Benjamin Netanyahu and his partners in the Israeli government, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich among others, did not descend from Mars. They are the product of the same earthly Zionist ideology. By blaming Netanyahu et al., the Zionist-managed Western media and liberals in the US and Europe want you to believe that there is a moral daylight between the politics of the Israeli governing coalition and the state they lead.

The European Union is a study in cognitive dissonance. It threatens Netanyahu with arrest. It bans Ben Gvir and Smotrich from entering European soil. Yet it continues to uphold preferential trade relations with Israel itself. It sanctions individual Israeli leaders but shields and sustains the state apparatus and political system that empowers them.

The EU cannot have it both ways, distancing itself morally from individual leaders while continuing to finance, normalise, and legitimise the very state structure that empowers them.

The EU cannot have it both ways, distancing itself morally from individual leaders while continuing to finance, normalise, and legitimise the very state structure that empowers them.

Adolf Hitler could not have carried out his crimes without a German political system that enabled and emboldened him. It was not only Hitler or the Nazi Party who were held accountable for Nazi crimes; it was Germany. South African apartheid could not have endured as long as it did without the broad complicity of privileged white society.

Likewise, the rise of Netanyahu’s coalition is a legacy of Israel’s privileged Zionist establishment and Israeli Jewish society at large. Poll after poll shows that while many Israeli Jews do not support Netanyahu personally, two-thirds still approve  his starvation policies in Gaza.

Israelis want to change the actor, but not the play. For instance, only 20 percent of Jewish Israelis support the right for Palestinians to have their own state, while 42 percent support the expansion of........

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