When the World Fails to Stop Israel, It Fails to Stop Netanyahu
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When the World Fails to Stop Israel, It Fails to Stop Netanyahu

In the world, there is no one capable of stopping Israel, supported by the great empire that sits undisputed on its throne, while evangelical Christians hold the keys to its shallow and extremist republican administration. In Israel, no one can stop Netanyahu and his government, bolstered by the wings of religious and political extremism from the followers of religious Zionism and the Haredim. Thus, the genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip continues and intensifies with no glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel signaling its end.

In this context, I was struck by the comments of the Arab affairs analyst at Haaretz, Tzvi Bar'el, who pointed out that the move by the European countries opposed to the continuation of the war towards recognizing a Palestinian state as compensation for the Palestinian people and as punishment for Israel for its intention to occupy Gaza is akin to an escape by the international community from the actual obligation to confront the war, through more effective means that could influence and pressure Israel into ending the war and putting an end to the devastation and mass killings that have been ongoing for about two years under the eyes and ears of the world.

Among the means that those countries avoid using against Israel, as he says, are freezing investments, halting trade deals, academic boycotts, lowering the level of diplomatic representation, stopping flights to Israel, and banning arms exports to it; these are the same sanctions that the international community, including the United States, imposed on South Africa, and later on "rogue" countries (according to its definition) such as Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Bashar al-Assad's Syria, Iran, Russia, and others.

As for the declaration of recognition of the Palestinian state, it does not entail - in the opinion of the Israeli writer - anything that would stir the feelings of Palestinians or destabilize Israel, especially since the American veto awaits such a declaration in the Security Council, which the Palestinian state needs to ratify its establishment; which transforms such declarations by these countries into mere empty linguistic rhetoric... it is akin to extending the license to kill granted to Israel, according to him.

On the internal Israeli front, despite the exposure of the alliance of political, party, and personal interests connecting Netanyahu and members of his government, and the revealing of the fact that the continuation of the war serves these interests conflicting with the public good, the state of paralysis experienced by the opposition parties, which lack a political backbone qualifying them to form a real authoritarian alternative, in addition to the political cover they provided to Netanyahu's government in the early and middle stages of the war, has stripped them of the ability and credibility to confront its cessation.

Moreover, the ambitions of this government, which contains a different demographic-ideological-political configuration, to change the nature of the Hebrew state in its traditional form formulated by secular Ben-Gurionian Zionism, have contributed to weakening the state institutions, which usually acted as a regulator and deterrent against the rampancy of political leadership; among them are academia, the press and media, the judiciary and the Supreme Court, security agencies such as "Mossad" and "Shabak" and even the army, and other institutions of what is called the "deep state," whose weakening has contributed to the "bullying" of political leadership, especially as it is represented by a government that believes it is endowed with ideological-religious cover and is waging a war for existence, invoking to justify itself all the Jewish heritage based on the legacy of persecution and extermination, supported by an American administration whose symbols share the same religious myths with it.

In such circumstances, it is not surprising that the Minister of Justice, at the height of discussions about controlling and occupying Gaza, takes control of the locks of the office of the government legal advisor, whose termination of work the government previously voted on illegally; and that the Minister of Security "controls" the authority to appoint generals and lower ranks in the army, and also prevents the Chief of Staff from entering his office. Lieberman, a former Minister of Security, writes in this context that the goal is "to occupy the army" and control it, not to occupy Gaza.

Many commentators believe that after Ben Gvir's success in coercing the police and turning it into a heavy-handed tool for implementing the government's policy in suppressing Palestinians and opposition voices to the war and protests of the families of Israeli prisoners, there is a tendency to control the army and politically coerce it, transforming it into a tool for executing the government's and its parties' policies in prolonging the war, not the state's policies and interests. They see that humiliating the Chief of Staff, representing what is considered a "sacred cow," is a new pinnacle in the violation of state institutions perpetrated by this government.

Those who previously provided the political and legal cover for Netanyahu and his government, including political opposition and judicial and security institutions, did not realize that he and his ruling coalition had not given up on their dream of achieving what was called "judicial coup," which Israel was divided over before October 7; rather, he succeeded in passing it under the smoke of war and the cover of the Zionist consensus it afforded him.

Therefore, Netanyahu is not content with occupying Gaza; rather, on that very occasion, he occupies the Supreme Court and the judiciary, tightening his grip on "Shabak" and the army, and turning them into rings on the fingers of his far-right government.

This article expresses the opinion of its author and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Sada News Agency.