If they’d been Palestinian children waving their flag they’d have been shot.
“Elections do not give anyone the power to destroy democracy itself,” said former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni as she addressed the protest in Tel Aviv, adding that Israel’s far-right government is “carrying out a political takeover of the country and waging a war against its democratic institutions.”
Source: Over a Hundred Thousand Israelis Protest Netanyahu Government
A former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, himself a man of the old secular Israel Right — a man who launched the ruinous 2006 Lebanon war — was horrified at the hordes of misogynists, homophobes, and homicidal maniacs that fills Binyamin Netanyahu’s cabinet in his sixth government. Olmert to his credit did support withdrawing from Gaza and from most of the Palestinian West Bank, things that Netanyahu has vociferously opposed ever since the Oslo Peace Accords of 1993– which Netanyahu bears some responsibility for derailing.
Something remarkable happened in the last few weeks: progressive candidates won elections in Israel and the United States, despite the rise of far-right, anti-democratic politics in both countries. Related stories Israel’s next elections will be about who is more violent to Palestinians By Haggai Matar | November 14, 2018 The rise of the global far-right could energize the anti-occupation movement By Eli Bitan | November 4, 2018 How the settlers took over Israel By Rami Kaplan | November 2, 2018 A rotten system, not just rotten apples By Libby Lenkinski | August 1, 2018 This might come as a surprise, but it shouldn’t be. Many Jewish Israelis support ending the occupation, women’s right to pray at the Wailing Wall, and LGBTQ’s right to get married and adopt children. Similarly, most Americans approve of labor unions, support same-sex marriage, want stricter gun control, and oppose illegalizing abortions. So why do the policies of the Israeli and American governments fail to reflect voter demands?
Source: In the age of Trump and Netanyahu, progressive values are winning | +972 Magazine
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