The New Face of Israel’s Hard Right

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Last summer, thousands of Israelis shared a Facebook post published in Hebrew by little-known right-wing lawmaker Ayelet Shaked.

An excerpt from an unpublished article written by pro-settler Uri Elitzur, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s onetime chief of staff, who passed away in May 2014, the post was published in English translation on a blog on the anti-Zionist website ElectronicIntifada.com. The author of the blog post claimed that the 631-word excerpt called Palestinian children “little snakes” and accused Palestinian mothers of raising their kids to become violent martyrs. And, the blog post said, it read as “a call for genocide” of the Palestinian people.

Shaked, at the time a junior member of the right-wing, nationalist Jewish Home party, quickly defended the post and argued that the translation was unfair, though she later removed the post from her facebook page.

But the damage was already done. The story was soon picked up by American news outlets, and Turkey’s then prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, even used the incident as an occasion to describe her politics as no different from the Nazi Party. “What is the difference between this mentality and Hitler’s?” he said.

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Her rapid ascent to the highest reaches of the Israeli political system hit a new peak Wednesday, less than a year after that controversy, when the 39-year-old computer engineer and mother of two was given control of Israel’s Justice Ministry. Shaked got the post as part of a desperate last-minute deal that saved Netanyahu from a looming deadline that could have lost him his seat.

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https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/07/the-new-face-of-israel-hard-right-netanyahu-ayelet-shaked/

[Scootaloo]

1. "she has identified as right wing since she was only 8 years old"

There's a word for that: brainwashing.

Also, "Child abuse."

[cali]

2. aside from everything else- and that's a lot- she has no legal

background at all.

[Scootaloo]

4. I get the impression that legal knowledge is probably more of a detriment to an Israeli politician

I mean they're a few bad mustaches shy of running a Caribbean junta.

[Israeli]

3. New face !! ???.....

.....nothing new about the philosophy of Abraham Isaac Kook cali.