Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Is This True?

Dana Milbank suggests that Netanyahu and the Likud Party's aggressive alliance with conservative Americans will undermine bipartisan support for Israel.  Israel has been a "bad actor" in the West Bank and Gaza for years and Netanyahu's current plan to strip more rights from Israeli Arabs while doubling down on illegal settlements should have caused the rupture already.  But every time someone pokes their head up to suggest that Israel is behaving badly, they are smacked down.

I'm not optimistic.

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