“… [The] Israeli government … is not an ordinary government.
“Benjamin Netanyahu … brought into the government … the Israeli equivalent of neo-Nazis …
“… Itamar Ben-Gvir [and] Bezalel Smotrich: these are not ordinary Israeli politicians.
“Ben-Gvir is a convicted racialist and inciter and terrorist …
“… [These] flamethrowers … openly talk about destroying Gaza … ethnically cleansing the Palestinians …
“[They] are themselves illegal settlers in the West Bank on Palestinian private property that they have stolen, and [they] encourage other people to engage in this theft [and] to attack ordinary everyday Palestinians …
“Ben-Gvir gave out guns in large numbers … in hopes of encouraging this kind of violence …
“… [They] have set the rules of engagement so that they will accept 15 to 20 innocent non-combatant lives being taken for every Hamas [figure] that they’re able to kill …
“… 70% of the deaths have been children and women …
“… [Joe Biden’s] aides are leaking to the press that he sees these civilian deaths every day.
“And [Biden] says, ‘okay’ …”
Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
Prof. Juan Cole on Israeli neo-Nazis
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“… [The] Israeli government … is not an ordinary government.
“Benjamin Netanyahu … brought into the government … the Israeli equivalent of neo-Nazis …
“… Itamar Ben-Gvir [and] Bezalel Smotrich: these are not ordinary Israeli politicians.
“Ben-Gvir is a convicted racialist and inciter and terrorist …
“… [These] flamethrowers … openly talk about destroying Gaza … ethnically cleansing the Palestinians …
“[They] are themselves illegal settlers in the West Bank on Palestinian private property that they have stolen, and [they] encourage other people to engage in this theft [and] to attack ordinary everyday Palestinians …
“Ben-Gvir gave out guns in large numbers … in hopes of encouraging this kind of violence …
“… [They] have set the rules of engagement so that they will accept 15 to 20 innocent non-combatant lives being taken for every Hamas [figure] that they’re able to kill …
“… 70% of the deaths have been children and women …
“… [Joe Biden’s] aides are leaking to the press that he sees these civilian deaths every day.
“And [Biden] says, ‘okay’ …”
Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/israel-campus-protests.html