This Independence Day, Israel Has Split Into Two Incompatible Jewish States

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2. I see a lot of similarities between Israel and the US.

We are both divided countries, with one political party aiming for authoritarian government and the other tacking into the wind to address real issues like climate warming. Israel has ignored their major issue for decades and allowed the divisions of the right wing to gain the upper hand. We are in danger of doing the same thing if you can believe polls.

ISRARL’s right-wing settlers are our Proud Boys, Patriot Front, Boogaloo Boys, etc. They are violent, armed, and ready to kill because they see no one else having any rights. In the case of the Israeli settlers, they have killed many Palestinians in the West Bank.

We have a past leader who is like Netanyahu in his pursuit of vengeance against others. Netanyahu has used his power to try to dismantle the power of the Israeli Courts. Trump used his power to appoint judges by contaminating the federal judiciary with right-wing religious judges willing to help him and push Republican policies, and this includes his appointments to the Supreme Court. The difference here is that the Israeli Supreme Court has so far fought off Netanyahu’s attempts to weaken it, while our Supreme Court is destroying itself from the inside.

I think both countries are facing a reckoning. Israel because it has garnered the world’s anger at its continued treatment of Palestinians and refusal to negotiate for a separate state, and the US because another Trump term means the end of democracy as we know it. It also means the alienation of our traditional allies, the decimation of NATO, and the embrace of our enemies. We can only hope that the forces of evil do not prevail in either country.