On the pariah express – Esther Solomon in Haaretz:

‘Those sanctions would be a codification of what already seems to be a race towards international pariah status. This week, a swathe of European states and Canada warned of "concrete steps" towards isolating Israel, principally economically, for its war in Gaza and blockade of aid. Israel is also being frozen out of an emerging new Middle East geopolitical architecture.
But, inside Israel, talk of the country becoming a pariah state is apparently taboo. When opposition party leader Yair Golan told a morning radio show that if it "does not return to acting like a sane country" then pariah status beckons. Slamming the government as populated by "vengeful, unintelligent, and immoral individuals," he continued: a "sane state does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set goals for itself like the expulsion of a population."
Cue an almighty outcry, and not only from Netanyahu, who predictably described Golan's comments as "disgraceful antisemitic blood libels."
It is one of those regional ironies that at the same time that momentum is building for sanctions against Israel, sanctions are being lifted against a post-Assad Syria led by a former jihadist. Historically, Israelis have responded to even campaigners for sanctions, such as the BDS campaign, by rallying around the flag.’

Read the article here.

The pariah-express is fairly popular in Israel.

Killing babies as a hobby, well, yes, hobby is the right word here.

I repeat it, political Messianism and the pariah express are more or less the same.