Middle East Eye on Instagram: "“Glorious times, then, these clearly were for some Israelis; particularly, of course, this far-right, fanatical minority of them whose leaders, with Netanyahu in their clutches, were now in good measure running the country. Among the more rational, secular or moderately religious – but now diminishing - portion of the population, these were beginning to feel more like times of madness, the consummation - as one of them put it – of that ‘march of folly’ which had first set out in the aftermath of the 1967 war. And it was quite striking: ‘left’ or ‘right’, ‘religious’ or ‘secular’, ‘rich’ or ‘poor’ are the stock-in-trade of political discourse anywhere, but in the Israel of today ‘sane’ or ‘insane’ was catching up with them... So, when all is said and done, will this Israeli madness actually turn out to have been the equal of that which brought down Hitler’s Germany, as historian Moshe Zimmerman suggests? Whatever does transpire, I doubt whether future h...
