Naftali Bennett’s Attitude Towards Arabs

In a New York Times article, Ezra Klein interviewed former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. While he made some useful points, Olmert could not control his appetite for settling political scores. Most interestingly, when Klein asked him about Naftali Bennett, the leading contender to defeat Netanyahu in the next elections, Olmert called him “Ben-Gvir with a suit.” Because Ben-Gvir is widely thought to have Hitlerite political aspirations for Palestinians, clearing them from Gaza and much of the West Bank, Olmert is inferring Bennett is “Hitler lite.”