There was a time when I (naively) thought highly of Benjamin Netanyahu. When he first arrived on the scene, he came across as a stern, strong leader and defender of his country. But now, it seems, that façade is cracking and he is being revealed as just another strongman in the mold of what many probably think when they hear the word “strongman.”
Another right wing hardliner who appears to be protecting his own ass and attempting to undermine democratic principles in a country of people who value said principles very highly.
This doesn’t appear to be a matter of ignorance or misunderstanding on the part of Israeli citizens. They see what is going on elsewhere in the world. They’re aware of what’s happening in Ukraine and Hungary and Argentina and here in the U.S. And they’re not about to stand idly by and watch it happen in their own back yard.
Good for them, and anyone else with a nose for sniffing out authoritarianism when it rears its grotesque, ugly head.
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