The Israeli Prime mMinister is working to take away his countries legal system’s ability to counter its political leadership….
Netanyhu (Bibi), who has been under criminal charges for years, got his job back by dancing with the countries ultra-Right political parties…
His efforts have turned Israeli’s against him and his efforts…
It is now got it’s military people in revolt….
The people have gone to the streets….
A country that is fighting the Arabs is now fighting its own insides….
(Many of soldier’s in the streets object to the far right’s ultra aggressive policy towards the Arabs)
By cancelling Donald Trump two and half years ago?
America avoided this….
Hopefully Trump will never get a second chance to do what ‘Bibi’ is trying to do…..
Old army buddies embraced. Loudspeakers blared slogans of solidarity. Protesters piled garbage bags filled with fake money and signs reading “Kohelet is closed” at the office’s main doors.
Police arrested seven participants, including a commander in charge of soldier selection for the prestigious Sayeret Matkal reconnaissance unit — the same one Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once served in.
The morning event kicked off another day of nationwide demonstrations, as tens of thousands flooded the streets and paralyzed traffic in Tel Aviv. Thousands of police were deployed near the international airport, where protesters aimed to disrupt Netanyahu’s trip to Rome, one of his first international visits since assuming office in late December.
Netanyahu was forced to travel by helicopter to the airport to avoid the demonstrators and to meet U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin inside the airport, rather than at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv as originally planned.
Austin’s visit came at a time of dual crises for Netanyahu, who faces swelling protests over his plans to radically restructure the courts and escalating violence across the West Bank. On Thursday morning, at least three Palestinian militants were killed in a shootout with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Jenin, bringing the Palestinian death toll to at least 74 since the start of the year. Fourteen Israelis have been killed by Palestinians over the same period….
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“The reservists are an inseparable part of the [Israel Defense Forces],” its chief of staff, Herzi Halevy, told dozens of reserve commanders from the Israeli Ground Forces, the Military Intelligence Directorate, the Israeli Air Force and the Israeli Navy on Wednesday. “Certain cracks can form that will be irreparable in the future.”
Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul aims to weaken the Supreme Court, grant virtually unbridled power to the ruling coalition and potentially extricate the prime minister from prosecution in his ongoing corruption trial. The process has sparked unprecedented resistance from within the military, which is a central pillar of Israeli society — most Israelis are mandated to serve at the age of 18 and as reservists for decades after….
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“We won’t accept violence in Huwara, and we won’t accept violence in Tel Aviv,” Netanyahu said. Days later, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also supervises security in the occupied West Bank, said: “Huwara should be wiped out. I think the state of Israel should do it.”
Yoav Rosenberg, who served in the Israeli military for 25 years, said Smotrich’s statement was “a gift” because it showed that Israel’s highest ranking ministers support war crimes.
“This is not about law,” he said. “It’s about changing the rules of the game.”…
image…The protest Thursday outside the Kohelet Policy Forum, a far-right think tank that is funded by two U.S. billionaires. (Abir Sultan/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)