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Pennies dropped in pickle jars for an audience with the sky
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.
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.
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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.