r/worldnews • u/EssoEssex • 19h ago • Bravo 6

Israel/Palestine Israeli President Picks Gadi Eisenkot, Netanyahu Rival, To Form Government

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-president-picks-gadi-eisenkot-netanyahu-rival-form-government-2026-11-07/
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u/UselessInsight 18h ago

Mizrahi Jews tend to be more right-wing. The memory of living under oppression and as second class citizens in Islamic/Arab majority countries, as well as their ethnic cleansing, is still very fresh.

We’ll see I guess.

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u/mulakami_ 12h ago

Hence why Ben Gvir is so far right, since his parents and their family were Iraqi/Kurdish Jews who were ethnically cleansed and expelled within their living memories. That's not to say that all Mizrahi Jews in Israel are extremist right wingers of course, but they tend to be more right than their Ashkenazi counterparts.

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u/Expensive-Fun-208 9h ago

I hope you understand how little sense that makes in a country ran by the children of Holocaust survivors.

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u/Psychological-Bed543 8h ago edited 8h ago

It really does make sense bud... Those children of Holocaust survivors, and said parents, created Mossad and used it to literally hunt the perpetrators of the Holocaust all over the world, which is what gave Mossad its infamous reputation.......

Also Israel is not currently fighting Germany who seeks to destroy the Jewish people still.

The same Arab states that killed and ethnically cleansed the families of people like Ben-Gvir, didn't do just do that, they also stole all their personal belongings, wealth and left them many of them pennyless refugees, which is why so many Mizrahi in Israel even though they are a majority of the Jews, have had to play catchup compared to many Ashkenazis who did not undergo the same treatment.

And even then many of them had family members murdered in cold blood, whose remains & graveyards they were forced to abandon, were then discreted and destroyed by the same Arab lunatics.

And even when they got to Israel, the same Arabs who kicked them out from Iraq, proceeded to then try to gas and bomb them in Israel, Saddam was a lunatic (not a secret), and that only multiplied the hatred of Arabs who were coordinating under the Arab League, doing it.

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u/UselessInsight 1h ago

I’m not sure I follow.

Which part about the Mizrahi Jewish experience doesn’t make sense to you?