Sadly, the "new" government's return to our faux "balanced approach" is nothing but a euphemism for the shameful inaction and appeasement that has helped to enable the Israeli government's deliberate perpetuation of a military, political, and economic campaign to deny the Palestinians their right to self determination and steal their land and resources - which all this really is - for decades.

The moment Netanyahu's radical coalition was formed, the world had a duty to alter the way it deals with Israel, and now that the government has stopped even feigning an interest in peaceful coexistence, there is simply no excuse for doing nothing to hold Israel's government accountable for its brazen defiance of the UN and systemic violation of the law.

The Green Party's shameful recent uproar over supporting BDS reinforced how much influence the Israeli far-right's powerful Lobbyists have over all of our political parties.