Agreed. There can be no peace or justice while Netanyahu and his crew are in power.
The trouble is that the next guy, Benny Gantz is only marginally better. He doesn't seem as corrupt, or as sadistic, but he's all in on settlements, he's a military lifer—a paratrooper and Special Forces guy, and by most standards would be considered a hard-line right winger. His business background raises a lot of red flags, too.
I've met a lot of Israeli fighters over the years through various hobbies, and know the type pretty well, I think. Many if not most of them are people who I would liken to adult survivors of childhood traumatic abuse. You can see it in their reactions. Abuse leaves behind triggers in the brain, which demand to take control of the whole brain when the trigger alarm goes off. Picture one of those floating undersea mines in old war movies, floating along harmlessly until it's triggered. Then boom. That is implanted trauma.
Israel as a nation was obviously born out of severe trauma. The psychopathology of trauma—its reactionary nature, particularly— is further aggravated by the reality that many if not most of their neighbors have been very vocal about wanting to see them wiped off the face of the earth, so the trauma triggers have enough validation so as not to be considered hallucinations, are not disarmed, and continue to grow.
This combination of reality and traumatic pathology drives huge portions of the electorate to instinctively gravitate toward 'strong man' leaders. Like the undersea mines triggers are programmed to tell the mine to explode, so the traumatic triggers of the Holocaust and the many wars following it program this bloc of the electorate, telling it instinctively that only the 'toughness' of the 'strong man' will suffice.
The only way to deal with trauma is to integrate that trauma into the whole brain—to accept the trauma as an important part of a total reality, but not the whole of reality. It takes intensive treatment to do that, using things like hypnosis, EMDR, and now psychedelics. It takes years, therapy has to continue, and I don't know how one would treat a whole country for it. One person at a time, I guess?
