Re: Iran saves Netanyahu, allows world to sympathise with Israel again

“if there was some IQ behind any statement you made”

Smug trolling looks especially bad when you are epically wrong about something. A little bit about Ben Gvir, the man that Netanyuhu saw fit to be a minister in his government. His CV is more like something one would expect from Taliban then what one associates with secular democratic governrment.

“Ben-Gvir convicted of inciting to racism”
jpost (DOT) .com/Israel/Ben-Gvir-convicted-of-inciting-to-racism

“Ben Gvir hails racist Kahane”
timesofisrael (DOT) com/ben-gvir-pays-tribute-to-racist-kahane-ultimately-he-was-about-love-of-israel/

“Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister of Chaos”
newyorker (DOT) com/magazine/2023/02/27/itamar-ben-gvir-israels-minister-of-chaos

“A far-right member of the Knesset[11] and a settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Ben Gvir has faced criminal charges of hate speech against Arabs and was known to have a portrait in his living room of Israeli-American mass murderer and Jewish extremist Baruch Goldstein, who massacred 29 Palestinian Muslim worshipers and wounded 125 others in Hebron, in the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre. He removed the portrait after he entered politics.[4] He was also previously convicted of supporting Kach, classified by Israel as a terrorist group, which espoused Kahanism, an anti-Arab and religious Zionist ideology.[12]”

“In the 1990s, he was active in protests against the Oslo Accords. In 1995, Ben-Gvir came to public attention for the first time, when he appeared on television brandishing a Cadillac hood ornament that had been stolen from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s car, and declared: “We got to his car, and we’ll get to him too.” Several weeks later, Rabin was assassinated by right-wing extremist Yigal Amir.[14][24]”
“wikipedia (DOT) org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir”

etc..

And for some bonus trivia… a little bit on Ben Gvir’s idol Meir Kahane. His Jewish Defense League was recognized as a terrorist organization by the US and his Kach party was banned from the Knesset for racism.

“Kahane argued that there was a glory in Jewish destiny, which came through the observance of the Torah and halakha (Jewish law). He observed, “Democracy and Judaism are not the same thing.”[78] Kahane was of the view a Jewish state and a Western democracy were incompatible, since Western democracy is religion-blind, and a Jewish state is religion-oriented by its very name”
en.wikipedia (dot) org/wiki/Meir_Kahane

“you cannot have Zionism and democracy at the same … Western democracy has to be ruled out. For me, that’s cut and dried: There’s no question of setting up democracy in Israel, because democracy means equal rights for all, irrespective of racial or religious origins” – Meir Kahane

“Really, I don’t think that we can sit back and watch Arabs throwing rocks at buses whenever they feel like it. They must understand that a bomb thrown at a Jewish bus is going to mean a bomb thrown at an Arab bus.” – Meir Kahane

en.wikipedia (dot) org/wiki/Meir_Kahane

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