• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    I was told many times that the extremists who hold this agenda in Israel are a small minority and do not represent Israel or have much power over its policy.

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      8 hours ago

      Netanyahu isn’t seen as an extremist within Israeli politics. Zionism has always been fascist and always had the agenda of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

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        4 hours ago

        Probably the same kind of ignorance of other countries’ perspective that makes Americans think the political center is somewhere between the US Republicans and the US Democrats.

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          I know it’s framed that way deliberately to western audiences as a way to minimize Israels current actions as fringe instead of mainstream, but yeah, definitely taken that way from the audience. American exceptionalism still has a stronghold in the mentality of the people here unfortunately.