(Note:The following may be taken as controversial, even though the author intends little controversy, but for the record it must be advised that this is what the author is thinking off the top of his head, and may not be necessarily true)
So the elections in Israel are over, and Netanyahu has already pledged a bunch of stuff, such as against Palestinians and such. And looking at the results and news, it's hard not to think “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself
does not become a monster . . . when you gaze long into the abyss the
abyss also gazes into you” Basically that by fighting anti-Semites and enemies, Israel (might have) has become something it would hate otherwise: Voting in and accepting far-right politicians and personalities, hating on a group of people within its borders viewed as a threat due to being of different genetics or whatever excuse is made, increased territorial expansion that in the back of my mind kept flashing "Lebensraum", you get the drill. The ideology isn't the same, but a lot of behaviors and tactics are. And with the re-election of Netanyahu, it might be too late when some self-reflection happens, and the picture Israel sees in itself is frightening.
(By the way, I am aware the quote is from Friedrich Nietzsche, but also be aware that Nietzsche was anti-nationalist and his connection to the Nazis was because of his sister rewriting his works when he started losing his brain.)
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