(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Fascism is embedding itself in Israel. [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-12-15 The Stasi could only dream of this type of power. Israel's Insatiable Big Brother Wants More [Link to Haaretz] The government is promoting a bill that would expand the access of the Shin Bet security service to the private data of citizens. According to the proposed law, the Shin Bet would be allowed to conduct covert searches of computers and mobile phones without the knowledge of their owners, as well as being granted sweeping access to state authorities, including police, National Insurance Institute and government ministries. If the law is approved, the Shin Bet will be able to know everything about everyone in this country. Mixed in with the aims of The Priority Minority Report and 1984. According to the bill, even the most personal details, the core of privacy, will not be completely protected. This includes people's religious beliefs and political persuasions. A "concrete concern" of an illegal act will suffice for removing any protection given to private space and to the freedom of opinion and belief. The new law will thereby enable political persecution, possibly even choking off the freedom to think differently than the prevailing consensus. Oh it never would you say: Ben-Gvir's Ministry Runs 'Like a Crime Organization Has Taken Over' [Link to Haaretz] The security minister casts fear over his employees and interferes incessantly with their work to promote his political interests, sources say. He surrounds himself with senior police officers to bolster his public image and is 'obsessed with the media', another source describes. Sound familiar? "The ministry is in complete chaos and it feels like a criminal organization has taken it over," says a senior source in one government ministry. The source adds: "Nothing is done for relevant considerations, everything is campaign and media, that's what they care about, and everything with shouting and an atmosphere of fear." Reinforced by: France calls West Bank Israeli settler violence 'policy of terror' [Link to Reuters] "Concerning the West Bank, I'd like to express the strongest condemnation by France of the violence carried out by the settlers against the Palestinians," foreign ministry spokesperson Anne-Claire Legendre told a press conference. "Violence which has the clear objective of forced displacement of the Palestinians and a policy of terror." But, but America stands for democracy. How American citizens are leading rise of ‘settler violence’ on Palestinian lands [Link to the Guardian] The Biden administration instituted a travel ban on extremist Jewish settlers who attack Palestinians but there is a glaring loophole for US citizens Many of the estimated 60,000 Americans living in the West Bank outside of occupied East Jerusalem moved to settlements for the lifestyle and have little to do with the Palestinians on whose land they live. But a core of ideologically driven US citizens were at the forefront of building religious settlements on land expropriated from Palestinians while others have led the rise of what has been described as “settler terrorism”. For the lifestyle? WTF A lifestyle of land theft and criminality by participating in an international crime. Some fucking lifestyle choice. My conspiracy theory The duration of Israel's war of retribution on the Palestinians and ignoring any US comments to be less barbarically vicious is deliberately being done to weaken Biden and strengthen Trump. This is not snark, it seems to be working. Ah, 2 religious Autocracies perhaps they’ll link arms with Putin’s Russia? What a nice New World Order. Where everyone else is a Nazi. This last bit may be a trifle snarky [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/15/2211859/-Fascism-is-embedding-itself-in-Israel?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/