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A new survey showing that 82 percent of Jewish Israelis support the expulsion of Gazans was met with disbelief among those who stubbornly believe that the extremists are outliers. But these trends are as consistent as they are shocking.
In 2014, when Jewish Israelis kidnapped and immolated Mohammed Abu Khdeir, a Palestinian teenager from East Jerusalem, many Israelis were shocked and ashamed. The next year, Jewish Israelis torched a home in the Palestinian village of Duma, burning a father, mother and baby to death in their sleep; a surviving child was horribly burned. By then, few were surprised.
I recommended reading Balfour and Churchill. They didn’t do it because they felt bad about the Holocaust. They did it because they hated Jews and Palestinians and wanted to get Jews out of Europe.
Even Hertzel said that antisemites would be the greatest allies of the Zionist movement. He was right.