The price of freedom is (still) eternal vigilance

Dark forces are rising in Israel. Sinister currents are gaining confidence. For years, they grew strong in the West Bank, shielded by the so-called “moderate settler leadership”, that pooh-poohed the chronic extremist violence. (They’re only a “few bad seeds”, we were reminded, time after time.) Now their influence is seeping over the Green Line into sovereign Israel.

Here are only the latest warning signs:

Last week, the Likud party elected a list of candidates for Knesset that is as close to the party’s virulently right-wing component, “Jewish Leadership” (“Manhigut Yehudit”), as it is to party leader, Binyamin Netanyahu.

Here’s just a sample of what “Jewish Leadership”, led by Moshe Feiglin, a Likud candidate for Knesset, stands for:
– Stage one: Israel’s annexation of the West Bank and the denial of all civil rights to its Palestinian population (while maintaining Palestinian “human rights”, we are told!).
– Stage two: State-sponsored “encouragement” of Palestinian emigration.
– Stage three: The eventual expulsion of all Palestinians from Israel/Palestine when this becomes “feasible”.

But “Jewish Leadership” is not the only manifestation of Jewish racism in Israel.
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