A call by defeated Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for his supporters to obstruct the seating of a new coalition government may be the trigger for his opponents to tell the truth about the roots of his party in the fascist movements of the 1930s. Netanyahu’s Likud is the heir of the Greater Israel movement of Vladimir Jabotinsky, whose appeal to Adolph Hitler for support led his opponent, David Ben Gurion, to refer to him as “Vladimir Hitler.” Netanyahu’s father, Ben Zion Netanyahu, was the American secretary of Jabotinsky’s party.
As part of the strategy to claim territory on the West Bank which presently has a Palestinian majority as belonging to Israel, Netanyahu as Prime Minister has encouraged and funded Jewish settlements there. The seizing of land, and the terrorizing of Palestinians by armed settlers have escalated in the recent period, and triggered a Palestinian response, which Netanyahu used to justify deploying Israel’s military to put down the recent “uprising.”
In response to Netanyahu’s incitement against the seating of a new coalition government to replace him, journalist Juan Cole wrote, “Netanyahu had called on squatters on Palestinian land in the West Bank to surround and besiege the homes of some Change coalition members of parliament on the Right, to pressure them into defecting to Netanyahu. He is using the squatters, who are armed and often terrorize indigenous Palestinians and steal their property, as a sort of Mussolini-style Black Shirt paramilitary. Netanyahu’s Likud Party was influenced by the far right nationalist tendencies of European politics in the first half of the twentieth century.”
Here is a link to Cole’s article:
Capitol Insurrection in Jerusalem? Netanyahu Calls New Government a “Fraud,” Calls for Massive Squatter Protests https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/69787-capitol-insurrection-in-jerusalem-netanyahu-calls-new-government-a-qfraudq-calls-for-massive-squatter-protests
