The level of militant lust for revenge in Israeli society is uncharted these days. The latest example came on Friday, when Israeli Channel 12 journalist Danny Kushmaro released a 27-minute report on Israel’s destruction in southern Lebanon. The title of the presentation was “This is not the Third Lebanon War, it is the last one.”
Channel 12 is the most-watched commercial channel, it’s considered centrist and mainstream. In the report, Kushmaro is embedded with Golani infantry soldiers riding into a village in southern Lebanon, called Ayta Al-Sha’b. The village is almost entirely razed to the ground, but there are still some buildings left. Kushmaro’s report is replete with vitriol, where he repeatedly refers to “these evil people”, whom he chides for “hating Israel”.
At the end of the story, Kushmaro is offered the task of pressing a button to denonate a building.
Yeah, the vast majority of Israelis do support the genocide (per polling in the past year).
There’s some smaller group that want a ceasefire just to get the hostages home. There’s a smaller group of people who are opposed to the genocide because they value the lives of their Palestinian neighbors. There’s a smaller group of Israelis that are antizionist (revolutionaries opposing the existence of a Jewish ethnostate).