Etan Nechin is the New York correspondent for Haaretz.  Born in Israel, he was previously a freelancer whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Haaretz, Vice, Jacobin, Huffington Post, The Independent, Jewish Currents, Medium, Columbia Journal, and more. 

In this episode, Etan talks about US/Israeli politics, starting with Netanyahu’s long personal and political relationship with the US.  After that, he explains how Netanyahu was able to make Israel a partisan issue in US politics, his appeal to evangelicals, and the future of Israel in American politics.

Etan’s writing at Haaretz:  https://www.haaretz.com/ty-WRITER/0000017f-da5a-d42c-afff-dffa7afc0000

Etan’s personal site: https://www.etannechin.com/

Etan on X:  http://twitter.com/etanetan23

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C P4 months ago

I don't know.

The lesson I've taken isn't so much that guardrails and institutions in the U.S. are flawed but more than rules and norms aren't self-executing. Stopping a unitary executive like Trump's is, in fact, the one thing our guardrails and institutions are supposed to be good at: think how many governments have been elected only to find that they couldn't do this, that, or the other thing, because someone somewhere in the endless galaxy of veto points decided to be contrarian. The current situation is only possible because entire institutions have simply abdicated their responsibility (Congress, Supreme Court) and refused to use their powers.

Our system does need institutional reform, but I don't think any institutional reform can prevent this.

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C P4 months ago

What the fuck. Did I post this in the wrong place. What the fuck.

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