
Israel on the Brink
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The Impact of BB's Rhetoric on Israeli Society
Tamar Jacoby: He's one of those guys who's fooled a lot of people over the years because he didn't come out at the beginning and say, I would like to transition Israel to a non-democracy. She says that when BB comes out on the election day in 2016 and starts talking about the Arabs are voting in droves as if they're foreigners, that was a seismic moment.Jacoby: Once you get a leader who's willing to put his own political interest over anything, that's what accelerated this devolution in Israeli democracy. The other issue is the extent to which Americans like to hear whatever shred of an inkling of something BB says, it sounds reasonable they
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