The Race Card

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interesting...

i thought i was going to enjoy a little rant about using the race card, and the joy of being a middle eastern in north america...

but this is far more interesting.

at first glance, my instinct is to deny that they can have any kind of legitimacy, but then i look at my own country, and... well, i am not sure to what extent our current ruling party - the Likud lead by binyamin - is that different from them.

he has instated the death penalty - not for pedo's or even murderers, but specifically for threatening the life of the PM (himself).
he has provided a partial 1 year government payment for the higher education of army veterans (otherwise known as almost everyone "local"), which is way better then housing.
he has increased the government support the religious right's control over the immigration process (which is racial by nature).
and to say he is islamophobic would be the understatement of the day...

if you'd ask me a decade ago, the idea of him coming into power again would seem incredibly unlikely... but with the left loosing its voting base since the fall of the peace treaties, and the right loosing its leadership, the vacuum was there for him to fill.