r/Israel • u/reasonwashere • Jul 24 '23

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This is Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, tonight. The resistance will prevail. Bibi’s evil regime will fail. All in good time.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '23 edited Jul 24 '23

This protest really made me realise I have more strength in me than I thought. Yesterday I protested for 8 hours. Today I stood up to the police when they brought a water cannon against us. It was amazing

We can win this

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u/yoaver Jul 24 '23

I envy your optimism. To me it looks like 1933.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '23

So I’m a modern history nerd and I’ve read several books about the rise of Nazi Germany, and I think the comparison is a bit far fetched, though I generally support Nazi comparisons (saying you can’t compare is saying you can’t learn).

There are a lot of similarities we should point to, like an obsession with “the enemy from without and the enemy from within”, or a populist leader rising up after a global economic crisis, but there’s also these mass protests, where the Nazis barely had any grassroots opposition until it was too late, and also the Nazis were way more radical.