cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36484465

from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in #Israel]
Sept 21, 2025

Israel’s center-left camp is now plotting a return to power, with the latest polls suggesting that Netanyahu and his far-right coalition will struggle to form a majority in the next elections, currently scheduled for October 2026. Yet as Joshua Leifer argued, the Israeli opposition remains its own worst enemy, still in denial about its only trump card: joining forces with Palestinian-led parties.

And for Orly Noy (first published on Local Call), Israel is unleashing a holocaust in Gaza, and it cannot be dismissed as the will of the country’s current fascist leaders alone. The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich — and if Israel is ever to return to the fold of humanity, it must undergo a deep process of denazification.