Support from far-right leaders is an “optical illusion” hiding the vulnerability of Israel, historian Ilan Pappé told The Electronic Intifada Livestream on 20 February.
Pappé, one of the Israeli “New Historians” who helped reveal the truth about the 1948 Nakba using official archival sources, outlined trends which may lead to Israel’s collapse: a faltering economy, mass emigration and the global movements to hold Israel accountable. Referring to Israel’s collapse Pappé said, “The question is not if, but when and how.”
Support from fundamentalist Christians and new right-wing fascist parties in Europe “may slow down some of the processes I’m talking about, but they’re not going to stop them,” Pappé said.
”It’s a very dangerous and precarious moment in the history of modern Palestine,” the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine added. He warned that there are new rising powers in Israel which are incompetent and self-destructive. But before they self-destruct, they can still cause much more violence and repression. ….more
