Is Netanyahu just a bad apple, or is Israeli society rotten to the core? Liberals love to blame Netanyahu for everything wrong with Israel, as if removing one man would fix decades of settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide. But poll after poll shows that Israeli society overwhelmingly supports his most destructive policies: the war on Iran, the genocide in Gaza, the bombing of Lebanon, and the annexation of more Palestinian land.
This video breaks down why Netanyahu isn’t the disease, he’s the symptom. From the founding of the state through the Nakba to today, Israel has required the active participation of its citizens in a system of military occupation, racial supremacy, and normalized violence against Palestinians. Blaming Netanyahu lets the system off the hook and shields politicians from ever having to confront the real question: can a settler colonial state be reformed? Or is the problem Israel itself?
not trump either. the problem is the u s a
the problem is the usa…
i used to equate this settler colonial state with another named south africa and always presumed that they would eventually wake up from their fevered racist dream like south africa has started to do; but now i have to wonder if it’s ever going to happen at all.
It took unified international pressure to force SA out of apartheid. If they had a giant bully watching over them who smashed everyone’s economy that looked at it funny, South Africa would still be an apartheid state id wager
