Pennies dropped in pickle jars for an audience with the sky

[sovay]

Drive-by political complaint, mostly reconstituted from comments elsewhere.

I am really unhappy at the news of Netanyahu's reelection. I have wanted a space rock to hit him for at least ten years now, but since at this point I consider him not just a shande fur di goyim but an active engine of destruction like all the other far-right nationalists he admires, I'd have settled for kicking him out of power. I was hoping Gantz would pull enough votes to be able to construct a coalition that wasn't composed of hate crimes. I just wanted some country to pull back from the brink.

I am not sure I can express my unhappiness that the rising climate of global strongmen has obliged me to pay attention to Israeli politics where heretofore I had always been able to say honestly, it's not my country, I know jack. And now I have to know something and someone, somewhere, will adduce it as evidence of the vast obvious web of the Jewish conspiracy and usually here's where I say, come on, if we were running the world I like to think it'd be in better shape, but the Israeli election results are suggesting otherwise. And that means on top of everything else Netanyahu is damaging my ability to cope with bleak situations with black humor and that is a Jewish tragedy.

Comments

[moon_custafer]

(offers sympathetic hand-squeeze, if wished)

[sovay]

(offers sympathetic hand-squeeze, if wished)

Totally appreciated.

[gwynnega]

Co-signed.

[sovay]

Co-signed.

*hugs*

[cmcmck]

It's incredible how Bibi follows so much of his historian father's rather depressing view of history and uses it to create such awfulness while blaming it on European gentiles.

[sovay]

It's incredible how Bibi follows so much of his historian father's rather depressing view of history and uses it to create such awfulness while blaming it on European gentiles.

I do not actually know anything about Netanyahu's father's philosophy, but while I feel strongly that in the absence of a modern state of Israel, anti-Semites around the world would just find some other socially acceptable reason to hate Jews, I feel equally strongly that Netanyahu being the kind of far-right nationalist accelerant that he is is not helping.

[julian]

I say feh in an extremely vociferous way, because I thought there was a *chance*, at least. Grmp.

[sovay]

I say feh in an extremely vociferous way, because I thought there was a *chance*, at least.

Same! I am sick of near-misses in the wrong direction.

Grmp.

Amen.

[choco_frosh]

Well, France had a near-miss in the other direction. But yeah, in general...

Personally, I've viewed Israel as a rogue state since...I dunno, the Gaza War in 2008?* Before that, when the peace process stalled out? ...Anyway. So I was hoping that he'd get voted out, but mostly in the same way that I hope the Russians have another revolution and put Putin on trial for crimes against humanity. I wasn't really expecting it.

* I mean, Hamas isn't exactly the SCLC either, but who's got the fighter jets and international recognition as a state? right.

[sovay]

Well, France had a near-miss in the other direction.

That's true. I'd just like more of those, please.

So I was hoping that he'd get voted out, but mostly in the same way that I hope the Russians have another revolution and put Putin on trial for crimes against humanity. I wasn't really expecting it.

I feel Israel's democratic processes are not as totally fucked as Russia's, so I did think there was a chance!

[lokifan]

if we were running the world I like to think it'd be in better shape, but the Israeli election results are suggesting otherwise

*dark laugh*

It's so awful. It's infuriating that he KEEPS GETTING AWAY WITH IT - like, not just ("just") Palestinian protesters being shot with live bullets, but the corruption scandals!!

At least France escaped the nationalism? For now at any rate, I'm worried about what happens at their next election.

[sovay]

It's infuriating that he KEEPS GETTING AWAY WITH IT - like, not just ("just") Palestinian protesters being shot with live bullets, but the corruption scandals!!

I was hoping something would tip the balance. And I am not sure the election was a fair playing field, so it's possible that it would have. But the end result is still Netanyahu and I want him, like our government, like the far-right nationalist governments of Poland and Hungary, I'm sure I'm missing a lot of terrible people in this litany, gone.