Published: 8 March 2016
Last updated: 8 March 2016
Thought-provoking analysis, especially when read with the two immediately following posts, and despite references to ‘colonialism’ and’ ethnic cleansing’ that many readers will reject. ‘The unbridled, insular nationalism of Netanyahu’s Israel is also reminiscent of Sisi’s Egypt and Erdoğan’s Turkey, where there is constant talk of foreign plots hatched in Washington and Brussels, and a toxic mix of resentment and entitlement vis-à-vis their Western patrons… Israel does not seem like such an outlier in a world reshaped by the drive towards ethnic and religious separatism, the militarised policing of frontiers, and the emergence of authoritarian populist governments.’
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