Netanyahu Pledges to Annex Israeli Settlements in the West Bank...

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Many of us have long thought that Likudism will ultimately destroy Israel.

Looks like Bibi is doing his best to prove us correct.

Likudism might not destroy Israel as an independent state or as a Jewish state but it's certainly going to destroy Israel as a democracy if it continues for long enough. Whoever it was who originally said that if Israel wanted to be Jewish, democratic, and in control of the West Bank then it could choose any two out of three was absolutely right.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

For whatever it’s worth, I have a close friend who’s a (non-Jewish) “leftist internationalist” who at this point privately supports some form of annexation as the least bad of a bad set of options (and this is someone who hates the idea of annexation). She does in fact hate Bibi for his ethical problems and socioeconomic policies rather than “because he’s a nationalist” like Famous Mortimer was saying in that other thread.

I don’t really agree with this friend’s perspective on this, but people with idiosyncratic views on Israel do still exist, despite the best efforts of Blue Tribe Westerners and Red Tribe Westerners alike to make it a partisan and sectarian shibboleth.