The problem is not RZP or Islamists. The problem is Netanyahu.

Submitted by David (Israel), Apr 26, 2021 at 05:01

People of Israel have voted increasingly clearly in 4 elections in 2 years: they want to get rid of Netanyahu, with his criminal charges and almost 14 years in the office that led to unprecedented personal and systemic corruption.

There is not a single person in Israel - left or right - who will not agree with the following mathematically correct assessment: if Netanyahu loosens his grip on the Likud party and resigns now, a majority (65/120) coalition of Zionist right-wing parties will spring out of the ashes in 48 hours. No need even for a coalition with center-left or center-right, let alone leftwing, Arab or Islamist parties.

Therefore Dr Pipes' witty exercise in Islamic political theology is irrelevant for the current Israeli politics. Netanyahu is the problem, nothing else.

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