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Be fearful!

We all knew that with Benjamin Netanyahu being asked to form government in Israel that nothing good would come from it.

With the prospect of the ultra rightist and racist Avigdor Lieberman becoming Foreign Minister, as Gideon Levy in "The rule of fear" writes in Haaretz says, the rule of fear is upon not on Israel but everyone else too. An attack on Iran must be seen as a distinct possibility. As for any sort of peace with the Palestinians, that will most likely if not disappear, certainly recede rapidly.

"As Benjamin Netanyahu ascends to power, his message is the danger of a holocaust at the hands of Iran. Avigdor Lieberman emerges victorious and his message is that Israeli Arabs are a cancer. Never before has a government been established here solely based on sowing fear. Devoid of promise or hope, the government being formed offers only the prophecies of apocalyptic doom on whose waves the right rode to power. Now it's the right's only agenda.

Fear of an external enemy has from time immemorial been the most effective weapon of every right-wing or fascist regime. It's good for national unity, it's effective in stifling dissent, and it hides every other pressing issue. Israel, which has known far worse dangers and which has already been ruled by rightist governments, has never had a government that only speaks the language of fear-mongering."

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