Ben-Gvir has passed his latest crackpot idea of employing crocodiles as part of the Israel Prison Service’s roster through all the required legal stages. In regimes in which characters such as Ben-Gvir are cabinet members, anything could be made completely legal
Israel National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is taking Israel to the next stage in its development: barbarism as a legal and explicit state policy. In tandem, the minister of national security is bringing sadism out of the closet as well. Sadism is no longer just for deviants; it is the new political correctness. After years in which barbarity and sadism toward Palestinians were hidden as something shameful and repressed – and mainly as the exception to the rule – Ben-Gvir is moving them to center stage to great applause from some of the crowd and silence from the rest.