Was Israel really showing signs of fascism so long ago that he recognized it enough to tell a student in 2000? It was definitely not on my radar until much later. That may say more about me though.
they have been problematic through their whole history, but in 2000 the un security council demanded israel withdraw troops from the west bank. this led to the resignation of the president and the election of moshe katsav, a crucial step in the leikud gaining the near full control they have maintained over the past 25 years, as this election would ultimately thwart a criminal investigation into benjamin netenyahu’s corruption.
obviously i didn’t understand all of this at 8 years old (i guess i was in third grade) but this was highly divisive in my community, with many younger jews seeing this all as a good thing and Hezbollah as a looming ever present threat, and many older jews seeing reflections of the beer hall putsch, hitler’s show trial, and eventual political takeover of germany. it was hard for me to understand why everyone was both so scared all the time and how this generational divide had formed
Thank you for your response. I feel like nothing like the current actions come out of nowhere at a scale like we are seeing. I need to do more research to understand how the American story books of “we gave some ancestral land to a bunch of horribly mistreated people” turned into something so similar but the other direction.
Was Israel really showing signs of fascism so long ago that he recognized it enough to tell a student in 2000? It was definitely not on my radar until much later. That may say more about me though.
they have been problematic through their whole history, but in 2000 the un security council demanded israel withdraw troops from the west bank. this led to the resignation of the president and the election of moshe katsav, a crucial step in the leikud gaining the near full control they have maintained over the past 25 years, as this election would ultimately thwart a criminal investigation into benjamin netenyahu’s corruption.
obviously i didn’t understand all of this at 8 years old (i guess i was in third grade) but this was highly divisive in my community, with many younger jews seeing this all as a good thing and Hezbollah as a looming ever present threat, and many older jews seeing reflections of the beer hall putsch, hitler’s show trial, and eventual political takeover of germany. it was hard for me to understand why everyone was both so scared all the time and how this generational divide had formed
Thank you for your response. I feel like nothing like the current actions come out of nowhere at a scale like we are seeing. I need to do more research to understand how the American story books of “we gave some ancestral land to a bunch of horribly mistreated people” turned into something so similar but the other direction.