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know what all the fuss is about.

And yahoe has included members of his government who are very extreme.

Again, we've seen this at home.

We get somebody in there who's willing to, somebody named Trump, who's willing to take the fringe of our society and

are even the fringe of the right and put them in positions of power and that shifts

everything and they mentioned this article

a man named Smotrich who had been appointed in a defense position I'm not exactly

short of the title but once he was put in power, and this is someone who was, he wasn't convicted, but he was accused of doing some pretty horrific things and killing people and organizing raids kind of things before he was even in this position.

There was a shooting, a Palestinian gunman shot and killed two settlers,

and the response, he said that the army should strike the cities of terror and its instigators without mercy with tanks and helicopters.

He added that Israel should act in a way that conveys the master of the house has gone crazy.

That is bizarre rhetoric.

And that's somebody who should be on the fringe.

He should be on the outside of everything. But instead, he was given a position where he can do great damage

and have incredible influence. So if I was an Israeli concerned about my

democracy, these kinds of things would concern me, right?

This growing movement, but also the infiltration of the government.

Well, and I think that coming from the government adds a validity to it that might not otherwise be there.

Like if it's just someone who's viewing the situation as such or you know it's speaking on behalf of themselves but definitely that powerful position of

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