Trump is surfing on a wave of islamophobia and anti-arabic racism: a Trump presidency wouldn't "disenfranchise" the warmongers: they'd just have to propose killing more Arabs and more Muslims to get his and his core constituency's approval.
Strength is transient indeed, but I suspect that the Israeli upper-class knows that, and doesn't delude itself into believing that eternal dominion by the sword is possible:
In the final years of French colonial dominion over Algeria, the few thousands of wealthy land and factory owners -the de facto colonial aristocracy- kept telling the million of middle-class Pieds-Noirs that France would beat the Algerian rebels into submission, while liquidating their algerian assets and preparing their golden "exile" in metropolitan France: that, I think, is the template followed by the Israeli upper-class: to keep ruling their narrow strip of land for as long as possible, then leave on the eve of its predictable collapse and abandon their middle and working class compatriots to the next rulers' wrath.
Rather, he is under the influence of “court Jews” who dislike the Israeli right wing parties and who support Israel’s left wing, which is in thrall to Haim Saban (who made billions with children’s cartoons) and former president Shimon Peres.
Seriously, if this keeps up, Adelson is going to make me like the Power Rangers
They also want to drive the prices up: antiquities trafficking is a profitable gig: destroy some, then sell the remaining ones with an even larger margin.
"‘Lone Wolf,’ ‘Self-Radicalized': Islamophobic Buzzwords never applied to White Terrorists"
Technically, I did hear and read these terms applied to men like Anders Breivik or Maxime Brunerie (the failed would-be assassin of Jacques Chirac)... in French media.
Because in asymmetric conflicts ruthlessness pays more than being honorable.
... Unless the more conventionally powerful opponent remains cool-headed enough to not indulge in violent revanchism.
I heavily suspect that Christian fundies are less motivated by apocalyptic belief and more by sheer racism against a non-white ethnicity (a majority of Israeli Jews are actually arabs themselves being blissfully ignored).
Younger voters want the services that government provides. They grew up with those services after WW2 and expect them to continue. the Republican idea of eliminating services does not sit well with the younger voters.
The republicans do not want to eliminate services: they want to turn these into privileges exclusively granted to their constituency in exchange for they submissiveness toward the moneyed dynasties.
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If Israelis really want a long term relationship with the USA
I don't think the israeli ruling class wants any long term relationship with anyone: they want to keep the social hierarchy which benefit them to keep on going as long as possible before migrating back to Europe's and US' wealthy neighborhoods while leaving their middle and lower-class compatriots alone to deal with their policies' fallout.
Merkel is far from being the sole responsible, and while the EU's byzantine organization has been exploited by the austerity fetichists to obtain a quasi de facto veto over economic policies, austerity wouldn't have been imposed without a substantial fraction of member states' political classes favoring supply-sides policies presented under the guise of budgetary discipline.
Ironically, the people who have done the most to fight against the dishonest fetichizing of austerity are none other than Europe's demagogues favorite bogeymen: european technocrats.
Pretend they don't exist and move on to the next target.
Trump is surfing on a wave of islamophobia and anti-arabic racism: a Trump presidency wouldn't "disenfranchise" the warmongers: they'd just have to propose killing more Arabs and more Muslims to get his and his core constituency's approval.
Strength is transient indeed, but I suspect that the Israeli upper-class knows that, and doesn't delude itself into believing that eternal dominion by the sword is possible:
In the final years of French colonial dominion over Algeria, the few thousands of wealthy land and factory owners -the de facto colonial aristocracy- kept telling the million of middle-class Pieds-Noirs that France would beat the Algerian rebels into submission, while liquidating their algerian assets and preparing their golden "exile" in metropolitan France: that, I think, is the template followed by the Israeli upper-class: to keep ruling their narrow strip of land for as long as possible, then leave on the eve of its predictable collapse and abandon their middle and working class compatriots to the next rulers' wrath.
Unfortunately for everyone involved, Netanyahu adheres to the Bully's golden rule "Do unto others before they become strong enough to do unto you".
Seriously, if this keeps up, Adelson is going to make me like the Power Rangers
Not so long ago, Sanders was presented as irrelevant, then as a merely local oddity
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
...
you know how it ends, right?
They also want to drive the prices up: antiquities trafficking is a profitable gig: destroy some, then sell the remaining ones with an even larger margin.
"‘Lone Wolf,’ ‘Self-Radicalized': Islamophobic Buzzwords never applied to White Terrorists"
Technically, I did hear and read these terms applied to men like Anders Breivik or Maxime Brunerie (the failed would-be assassin of Jacques Chirac)... in French media.
"Why did it behave this way?"
Because in asymmetric conflicts ruthlessness pays more than being honorable.
...
Unless the more conventionally powerful opponent remains cool-headed enough to not indulge in violent revanchism.
I heavily suspect that Christian fundies are less motivated by apocalyptic belief and more by sheer racism against a non-white ethnicity (a majority of Israeli Jews are actually arabs themselves being blissfully ignored).
The republicans do not want to eliminate services: they want to turn these into privileges exclusively granted to their constituency in exchange for they submissiveness toward the moneyed dynasties.
***
I don't think the israeli ruling class wants any long term relationship with anyone: they want to keep the social hierarchy which benefit them to keep on going as long as possible before migrating back to Europe's and US' wealthy neighborhoods while leaving their middle and lower-class compatriots alone to deal with their policies' fallout.
Merkel is far from being the sole responsible, and while the EU's byzantine organization has been exploited by the austerity fetichists to obtain a quasi de facto veto over economic policies, austerity wouldn't have been imposed without a substantial fraction of member states' political classes favoring supply-sides policies presented under the guise of budgetary discipline.
Ironically, the people who have done the most to fight against the dishonest fetichizing of austerity are none other than Europe's demagogues favorite bogeymen: european technocrats.
Dread not the neurotic clerics: dread the neurotic clerks
Have you ever seen bigots deferring to religious taboo when the opportunity to proclaim lordship over some piece of soil arises?
Me neither.