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On the return of Netanyahu, and Ben-Gvir – Anshel Pfeffer in Haaretz:

‘“The truth is that Netanyahu doesn’t really interest our voters that much anymore,” said one of Ben-Gvir’s advisers. “Bibi is like white rice: he goes with anything. That’s why they’re voting for Ben-Gvir – because only he can ensure that Netanyahu goes with the right.” As befits a senior statesman who is allegedly under threat, the Knesset provided Ben-Gvir with an entourage of bodyguards and a convoy of two large, new black SUVs and a police tactical team. The only reminder of his recent scrappy past was a battered Subaru in the convoy blasting out cover versions of popular Mizrahi songs, reworked to glorify him.
The convoy made its way west, from Kiryat Arba through the towns of the southern Coastal Plain, with stops at polling places that were plastered with Ben-Gvir posters. In Kiryat Gat, Kiryat Malakhi, Ashdod and Ashkelon, no one shouted the name of his party. Just his. No one there was voting for “Religious Zionism.” Everyone was voting for “Ben-Gvir!”’

Read the article here.

The left is a neighborhood in Tel Aviv. It has been said before, but some things need to be repeated. There are just different shades of right.

As in Italy, the leader of the extreme-right party has a message for the world, it’s not as bad as many of you think it is. We'll see.

The metaphor of Netanyahu and white rice, is an apt one.

He is there forever, at least for the foreseeable future.

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