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long live Palestine
Death to America
That is a perfectly coherent take for 1994 and even for 2015, but these last years Israel has been aligning itself more and more with the anti-US axis in its spirit and rhetoric. The US says "we approve of this, we disapprove of that" and the Israeli elected government responds "who are you to criticize us after what you did in Iraq and Afghanistan?", like if Putin were there in the flesh he could not have been more on-brand. Geopolitically right now Israel wants to be Hungary, and the only thing preventing that is the historical accident of spending all those years as a US proxy state, and all the strings that came attached to that. And some people waving flags and whining "we liked it as a US proxy state" but clearly no one cares about them.
I am not saying you can't make an argument for that succinct manifesto above, just that it used to be self-explanatory how one part is exactly aligned with the other, and nowadays it's much less self-explanatory than it used to be, and that's a point of interest.