Green light to go after leftists
JVL Introduction
A hard-hitting editorial in Haaretz anticipates the attacks on democracy to come.
It does so by telling the story of ultra-Orthodox journalist and commentator Israel Frey, who dared to suggest in a tweet that Palestinian resistance to occupation was legitimate.
It was alleged that his tweet constituted incitement to terror and violence as well as encouragement and praise of terrorism.
It didn’t, but the atmosphere in anticipation of the new Israeli regime is such that the simple expression of uncomfortable views is met with immediate reactions of hostility and harassment.
This is shown graphically in a short video clip from Breaking the Silence which follows the editorial below, with a young soldier teling an activist: “Ben-Gvir’s going to bring order to this place…You’re done for… I decide what the law is around here…“
This article was originally published by Haaretz on Tue 29 Nov 2022. Read the original here.
Green Light to Go After Leftists
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What we are seeing in Israel is what happened in South Africa. Although White South Africa saw itself as a democracy it was inevitable that the police state that was the African lot would sooner or later creep into White society with the banning of the Communist Party, banning orders etc.
So too with Israel. The dictatorship and military regime that the Palestinians experience is creeping back into Israel. Israeli Palestinians have already experienced their own pogroms and the Police complicity in it. But Israeli socialists and leftists will also find that what happens in the West Bank will not stay in the West Bank.
It is not possible to maintain a democracy, even for Jews, when you are maintaining a military dictatorship across a Green Line that no one even acknowledges exists anymore
With the recent electoral results it should be no surprise that government will use harsher attempts to eclipse and silence legitimate Palestinian human rights protest, and the inevitable outcome of that policy is that there is an increasing risk of Palestinians seeking more radical means to get their protest noticed. Under international law it is legitimate for those oppressed violently to respond in kind. Anyone can understand that that is also natural justice, a course that any oppressed peoples might take, irrespective of race, ethnicity or faith.
It’s what you get when Democracy is corrupted by PR and Fascists
No matter who you vote for, the same Cockwombles are in control
Historically what happens when the people are left with little or no hope, where for the first time ever their children will not do better than them
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When the Israeli authorities are able to colonise large swathes of Palestine to create Jews / Zionist- only colonies and associated infrastructure, necessarily barring that land to the indigenous Palestinians and ethnically-cleansing them from it, with little condemnation from even pro-Palestinians, they are entitled to believe that there is nothing that they cannot get away with. The political and financial backing that they get from the USA and the huge Christian Zionist / Evangelical lobby incl. Pres Biden, and ex VP Mike Pence, will require pro-Palestinians to get together and importantly, to tell it like it is. We need to appeal to Christian Zionists to act a bit more Christian.
This is such a strange paradox. The Israeli state is adopting the mantle of its Nazi tormentors who slaughtered Jews during the Holocaust. Jews suffered unbelievable atrocities carried out by the extreme Right. Have Israeli leaders learned nothing from that experience. Do they believe the rest of the world will forgive them for the crimes they are committing. At the moment the support they are getting from the US and UK governments plus others makes them safe. Nothing lasts forever and opinions will change. Support will be withdrawn eventually . In the last few years one can see more and more public support is draining away. There will be some extremely difficult times ahead.