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  Wtf are you talking about, Israel is one of the most open country to gays and most things LGBT+, definitely more opening than most European countries and all of the middle East. Maybe you should educate yourself before giving an idiotic take.
context: These right-wing Orthodox Jews are really biting off more than they can chew. The backlash from the secular (majority) voter base at the next election will be huge. >
  
  My man, you underestimate how brainwashed they are.
  The reiligious people will keep on voting their reiligious parties, that won't change.
  The secular that vote BiBi? They will believe and excuse everything he says or does and truly believe his dumbest of lies. It's a personality cult, what he does matters very little at this point. >
  
  the last part you said is not entirely true, from people around me who voted bibi i hear that they are disappointed and "surprised" by what had happened with the orthodox jews. >
  
  Some might be suprised, but the majority don't.
  And even those suprised, will they vote some else now? Probably not
  Already I have seen some people activly support the legalizaton of racism because "it's by him, it'll only target the LGBT/arabs and fuck 'em"
  People that mention how the left is at fault for the economic and security state of the country(despite, out of the last....15 ish last years, they were in power for a single year)
  How 4 general commanders are anti-israel and the ONLY person who it makes sense to control the military+ police is a guy who was refused service on account of being mentally unstable
  Or how things he preached about his "enemies" doing but then did it himself, at that point it was fine.
  His followers defend everything with "whataboutism"
  He is just about everything wrong with politics, thriving off of hate and seperation >
  
  enough are suprised for him not to elect again(if there were magically an election in the next week otherwise people will forget). >
  
  Let’s not waste more money just to elect the same asshole again.
  It’s obvious that the majority is heavily right leaning and has begun flirting with fascism.
  Personally I’ve given up on seeing a competent, well functioning government here, nor do I think we will get a leftist government anytime soon. 
  I feel like it’s been over for a while, and I’m tired of pretending there’s something left to fight for. 
  Most right wingers here are objectively and horribly racist, homophobic and xenophobic.
  I’m not under the pretense that they can be “saved”. >
  
  A lefitis goverment does not exist for the simple fact that the israeli left is non-existing
  You have "left" which is ONLY Meretz, and Haavoda to a lesser extent
  The rest are "BiBi's Left" aka not left at all, just not siding with him >
  
  Well of course,  religious Zealots are going to Zealot. >
  
  Zealot >
  
  Thank you >
  
  My pleasure! I was hooked on phonics personally so I can see how that error would be easy. >
  
  Obviously the original post has been edited but the way it reads now, it looks like you call OP a zealot for their opinion on religious zealots and their response is “Thank you!” >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 67%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  JERUSALEM - Israel's largest medical center and health care workers from hospitals around the country have spoken out against remarks by allies of Benjamin Netanyahu calling for a law to allow discrimination against LGBTQ people in hospitals and businesses.
  Earlier this week, two Netanyahu allies from the ultranationalist Religious Zionism party said that their faction seeks to change an anti-discrimination law in a way that would permit businesses and doctors to deny service to LGBTQ people on the basis of religious belief.
  ADVERTISEMENT. Orit Struck, a Religious Zionist lawmaker, said her party seeks a change to the country's anti-discrimination law that would include allowing religious health care providers to refuse to treat LGBTQ patients "So long as there are enough other doctors to provide care."
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Religious^#1 against^#2 LGBTQ^#3 Netanyahu^#4 party^#5 >
  
  Amazing but not shocking that this crook keeps maintaining and acquiring power >
  
  He failed forming government so many times, yet they keep making him prime minister, is there no one else?! >
  
  
  , is there no one else?!
  
  honestly, there isn't. His main opponent (Yair Lapid) right now is a former fluff journalist, not very bright and comes off as arrogant, very fake and not sincere. The second was our equivalent of chairman of joint chiefs of staff, but seems like a very uninspiring man who just failed his way upward along the way.
  I would take either of them just to get the country forward and move out of this situation, but in a normal circumstance I would want neither of them, and they are a big part of his success. Lapid has been trying for at least since 2015 to wink to the right wing audience with no success, because he is completely fake, and all he did was despair left wing voters enough to stay at home.  
  Above all we are cautionary tale of what happens when a political party (the left in our case) spends no time in building new leaders for the future and a vacuum is created. >
  
  
  His main opponent (Yair Lapid) right now is a former fluff journalist, not very bright and comes off as arrogant, very fake and not sincere.
  
