~ Never Again ~
Netanyahu is, in my opinion, almost single handily destroying the goodwill that exists in the world toward Israel and the Israelis. The Israeli society, its conscience and its legacy now appears to be largely under control of their government's propaganda and the influence of what appears to be a mad man.
Over 60% apparently supporting the war and the ground invasion. Overall support for the continued occupation, appears high, while support for peace seems absent or poorly represented, at best. However, their lost humanity is very likely to be something they are going to miss as they sit back and watch Netanyahu turn Israelis into barbarians and Israel into the next pariah state.
The tragic history of the Jews has meant that, among rational people, there has always been a great measure of sympathy and a great measure of goodwill directed towards them. For reasons that seem to verge on the psychopathic, Netanyahu is now flushing every bit of both down the toilet.
Once a national leader becomes a war criminal there is no easy way back to respectability, especially when the war criminal was democratically elected. Israel is at a cross road. The stain of Netanyahu will shortly be passed to the people of Israel and it is a stain that will take years or decades to fade. Israel is running out of time and chances; they need to, they have to, they must retake their country, retake their nation, but NOT from the Palestinians, instead they need to retake it from the fascist within.
The world is watching, and it will not forget.
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