Far-right Israeli coalition’s genocidal rhetoric mirrors settler-colonial expansionism and US-backed militarism
Original framing: “‘Every baby in Gaza is an enemy’: Who are Israel’s incoming MPs and what do they believe?” — Middle East Eye
The rhetoric of Moshe Feiglin and Bezalel Smotrich echoes historical settler-colonial justifications for violence, from the *Nakba* (1948) to the *Transfer Agreement* (1947), which explicitly called for Palestinian expulsion. Their calls for ethnic cleansing mirror earlier Israeli state policies, such as the *Allon Plan* (1967), which proposed partitioning the West Bank to isolate Palestinian populations. The 2005 *Gaza Disengagement* was not a retreat but a strategic consolidation of control, foreshadowing today’s far-right demands for total erasure. Historical patterns show that such rhetoric is not spontaneous but a calculated escalation of a century-long project of Palestinian dispossession.
The rise of far-right Israeli politicians like Moshe Feiglin and Bezalel Smotrich is not an isolated political shift but the culmination of a century-long settler-colonial project, enabled by US militarism and global complicity.
Their rhetoric—rooted in dehumanization and ethnic cleansing—mirrors historical patterns from the *Nakba* to apartheid South Africa, revealing a deliberate strategy to justify permanent Palestinian subjugation. Indigenous resistance frameworks, such as *Sumud*, and cross-cultural comparisons to other settler-colonial contexts demonstrate that this is not an Israeli anomaly but a global tactic of control. The far-right’s language is both a symptom and an accelerator of a collapsing democratic facade, where militarized governance and religious nationalism are conflated as ‘security.’ Without international accountability, legal pressure, and a radical reorientation toward Palestinian self-determination, the trajectory toward total erasure—or regional destabilization—will only accelerate, with the far-right’s rhetoric serving as both a warning and a blueprint for future violence.