Published: 2 July 2016
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Hyper-nationalists always hold their national entity to be the best and purest and most saintly, and subjected to insult and injustice at the hands of inferior nations abroad and/or untrustworthy and unpatriotic people at home. The glee with which Israel’s nationalist right celebrated Brexit shows just how disconnected it is from reality. Do they really think Russia or China would make better friends than the EU?
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And see:
Trump, Brexit, ISIS and the unmistakable stench of the 1930s – Chemi Shalev – Haaretz 27.06.16
The fact that there is no direct comparison to Europe in the 1930s doesn’t mean that the echoes don’t come through loud and clear. Brexit is but one in a series of contemporary events and phenomena that should prick our thumbs, as the second witch says in ‘Macbeth’, to warn us that ‘something wicked this way comes.’
British Jews voted 2-1 against Brexit: Poll– Cnaan Liphshiz – The Forward 01.07.16
Brexit: should EU sicken, Israel will suffer too June 25, 2016
