More parallels between the political situation in Israel and the US
Israel and the US are very different, but there are parallels in their domestic situations at present. In Caroline Glick’s recent article on a speech Netanyahu made to Israel’s generals, I noticed some of these similarities, such as the fact that “protests are being organized by the top leaders of Israel’s security apparatus [the Mossad].”
In the case of Israel, which has a government on the right, the anti-government protests come mostly from the left. They are protesting Netanyahu’s attempt to limit what Glick calls the “now-limitless powers” of Israel’s Supreme Court and Attorney General, both of which – because of the non-democratic rules about how these entities are organized and new members chosen – are consistently and reliably and self-perpetuatingly on the left.
The similarities I see don’t include the main structure of the Israeli government and the US government, which are quite different, but the role of security forces in promoting the goals of the left. In Israel, those forces are even trying to topple Netanyahu’s government; in the US, they helped to create situations and propaganda that they hoped would get Trump removed from the presidency.
Another similarity involves the generals [emphasis mine]:
Judged by its substance, the apparent purpose of Netanyahu’s assault on the previous government’s weakness was twofold. First, he wanted to remind the public how we arrived at the current moment, where Hezbollah, Hamas and their Iranian bosses believe they can attack Israel with impunity. And second, Netanyahu wanted to implicitly remind the IDF and Mossad senior brass of their own role in facilitating the irresponsible and destructive gas deal.
In light of the leaked CIA report, and the leadership role retired generals have played in fomenting the anti-government insurrection over the past three months, Netanyahu’s decision to speak from the heart of the national security establishment in Tel Aviv rather than the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem was central to the message of national unity-of-purpose he sought to deliver to Israel’s enemies…
For years, Israel’s generals have stated publicly that the gravest threat facing Israel is the divisions within Israeli society. By repeatedly making these statements, and then standing foursquare with the left and pushing its policies from within the security apparatus, Israel’s military leadership wasn’t repairing those divisions. They were stoking and exacerbating them.
Apparently Israel’s military leaders and intelligence leaders are heavily aligned with the country’s left, while the majority of voters are on the right. And of course the Biden administration is also on the side of the left, including the left in Israel.
NOTE: Netanyahu has an autobiography out that has been highly recommended in The Claremont Review of Books.
These are also similarities between Bibi and Trump. I don’t know if anything like DEI or CRT are operating in Israel. I know there are black Israelis but it would involve the Palestinians, I should think. A black Israeli woman was my dental hygienist for a few years, She was Ethiopian, rescued by Israelis as a child. She was raised in Israel with her large Ethiopian family. We had some discussion of race over the years. Like most black immigrants I have met, she is quite critical of US blacks. She lives in Irvine, a very upscale Orange County suburb with her white husband. They visit her parents in Israel every year. She has told me of “Hate Stares” from black women when she is out with her husband
Looks like the days of generals like Moshe Dyan are long gone in Israel. Of course the likes of Patton probably don’t exist in the US Army today either.
remember when there was a kerfluffle about that outfit black cube, because weinstein, well the most interesting part was it was staffed by anti likud and anti bibi officers like meir dagan of the mossad,
One of the many curiosities regarding The French Revolution is that it created what we now think of as the ideological/political division of left and right, also being ultimately responsible (along with The Paris Commune) for creating the template used by subsequent radical revolutionary movements for the overthrowing of existing society and of traditional institutions and systems.
well bds is the closest eliminationist project against israel, it has strong tentacles in europe,
The French Revolution also topped off a lot of French science. Lavoisier, probably history’s greatest chemist, was Guillotined after the “judge” said Coffinhal: “La République n’a pas besoin de savants ni de chimistes; le cours de la justice ne peut être suspendu.” (“The Republic needs neither scholars nor chemists; the course of justice cannot be delayed.“)[33] The judge Coffinhal himself would be executed less than three months later, in the wake of the Thermidorian reaction.
Then
A year and a half after his execution, Lavoisier was completely exonerated by the French government. During the White Terror, his belongings were delivered to his widow. A brief note was included, reading “To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted”.
We are nearing that stage in our own history as science is ignored for dogma.
The Israeli left is dancing on a razor. Our generals and the CIA are all incompetent but we are not surrounded by crazy enemies.
Oh, for the times when military generals and corporate presidents were simple, evil men pursuing nationalism and capitalism at all costs and were unremittingly opposed to the left, which claimed it was looking out for the workers of the world.
Heigh-ho!
Halcyon days.
but we are not surrounded by crazy enemies.
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The crazy enemies are Al Fatah, Hamas, the Hezbollah, the Alawite regime in Syria, and the Islamist regime in Iran. The first three are not (never were) military formidable. Syria is in ruins. That leaves Iran.
I don’t get it. The Jews I have known were all smart, practical, and enterprising. After reading “The Haj” I thought most of the Jews in Israel were that way too.
Well, Israel is no longer a poor country. They have become quite successful, and even though their neighbors are a constant threat, they seem to have evolved into a society much like ours. Too much time on their hands, too much intellectualizing, and too many people who want to believe in the myth of how great socialism is. It’s the curse of success, I guess.