If we are to believe that Israel's exclusivist and racially based 'democracy' is a democracy at all, then we are justified to also believe that Israel's new government is neither less nor more democratic than the previous governments.
are rightly angry, because they understand that the new government is likely to sow more violence and chaos.
But while Palestinians and their Arab allies have been largely consistent in recognizing extremism in the various Israeli governments, what excuse do the US and the West have in failing to recognize that the latest Netanyahu-led government is the most rational outcome of blindly supporting Israel throughout the years?Netanyahu as the creator of “the most right-wing government in Israeli history,” a sentiment that was repeated countless times in other western media outlets.
The same is likely to happen now. In fact, signs of the US’s willingness to accommodate whatever extremist politics Israel produces are already on display. In his, on December 30, welcoming the new Israeli government, Biden said nothing about the threat of Tel Aviv’s far-right politics to the Middle East region but, rather, the “challenges and threats” posed by the region to Israel. In other words, Ben-Gvir or no Ben-Gvir, unconditional support for Israel by the US will remain intact.
Yet, western officials, commentators and even pro-Israel Jewish leaders and organizations in the US are nowagainst the supposed danger facing Israel’s liberal democracy in the run-up to the formation of Netanyahu’s new government. The same story was repeated in 2016, when warnings over the rise of far-right extremism in Israel - following the Netanyahu-Lieberman pact - quickly disappeared, and eventually vanished. Instead of boycotting the new unity government, the US government, in September 2016, its largest military aid package to Israel, amounting to $38 billion.
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