| You are oversimplifying Israeli politics. Concepts like "left" and "right" do not apply fully there as there are at least three fundamental splits that are somewhat independent: appeasement with the Palestinians vs hawkish politics, economic right/left, religion vs secularism. And what wins is a coalition, not a single party, so the bag is even more mixed, not to mention that parties have internal currents too From 2019 we had 5 elections: - 2 elections with no winner and no coalition forming - 1 election that brought constitutional changes and a government of center-right (towards Palestinians), center-left (economically) mixed religious-secular - 1 election that was also center-right (Palestinians) but included an Arab party too, mixed bag (economically) more secular than religious - the last election that appears to be full right (Palestinians), mixed right/left (economically), substantially pro-religion I can agree that the policy towards the Palestinians is somewhat fixed on the center-right but there are very clear reasons for that. Neither ignoring the Palestinian problem, as attempted in the '70s and '80s nor appeasing them, as was done in the '90s and '00s, proved to be less than disastrous solutions. But economically you will find a lot of leftist ideas even in "rightist" parties, out in the open or somewhat overt (allowances for the religious) and the secular/religious split is becoming a strong force of polarization too |
Yes and that's what my original answer meant.
We can say the same thing about Iran, but we don't because it's easier to make the enemy look 2D, 100% evil, no complexity, only sins, mistakes and violence. We also say stpid shit like: democracy will fix everything, knowing very well it won't it would simply allow us to negotiate a way into their "market".
Rethotical propagandistic tactic don't work anymore in 2022 and I believe we should be honest to ourselves if we wanna talk about complex socio political topics.
Us 100% good vs Them 100% bad is not the way, IMO.