Dana El-Kurd
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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And this is a wider pattern in Israeli politics that I don't know how well understood it is, maybe a bit more now than before.
Because even before the ongoing war in Iran started, Naftali Bennett, who was the prime minister of Israel and reportedly wants to replace Netanyahu in the upcoming elections, said that Turkey is the next Iran.
Virtually any Israeli paper, center and further to the right, which is most of them, you read them, there is someone who has at some point in this, I'm not talking just a random person, I'm talking like a high ranking politician and military official, at some point described like Turkey as being next.
And what needs to be understood with all of this is not, oh, can they actually do this or whatnot?
Because maybe they can't.
I don't know.
I hope we never find out.
But it's that they can't stop.
It's becoming an end in itself.
There has to be an enemy.
There has to be a constant creation almost of an external enemy in Israeli political discourse today because nothing else works anymore.
Israeli politics and this is a shift in Israeli politics in the past I'm going to say I don't know two or three decades I don't know how one would start counting that shift and it does go back to the Palestinian question and in the sense of like them not wanting to address it at all not even pretending that they're going to because they've been pretending you know obviously not actually doing it but even pretending that you know they were doing so the Oslo Accord and whatnot
There isn't even that.
I think it's useful to understand their attitude towards Lebanon as at least in part a continuation of that attitude towards Palestinians.
So in many ways, like the Palestinian question itself remains the one that they want to avoid at all costs.
And whatever that means, bombing Iran, bombing Lebanon, bombing other countries later, I don't know, obviously bombing Syria, they've already done that, you know, and so on and so forth.
genocide as a tool of conflict management yeah yeah it's just domination i guess for its own sake because they can't imagine any kind of other alternative and they haven't had a need to do so because you know as you said they've gotten away with a live stream genocide for over two years now why would they think differently about about lebanon a very poor country that you know doesn't have that many resources and whatnot which isn't to say that they will succeed and they will win and and so on but this is what they've been saying this is their intention
It's a political vision that does not see the other as human, as having agency, as deserving anything, really.
It's not like they have an opposing side or an opponent that they want to defeat, but ultimately have some kind of settlement and move beyond that or whatnot.
There is no long-term plan, is what I'm trying to say, I guess.
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