JVL Introduction
Chris Hedges is in no doubt that the new government in Israel represents a seismic change.
It is one thing to argue that the logic of a liberal “Jewish and democratic” Zionist state tends towards inequality, oppression, supremacy.
It is another to recognise that that moment of Zionism has run its course.
What has happened is not more of the same, but much worse. It is a step change, says Chris Hedges, on the way to a “despotic theocracy”.
He pulls no punches when he says that “Ben-Gvir and Smotrich represent the dregs of Israeli society, one that promotes ‘Jewish identity’ and ‘Jewish nationalism’ in a Zionist version of fascism’s call for blood and soil.
It is these Jewish fascists who are now calling the tune.
And we can expect the war against the Jewish “traitors within” to go hand in hand with increased violence and death meted out to Palestinians as a matter of daily routine…