Analysis of Netanyahu and Zionism

Why do you think that is the key demonization here,

that it's somehow all Netanyahu's fault?

How does that psychologically work?

Well, Netanyahu is a fairly despicable figure,

no matter how you look at him.

He's one of the most dishonest,

brutal, hypocritical politicians ever to tread the surface of the earth.

And that's saying a lot.

But he is not by himself the

cause or the source of what's going on.

What's actually going on is the logical and inevitable and foredoomed

expression of the Zionist movement,

which from the very beginning has dehumanized the Palestinians

and has always

arrogated to itself the right to displace and oppress

and dismiss and kill as many as possible

or as necessary of a Palestinian population.

So Netanyahu is nothing new.

He's simply the most egregious expression of the Zionist dynamic.

But that has been there all along.

And whether you look at previous terrorist prime ministers like Shamir or Begin,

or whether you look at war criminals like Ben-Gurion,

who literally fomented the displacement and killing large numbers of Palestinians,

it's a logic that is becoming more and more toxic,

but very consistent to itself.

So the figure of Netanyahu is not that important.

It's the system that matters.

And if you look at the current Israeli election,

none of the opposition parties even dare speak about a Palestinian state anymore.

That's just off the plate so that,

you know, we talk about the slogan from the river to the sea,

but that is the Zionist ethic,

that from the river to the sea, there's no non-Jewish entity.

Netanyahu didn't create that.

He simply embodies it.