Israel’s New Right Wants Blood in the Streets
The wheeling-dealing of the right’s leaders in recent years has produced a new layer of opinion that scorns balanced consideration. The meteoric rise of people like Miri Regev and Oren Hazan reflects the unapologetic, new right. Protest tents belong to the ‘90s. Nowadays they want blood in the streets and “Death to the Arabs” in Zion Square.
In the right wing of 2015, the Temple Mount has taken the place of Judea, Samaria and Gaza as the reason for the struggle. The vast majority of the right realizes that the settlements aren’t going anywhere. Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank is well rooted. The slogan “build a new settlement” even puts settler leader Ze’ev “Zambish” Hever to sleep. What remains is a symbol of capitulation to the Arabs on the Temple Mount.
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The latest round of violence was the first time since Netanyahu was elected that his standing on the right has been fractured. He survived the settlement freeze, attacks by terrorists running people over with their cars, and last year’s Gaza war, but his great success in the March election whetted his voters’ appetite.
In the U.S. Republican Party, the voters don’t understand why the congressional majority doesn’t throw all of Obama’s initiatives into the bin. Similarly, the Israeli right doesn’t understand why despite the great victory Netanyahu doesn’t curb the powers of the High Court of Justice, stymie funding for anti-occupation groups B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence, release the restraints on Israeli army snipers and expel the “leaders of the terrorists” to Jordan and Syria.
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Hamas wants a war, the more extreme elements of Israel's coalition want a war.
And the only two stopping them right now are a pair of cowards, Netanyahu and Abbas.
