Tracing Israel’s drift so far right

Was it extreme right-wing politics that drove Israel to its current dilemma, condemned to perpetual subjugation of its Arab population under the leadership of a political thug like Benjamin Netanyahu? Or was it the need to keep the Arabs down that drove Israelis so far right?
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is playing for a deadlock and a fifth election now, but he may end up out of office and in jail instead, writes columnist Gwynne Dyer.
LONDON, U.K.—A tempest in a small teapot this week, as Human Rights Watch accused Israel of “apartheid.” That echoed the judgement of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, which said in January that the current Israeli government is an “apartheid regime....

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