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As an American/Israeli, there's something about MAGA world's rage and willingness to employ deadly violence to achieve political ends that reminds me of the period of in incitement before Rabin's murder. MAGA and the Israeli settler right of that time have much in common. They..
..both are absolutely certain that they're doing God's work while their political opponents are godless heathens who openly flaut God's will. In America it's abortion and in Israel it was opposition to ceding any part of the Land of Israel, but in both cases the certainty that..
..they know exactly what God wants and that any deviation from it is entirely illegitimate, even if legally authorized by a democratically elected government. The hatred of the media and the willingness to employ violence to achieve political goals are scarily familiar to me.
Yitzhak Rabin z"l, Israel's first sabra prime minister and hero of the Six Day War was murdered by an assassin who came to believe that both his community and his God would sanctify his act and the bullets he fired at Rabin changed the course of history. As bad as last week's
..attack on the Capito and attempted coup was, it failed and the people who believe that the ends justify the may interpret that failure to mean that even more radical and much more violent action is needed to keep Trump in office and if so, what we saw last week may eventually..
..appear to us as child's play compared to what comes next.
It may seem a bit presumptuous, but I'm going to tag a few journalists and academics who have much greater ability to get the word out than I do because, if the people who spent years shouting Blue Lives Matter are...
It may seem a bit presumptuous, but I'm going to tag a few journalists and academics who have much greater ability to get the word out than I do because, if the people who spent years shouting Blue Lives Matter are...
..ok with beating a police officer to death, who knows what they may do next.
Please start at the top of the thread - I hope I'm overreacting.
@tcwittes
@jaketapper
@benjaminwittes
@davidfrum
@JeffreyGoldberg
@BillKristol
Please start at the top of the thread - I hope I'm overreacting.
@tcwittes
@jaketapper
@benjaminwittes
@davidfrum
@JeffreyGoldberg
@BillKristol
BTW - I wish Twitter had an edit feature. Apologies for the spelling errors, incomplete sentences, missed words, and typos.
