Can AOC's Israeli counterpart build Israel's version of the Democratic Party?

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Israelis have a choice in this week’s election between an anarchist, halachic state and a liberal democracy, argues left-wing Israeli lawmaker Stav Shaffir.

“I think today, the differences between the democratic Israel and those on the right is very clear,” Shaffir told Jewish Insider during an interview last week at a cafe in south Tel Aviv. “On the right, what they want is an anarchist revolution, a libertarian halacha state and annexation of the West Bank.”

Those on the left, she continued, “understand that we need to have a border between us and the Palestinians, we need a two-state solution to keep Israel Jewish and democratic — to all of its citizens, Jews and Arabs — and we need to stop the Orthodox monopoly on every bit of our religion.”

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A FEW WEEKS ago Shaffir released a video in English targeting “my fellow Democrats,” slamming the BDS movement and pointing out that “not all Israelis are Netanyahu.” She scoffs at the suggestion that the relationship between Israel and the United States is at a peak right now due to the close ties between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“How about the young generation in the United States? Do they think the same about that?” Shaffir asked. Instead of bringing the countries together, she said, Netanyahu has “made Israel a partisan issue in the United States… he failed to create that sense of brotherhood with our brothers and sisters in the United States. Especially when it comes to our generation, where the distance with Israel is the biggest it’s ever been.”


https://jewishinsider.com/2019/09/can-aocs-israeli-counterpart-build-israels-version-of-the-democratic-party/