{"id":203404,"date":"2020-03-04T20:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T20:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203404"},"modified":"2020-03-08T07:52:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T07:52:01","slug":"why-does-netanyahu-keep-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203404","title":{"rendered":"Why does Netanyahu keep winning?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk March 4, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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A few days ahead of the previous Israeli election, Haaretz\u2019s lead writer Anshel Pfeffer, <\/a>\u00a0authored a spectacular analysis of\u00a0Israel\u2019s current political deadlock: Israelis are going to the polls to decide whether they are \u2018Jews\u2019 or \u2018Israelis.\u2019<\/h5>\n
The first to point out the political\u00a0 rivalry between \u2018the Jew\u2019and \u2018the Israeli\u2019 was\u00a0 Shimon Peres who, after his narrow 1996 defeat,\u00a0 lamented in a Haaretz interview that \u201cthe Israelis lost the election.\u201d When Peres asked who won, he answered, \u201cThe Jews won.\u201d Peres, who was born in Poland, saw himself as the \u2018Israeli\u2019 candidate, Netanyahu, who was born in Israel and served as a commander in the IDF\u2019s top unit, was in Peres\u2019 eyes, the political choice of the \u2018Jews.\u2019\u00a0 Peres\u2019s observation was spot on.\u00a0 Politically astute and well imbued in early Zionist thought, Peres identified the emerging Identitarian conflict that was destined to break up Israeli society.<\/h5>\n
Pfeffer pointed out that in the 1990s Netanyahu was influenced by his American campaign guru, Arthur Finkelstein, to accept that \u201cJewishness\u201d is the primary unifier for Israelis. This clearly applies to religious Jews but it is also true of those who regard themselves as secular and\/or leftist.<\/h5>\n
While early Zionism can be understood as an uncompromising attempt to divorce the Jews from Jewishness, the ghetto and tribalism to make them \u201cpeople like all other people,\u201d the Israeli Right\/Religious political call is openly driven by a nostalgic adherence to the myths of the shtetl<\/em> and its walls, segregation and every other aspect of Jewish tribalism, chauvinism included. As bizarre as it may sound, Netanyahu\u2019s transformation of Israel into a Jewish ghetto surrounded by walls and\u00a0defined by a \u2018Jewish National Bill\u2019\u00a0 makes him, by early Zionist standards, into an ardent anti Zionist.<\/h5>\n
According to Pfeffer,\u00a0 when Netanyahu returned to power in 2009 and formed a right-wing\/ religious coalition,\u00a0 \u201cthe Jews prevailed\u201d and have done so ever since.<\/h5>\n
On Monday, Netanyahu won a significant political and personal victory. He earned the votes of the people despite his complicated legal situation and some would even say, because of his legal complications. In this rivalry between the \u2018Israeli\u2019 and the \u2018Jew,\u2019 the \u2018Israeli\u2019 is beaten time after time and the \u2018Jew\u2019 consistently\u00a0prevails.<\/h5>\n
The \u2018Jews,\u2019 as Shimon Peres referred to them,\u00a0 see in Netanyahu a clear path towards a true spiritual homecoming. Being Likudnics can be realised as a true celebration of who and what they truly are. The \u2018Israelis,\u2019 on the other hand, were hoping for Gantz and Kachol Lavan to revive the early Zionist promise to be emancipated from what they are and to finally become people like all other Goyim whether this means nationalist patriots or cosmopolitan pacifist.<\/h5>\n
The demography of the \u2018Jewish\u2019\u00a0 camp and its \u2018Israeli\u2019 rival is pretty much separated.\u00a0 Netanyahu is largely supported by Mizrahi Jews and the Israeli Religious sectors (the\u00a0orthodox and settlers). Gantz and Kachol Lavan have managed to ignite the imagination of the old elites: the Ashkenazi and educated Israelis. The \u2018Jews,\u2019 as Peres referred to them, love Bibi because he manipulates the Goyim. He reduced America into an Israeli colony and practically a \u2018side in the conflict\u2019 (as opposed to an impartial negotiator). \u00a0They are proud of their Bibi and his ability to puppeteer world leaders. He bonds with the Diaspora and the Lobby, he also manages to keep American taxpayers\u2019 dollars flowing.\u00a0Bibi, as far as they can tell, is the best thing that happened in modern Jewish history.<\/h5>\n
The \u2018Israelis\u2019 vote Kachol Lavan because they don\u2019t like Netanyahu, they can\u2019t stand the idea that his voters and they are considered \u2018one people.\u2019 The \u2018Israeli\u2019 shares little with the religious sectors, the settlers and even less with the \u2018Jews\u2019 who live in the periphery. \u00a0 The \u2018Israeli\u2019 would like Netanyahu to be locked up behind bars and subliminally hope that his voters will evaporate into thin air.\u00a0 Kachol Lavan is not a centre party. Its vision of the conflict is actually to the right of the Likud party and its vision of social matters is vague to non-existent.\u00a0 It is more likely that its leaders, veteran IDF Generals, evoke amongst the \u2018Israelis\u2019 nostalgic memories of 1967: an Ashkenazi ruled state, committed to the\u00a0Zionist mantra of the rejection of Jewishness.<\/h5>\n
But the \u2018Israeli\u2019 was defeated again on Monday.\u00a0 Nostalgia for the most heroic moment in Israeli history didn\u2019t seem to mature into the necessary revolution and Gantz may have finished his political role. It is likely that Kachol Lavan will disintegrate into its elements in the coming weeks.<\/h5>\n
The phantasy of becoming \u2018people like all other people\u2019 has collapsed for two obvious reasons: 1. no other people want to be like all other people.\u00a0 2. The \u2018Israeli\u2019 is far more Jewish than he or she is willing to admit.<\/h5>\n
Arthur Finkelstein figured it out in the 1990s and Netanyahu continues to follow his campaign mentor, refining his political agenda in line with Judeo-centrism. In the state that calls itself the \u2018Jewish State,\u2019 the \u2018Israeli\u2019 is gradually becoming\u00a0rare, he has been supplanted by \u2018the Jew.\u2019<\/h5>\n
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In the state that calls itself the \u2018Jewish State,\u2019 the \u2018Israeli\u2019 is gradually becoming rare, he has been supplanted by \u2018the Jew.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203408,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203404\/revisions\/203408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}