Israel/Palestine

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts) Wed Oct 21, 2015, 01:28 PM Oct 2015

Land of Israel Caucus relaunches with bill streamlining building in settlements

The Land of Israel Caucus held its inaugural meeting in the 20th Knesset on Wednesday, drawing in members from the coalition and opposition, and support from ministers.

MK Yoav Kisch (Likud), who co-chairs the caucus with MK Bezalel Smotrich (Bayit Yehudi), began with a call to action to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman to "put your anger and egos aside and work together in a united, right-wing government."

"Yisrael Beytenu belongs in the coalition," he stated, adding that a stable, strong right-wing coalition can help the caucus obtain its goals.

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"Ideology is the basis of [the caucus]," he said. "Anyone who doesn't think we have a right to Judea and Samaria wouldn't be here." The Land of Israel Caucus in the 20th Knesset is made up of MKs from Likud, Kulanu, Bayit Yehudi, Yisrael Beytenu and UTJ.

MK Eli Cohen said most his party Kulanu's MKs support the caucus, because settlements are important to them.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Land-of-Israel-Caucus-relaunches-with-bill-streamlining-building-in-settlements-428649

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Land of Israel Caucus relaunches with bill streamlining building in settlements (Original Post) geek tragedy Oct 2015 OP

What is with this obsession with the settlements? oberliner Oct 2015 #1

this is what happens when you mix religion and government geek tragedy Oct 2015 #2

Netanyahu is not religious oberliner Oct 2015 #3

no, he is a tribalist/nationalist demagogue similar to Slobo Milosevic geek tragedy Oct 2015 #4

"the mindset that a conquered enemy is to be ruled and dominated, not freed." oberliner Oct 2015 #5

the US avoided it in Germany and Japan nt geek tragedy Oct 2015 #6

We vaporized hundreds of thousands of Japanese and got their unconditional surrender oberliner Oct 2015 #7

Scary. n/t Little Tich Oct 2015 #8

It seems revisionist Zionism has had a rebirth in Israel azurnoir Oct 2015 #9

oberliner

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1. What is with this obsession with the settlements?

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Wed Oct 21, 2015, 04:17 PM

Oct 2015

Right wingers are just completely baffling to me.

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

2. this is what happens when you mix religion and government

Reply to oberliner (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 21, 2015, 04:24 PM

Oct 2015

These are all single-state apartheid advocates.

Because they think that's what their religion says should happen.

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

3. Netanyahu is not religious

Reply to geek tragedy (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 21, 2015, 04:29 PM

Oct 2015

He is secular.

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

4. no, he is a tribalist/nationalist demagogue similar to Slobo Milosevic

Reply to oberliner (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 21, 2015, 04:33 PM

Oct 2015

or Putin.

But there's a great deal of philosophical overlap between him and his religious allies (many of whom are in Likud). Certainly the mindset that a conquered enemy is to be ruled and dominated, not freed.