It has been a dark week for Israel and it hard to face the reality whereby the Israeli government has taken the first steps to destroy the Israeli democracy and passed the first of many laws that will turn Israel into a dictatorial and likely a Halachic state.
Despite months of protests, whereby every Saturday hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets to try and save Israel from this disaster, Netanyahu and his fascist government ministers ignored everything that is happening around them and pushed through the parliament the first step of their disastrous plans.
The law that was approved limits the authority of the Supreme Court and de facto will allow the government to pass legislation without the Courts having the possibility to stop them. This will result on one hand in laws allowing criminals to become government officials, to appoint people to government positions based on their loyalty or family relations and not based on professionalism, to enable corruption, and, on the other hand, in having the Haredim to enforce their life upon Israeli citizens. It will also make it much easier to force additional legislation curtailing the authority of the Supreme Court, without anybody being able to prevent it.
The main so-called justifying argument made by Netanyahu and his fascist cronies, is that they won the elections, they have a majority in the parliament and thus can enforce their worldview on the country, because “the majority” wants this to happen, “the people voted for us to do this”. And this is the big lie that Netanyahu sells his supporters and they believe it because the boss says so. But nothing is more of a scandal than this argument. The government has a majority and in a democratic system, it has the right to govern. But governing does not include braking the law, does not allow anyone to pass legislation that destroys the democratic system that they claim put them where they are and it does not allow them to break the golden rule of democracy: the separation of Powers.
The consequences of the government actions are large, extremely damaging for Israel and maybe irreversible. Start-up companies that are leaving Israel for safer places; others that are moving their money abroad; professionals, including physicians, who have expressed their intention to leave the country and are actively looking for opportunities abroad; and maybe the most dangerous of all, thousands of army reservists, including fighter pilots, cyber experts, special unit personnel and many, many more, are refusing to continue to serve and threaten to refuse to report for duty when called.
The actions by reservist army personnel is being played down by the government, claiming that the readiness of the armed forces is not being affected, but five hundred pilots refusing to serve, together with more than a thousand air force support personnel, cannot but severely affect the ability of the air force to remain fully operational.
The government has been warned by many, many people with rich backgrounds in the army, economics, politics and law. Former senior army personnel, law professors, former politicians, and many others have expressed their reservations and fears about the government plans but to no avail.
There are those who claim that Netanyahu is pushing this forward with all his political might has one major reason only: his current trial for corruption. The next step in his destructive scheme is to institute changes in the procedures for the selection of new judges. This should enable him to have judges appointed that are in his inner circle and who will influence the decisions of the Jerusalem court currently handling his trial. While there is no proof that this is indeed the case, Netanyahu can be trusted to do anything to have his trial and the accusations go away.
In the end, Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Levin and their fascist cronies will disappear. But if they are not stopped now, their ideas will not and Israel will never again be the same. A dictatorial regime is as csn be seen now, easily installed, but it will be very hard if not impossible to undo and violence will then be the fate of Israel in the coming years,. Call it a “War of Brothers” if you want, but it will be no less violent or less painful.
And a dictatorship of Haredim, which is already actively planned, will be the end of Israel as we know it. People who are educated, pay taxes and keep the Israeli economy moving forward like it has in the past years, those people will simply go elsewhere and leave Israel as a big Shtetl. Haredim will live in the “Land of Israel” without income, without a future and with the same fate as the Shtetls in Poland.
“A Black Week” does not even begin to describe this disaster, and as it looks now:
“You ain’t seen nothing yet!”
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