Land of Israel Caucus relaunches with bill streamlining building in settlements

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The Land of Israel Caucus held its inaugural meeting in the 20th Knesset on Wednesday, drawing in members from the coalition and opposition, and support from ministers.

MK Yoav Kisch (Likud), who co-chairs the caucus with MK Bezalel Smotrich (Bayit Yehudi), began with a call to action to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman to "put your anger and egos aside and work together in a united, right-wing government."

"Yisrael Beytenu belongs in the coalition," he stated, adding that a stable, strong right-wing coalition can help the caucus obtain its goals.

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"Ideology is the basis of [the caucus]," he said. "Anyone who doesn't think we have a right to Judea and Samaria wouldn't be here." The Land of Israel Caucus in the 20th Knesset is made up of MKs from Likud, Kulanu, Bayit Yehudi, Yisrael Beytenu and UTJ.

MK Eli Cohen said most his party Kulanu's MKs support the caucus, because settlements are important to them.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Land-of-Israel-Caucus-relaunches-with-bill-streamlining-building-in-settlements-428649

No Shas?

[oberliner]

1. What is with this obsession with the settlements?

Right wingers are just completely baffling to me.

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2. this is what happens when you mix religion and government

These are all single-state apartheid advocates.

Because they think that's what their religion says should happen.

[oberliner]

3. Netanyahu is not religious

He is secular.

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4. no, he is a tribalist/nationalist demagogue similar to Slobo Milosevic

or Putin.

But there's a great deal of philosophical overlap between him and his religious allies (many of whom are in Likud). Certainly the mindset that a conquered enemy is to be ruled and dominated, not freed.

[oberliner]

5. "the mindset that a conquered enemy is to be ruled and dominated, not freed."

That's a pretty common mindset around the world these days, unfortunately.

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6. the US avoided it in Germany and Japan nt

[oberliner]

7. We vaporized hundreds of thousands of Japanese and got their unconditional surrender

We also had them disarmed and demanded they be demilitarized forever.

That sort of takes "conquering" to another level.

[Little Tich]

8. Scary. n/t

[azurnoir]

9. It seems revisionist Zionism has had a rebirth in Israel