Netanyahu paves the way for a new era of tyranny
With
dismaying predictability, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
lost no time in exploiting the massacre in Paris. As he has done many
times before, he claimed Europe’s trauma was just a taste of the
suffering Israelis have long known.
Discounting decades of a
brutal Israeli occupation as the cause of the recent wave of Palestinian
attacks, he said: “It is the terrorists who are to blame for terrorism,
not the territories, not the settlements and not any other thing.”
Rather
than criticising the occupation, he added, the world should learn from
Israel’s “aggressive policy” how to defeat its enemies. Last week, he
unveiled the latest measure, outlawing the northern wing of the Islamic
Movement, a popular party among Israel’s Palestinian citizens, one in
five of the population.
