the Hague already has done to Israel will be like childs play compared to what is coming if this continues and the Right rejects rule of law and human rights and international treaties and war crimes.Maybe they are right and this is the "Jewish way" and we need more of the Jewish way and less of the old democratic way, but I am not convinced.------------------------------------------------------
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