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64,000 children killed and counting just so the war criminal Natenyahu could stay in power. I really hope the illusion is gone, but as long as the US keeps supporting that government it's going to be very hard to take a proper moral stance on it for anyone else.

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> 64,000 children killed just so the war criminal Netanyahu could stay in power

No, this is an intentionally reductive framing. Palestinians are killed to realize the objectives of Zionism, which have shaped Israel since before its foundation. The entire country and its history are behind it, not just Netanyahu.

That's correct, but it's a chain of events and people who are invested in making it continue this way - Natenyahu knows that embracing hardcore Zionism is the way to stay in power so he continues doing it. But he wouldn't be able to do that without a huge amount of support across both the political spectrum and the population.

Anti-Zionist parties got ≈15% of the votes in the recent legislative election, so it's a bit reductive to claim that the entire country is behind it.

85% electoral victory is as close to unanimous as it ever gets.

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