What is happening in Israel in the last two months is too intense even for a country accustomed - some would say doomed - to a frenetic pace of dramatic news. After the announcement of the new government's judicial reform proposal that sparked massive protests, like the ones tonight for the tenth consecutive Saturday, the list of events lengthens as the internal fracture widens.
Demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people the likes of which have not been remembered in decades; threats of disobedience from reservists if the plan of the Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, is approved; a bill that annuls the disqualification as a minister (Arieh Deri) decreed by the Supreme Court (TS); the frontal confrontation between the Government and its legal adviser, Gali Baharav-Miara, and the president of the TS, Esther Hayut; the earthquake in the Police that never had a Minister of Internal Security (now called National) like the far-right Itamar Ben Gvir who has announced, for example, the dismissal (frozen by Baharav-Miara) of the head of the Tel Aviv district, Ami Eshed, to the consider that it is too condescending with the roadblocks in the protests... This is an incomplete summary of the last two months in Israel that also faces a chain of Palestinian attacks while in the West Bank Israeli raids continue that usually end in armed clashes with militiamen.
"Israel is experiencing one of its biggest crises that I can remember. What is happening is crazy," laments Hila Shuster at the massive demonstration in Tel Aviv, combining sadness for the situation but hopeful to feel that she is not alone. This Israeli bank from the neighboring city of Holon does not miss a weekly appointment with the immense tide of voices and flags of her country which, according to her, has taken a dangerous course under the leadership of the ultra-conservative coalition. "We protested because we want to continue living in a democratic Israel and not in a dictatorial system without judicial independence," she adds to EL MUNDO in the crowded Kaplan street. Neither the attack on Thursday not far from where we are talking about in which a Palestinian shot and wounded three young people nor the fact that more than two months have passed prevented some 200,000 people from congregating tonight in Tel Aviv while tens of thousands did. in another cities. The continuation of the government project in the Knesset and the accusations and proposals of some ministers only add more protesters every week, including also from the right.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denies that the reforms will harm democracy and replies that "in a democracy you have to respect the electoral results", alluding to November 1. The cries launched in Tel Aviv coincided with the end of his visit to Italy, overshadowed by the attack, the reestablishment of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia and the crisis of the judicial plan that divides the Israelis and the Jewish diaspora, as could be verified in the Sephardic synagogue in Rome.
Netanyahu, who for his part is on trial for corruption, did not imagine such a monumental and cross-sectional protest. "Had he known, it is possible that Netanyau would not have appointed Levin as Justice Minister, who for 20 years has been waiting for the opportunity to make profound judicial changes," they admit in Likud. Netanyahu has 64 of the 120 seats to fulfill the individual dream of Levin and the collective dream of part of his party and his ultra-Orthodox and ultra-nationalist partners, but the economy and the polls indicate that the chosen path is already causing economic and political damage to his country. to his party. 44% of his voters support stopping the parliamentary process to allow a negotiation as the opposition demands.
Netanyahu tries to convince Levin (Likud) to give in but he refused a week ago warning with his resignation according to Channel 13. His objective now is to agree on the reform proposal under the tutelage of President Isaac Herzog who has already criticized it in public or delay it to avoid a national disaster without his government disintegrating.
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