The Israeli Jewish community has had arguments among itself about what kind of settler colonialism to institute in historic Palestine. The right radicalized and became a revolutionary force that wants to overthrow the existing order, writes Shmuley Boteach. There isn't really a countervailing force, ideologically, within Israeli society on a principled level, he says.
Featuring Edo Konrad and Joshua Leifer on how Zionism's long-running contradictions led to the current political crisis in Israel.
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