  As always, progressives (or at least relatively progressive) struggle because they actually have standards and expect their leaders to be competent and qualified in any way. >
  
  Netanyahu doesn’t need this shit.
  Most Israelis are secular and in fact progressive. They only vote for him out of security concerns. (They are in a rather precarious position)
  There’s no current coalition that’s both hardline on security and military issues and socially progressive.
  So the government will keep collapsing because of outliers. >
  
  Yair Lapid's party (Yesh Atid) has worked great in the security side of things. They don't give Hamas money (Biyuvi did) and they retaliated for every rocket attack which kept things with Gaza quiet. With Biyuvi there were fires and rockets and whatnot.
  The Right simply is very racist and has played the Arab in the coalition card. Thats all.
  As someone said already in here - the right wing are cowards, really. They just fall for any simple threat even if proved otherwise. >
  
  What you are witnessing right now without realizing is a "silent coup" against Israeli democracy.
  Here is a list of all the things Bibi's coalition is trying to do right now, wity the big 3 below:
  Disband the public broadcast network,
  To help them control the media via privately owned outlets.
  Remove laws barring racists from running to parliment 
  Pass laws allowing for discrimination based on "personal beliefs" 
  Pass laws allowing convicted felons to serve as ministers (basicly abolishing rule of law via majority tirany). In case you don't know - in a proparly functioning democracy NO ONE is above the law. 
  They're trying to change that - basically allowing any official with enough popular support to keep in power, opening the door for never ending corruption.
  In a proper democracy, the seperation of government, parliment and judiciary is suppose to  create a balanced system of checks and balances. (Google that please).
  In essense to avoid a concentration of power in a single place, each reach of government can hold only some power, and be limited in its effects by the others.
  In israel that means the Supreme court and government bodies (like police) are seperated from the parliment.
  The parliment can affect them (via ministers and commissions) but NOT control them.
  To break that balance, the current majority tries to take control of the police (a goverment body) by passing thr ben gvir law.
  In short that means giving a single person (the  terrorist sympatizer ben gvir)  the power to track, insturct surviliance, arrest and question his direct political opposition.
  This is nightmare fuel, and we already saw that happen briefly in small scale under Ohana during the covids anti-protests restrictions.
  The second method is to
  Lower the retirement age for Supreme judges (so that current, what they view as "leftist" / "opposition" judges will retire early, combined with a new law that 
  Will change who selects new judges - if up until now the judiciary system alone chose its judges, now they want the parliment alone to select the judges.
  Which again, totally breaks the balance.
  And offcourse the cherry on top,  the law that will allow the parliment to bypass the Supreme court.
  Which is basically saying:no more democracy,  only majority rule now.
  This last extremely controversial law will be kept to last.
  Every single one of these rules, is a threat to Israel as a democracy. Only Some of them together is an attack. The fact they're trying to push ALL of them is beyond crazy. >
  
  Its not anti LGBTQ remarks. Its a law that states that any service giver ( Doctor for example ) can deny service based on personal beliefs.
  This already led to gay couples being denied hotel stay, completely legally. And will get worse. >
  
  Newsflash, the whole Middle East is extremely homophobic >
  
  Not true at all about Israel. Tel Aviv is practically the LGBT capital of the world. >
  
  I wouldn’t call it that when gay marriage isn’t legal in Israel. >
  
  
  Friend, that's just you taking one specific aspect which is problematic in Israel for many reasons. Marriage laws have lot's of issues here even for straights.
  The fact is that for a gay couple wanting to live in equality and peace Israel (Most of it anyway) is one of the best places to be. >
  
  Can't legally be married. 
  Equality.  
  Pick one. 
  Both cannot be true at the same time unless you're immune to cognitive dissonance. >
  
  Gay marriage is recognized. If you are American and get married in another country like many people do you still have a recognized marriage in America legally when you come back. Even if you didn’t get married in America. So many people do the same in Israel. Not perfect but it’s not outright not recognized. >
  
  
  Gay marriage is recognized if you were married somewhere other than Israel. You have to leave the country to bypass laws for the state to recognize it.
  
  You're not making the argument you think you're making. >
  
  I’m not making any argument I’m stating facts. >
  
  Fair enough. 
  The facts you're stating don't have the impact you were hoping for, and the facts you stated don't refute the facts I stated. 
  That's not an argument, either, just stating a couple facts. >
  
  It is legal to be in a gay marriage in Israel tho… >
  
  Extreme religion is always looking for an enemy to destroy.  Fuck those guys. >
  
  Funny thing to see the people who claim to always be discriminated trying to give discriminatory medical treatment ….. >
  
  just like any homophobic country, i do not support israel
  i am gay, and i care too much about my quality of life to waste it with bigots and bigoted countries. >
  
  I mean, they're probably one of the least homophobic countries you'll find, and definitely the least in the middle east. Unfortunately they have some crazies... >
  
  nope, not worth the trouble.
  people have to make choices, not worth visiting a country that offers much less compared to the other options.