Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Rightists Award Student Who Persecuted 'Left-Wing' Teacher [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)No, I think such people effectively dominate the discourse in your nation, and that a fair portion of the remainder go with it for the benefits. I've compared the situation to the US south in the 1950's, with active rabid segregationists leading the charge, and more-or-less indifferent whites coasting in their wake because segregation gave them benefits and a sense of power, even if they had no personal stance against blacks.
But in the south, as in Israel, there are very definitely people who take a stand against this sort of shit. I've noted this repeatedly, Israeli, though usually with the lament that such people are denigrated and derided within the society and are no closer to the halls o power than the American left is (and of course, these Israelis get the ultimate epithet of "leftist" so there's another bridge there.)
As for Rabin... I'm not forgiving towards someone who engages in the sort of shit he got into during his IDF career. i can acknowledge he had a change of heart somewhere along the line, but that doesn't wipe the slate clean. If you issue orders to purge cities of their civilian inhabitants, there's no backsies. If you look at demonstrators and tell your command to shatter their legs, arms, and hands, you don't get to say "oops." If you conduct massive bombardment of civilian populations in a deliberate attempt to create refugees, you don't get to be a hero in my book. If that offends you... well, tough. Inflicting carnage on civilians offends me, and I'm going to value their lives more than your feelings.