I hate Bibi so much that I go to his user page and downvote all his posts and comments.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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He isn't genociding hard enough for the population.
Is this normal for Israel? I'm under the impression that in wartime or similar, people rally under the current government. At least that's what seems to be happening in the US (see 9/11 etc).
People of Israel seem to blame him for the October 7 attack as well as failing to get hostages out of Gaza. The approval rate is not because people suddenly care about Palestinians. If anything, they seem to want an even more aggressive person in charge.
That is because his whole schtik was a strong Israel defense. Now a massive defense failure, orders of magnitude worse than anything many Israelis have seen before in their lifetimes has happened. And it is Nathanyahus head on the proverbial chopping block for this. Because that is his whole platform, nothing even remotely close to this was supposed to ever happen under him.
Not normal, indeed Israeli Jews tens to show forgiveness to the people in power during Gaza bombardments. An old trick is to drop some bombs on Gazans before elections in order to get the polls up, used both by Netanyahu and his current opposition when they had a one-year government.
The thing is, in addition to what commenters below me said which are completely right, our current public infrastructure is in an ongoing privatization process since the US meddling in 1985. They were not able to handle the flood of Israelis fleeing from border-adjacent areas, and they left citizens to pick up this task by themselves. They couldn't find the money to house and feed them, let alone handle the developing first- and second-hand trauma. It has to do both with privatization and corrupt inadequate nominations (thoroughly covered by the media in the last year).
Can you elab on the 1985 meddling?
It's called the "Israel Economic Stabilization Plan". It's a series of blitz privatizations done to handle inflation. The meddling part came into play at the offices of the Israeli ministry of finance – there were loads of Friedman-inspired economists sent by the US to participate in the meetings they held regarding the soaring inflation. The US also offered financial support (I think like a billion dollars or smth) conditioned by these privatizations.
This is of course nothing like US meddling with brown people - there was no blood spilled (excluding people dying of poverty 🥸), but meddling it was nontheless.
Unfortunately the only lefty source I can point to regarding the topic is in Hebrew. The meddling is not mentioned on any English source I found (or Hebrew for that matter). This move is actually regarded as ingenious among economists :) Just for shits and giggles, here's the Hebrew source, idk, for lurkers
I'm going to no care about the format and focus on the message. I firmly believe, naive as i am, that people are inherently good. So i wouldn't be that surprised that some jerusaelans (?) would question their leader's motive and goals. But i am not THIS naive. They are not the majority... Yet
Seeing as how he's been sacrificing his own people to the mantle of staying in power and he wasn't all that popular to begin with, it's not at all surprising that even the most vile of Zionists think he's doing a shit job. They want a strong leader which can effectively shut down any resistance to their genocide, not a weak one whose dogshit management is damaging their global reputation and making them look like the settler colonial nazis that they are. And yes you're right that people are inherently good, but settlers aren't people, they're monsters.