“Left-bashing, race-baiting, flag-waving Miri Regev has leapt to the top of the ruling Likud party. She just may be Israel’s most popular and powerful female politician.”
“Over her seven-year political career, she’s gained notoriety as a firebrand. She’s a vehemently anti-immigrant member of parliament who in 2012 called Israel’s African migrant community a “cancer in our body,” later apologizing—to cancer survivors. She is a nationalist who accused Arab members of parliament of being a fifth column; a staunch conservative who strongly opposes a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and a Bible-quoting Jewish woman who supports same-sex marriage.”
“She’s also announced on Israeli TV that she was “happy to be a fascist,” following criticism that her views on foreigners were totalitarian.”
“Love or loathe her—and few people in Israel are indifferent to the Regev spectacle—there is no denying the fact that Regev is a talented politician who, despite her image as a pushy, ignorant figure, has paved her way shrewdly and confidently to the top of the country’s male-dominated ruling party, where the next woman on the party list is only at the 14th spot.”
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