cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43881918
March 1, 2026
Alongside familiar feelings of fear and uncertainty, the newly escalated conflict with Iran has forged a renewed mood of national unity, in which the usual political and social divisions of Israel’s fractured society appeared to have been subsumed by a collective sense that a conflict long willed by so many had finally arrived.
Speaking from inside a shelter as the sounds of missiles and explosions shook the city, Orly Hareuveny, a physiotherapist, told Middle East Eye that Israelis had become so accustomed to war that it was now a distinct characteristic of Israeli life - “the same as the weather is for people in England”.
Hareuveny considers herself a leftist and a supporter of co-existence with Palestinians, political views that have been marginalised in the Israel of Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition and its three-year genocidal war in Gaza.
Sounds like about comparable to white USians pre-civil-rights who support local integration with black people, but are otherwise full blown colonizer/imperialist. Which is to say, it’s something I guess, but it’s a very politically centrist position to have outside of the rabid colonizer state. So like, it’s not as much of a “divide” is it’s made out to be.
Oh, I should have read more first, yeah that confirms it:
So this does not seem like a meaningful example of “unity across divides” to me. It’s people who agree on 90% putting aside the 10% for the moment. Like if those of us in the US said that democrats uniting with republicans was “unity across divides”.