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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
This is sad. within the several paragraphs of what you post the writer equates Israel with a "Trumpish government" and says both that Israel is a democracy and it is not, and he seems to be speaking to someone, but it isn't clear who. And it speaks of the banned rabble rousers as if they're well-intentioned professors. I thought you once tried cases, why would you have such disregard for simple intellectual integrity?
At least i acknowledge my source is wild-eyed, still I'm sure there are some facts mixed into both.
So you win!
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I am a lot less concerned with whether Israel elects assholes to run its government than I am with whether we do, because lots of countries elect assholes and I don't live there. Putin may be the world's largest asshole at the moment, but, luckily, Russia is a second rate economy and has limited importance in my world.
But Bibi is an asshole, and very much an asshole of a Trumpian ilk, and some of the Israeli right are even worse. The big difference between them is that Bibi is both smarter and more knowledgeable than Trump, and so his government is more functional on a day to day level.
Bottom line, though, as an Israeli friend of mine recently put it, "we both have our meshuganahs, but you're going to get rid of yours before we do."
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