With the situation this dire, you might expect the Israeli protesters to call on the Palestinian citizens to join in their struggle. Open gallery view Protesters wearing fezzes and slamming 'Erdogan-style' policies at a pre-election demonstration against 'Crime Minister' Benjamin Netanyahu's alleged corruption. Both opposition movements, in Israel and Turkey, emerge from parties with a long history of denying the existence of the ethnic other within their societies. For Israel, this is a shift whose urgency is now competing head-to-head with the pace of Netanyahu's shock and awe campaign to change the face of Israel. Louis Fishman is an associate professor at Brooklyn College who divides his time between Turkey, the U.S. and Israel, and writes about Turkish and Israeli-Palestinian affairs.

Source: Ethiopian News January 24, 2023 03:11 UTC