Left-wing Israeli journalist Amira Hass confirmed, in an article in Haaretz newspaper, that the vast majority of Israeli Jews agree with the plan imposed by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on all Palestinians.

She warned that this plan - which aims to subjugate the Palestinians - is moving forward, adding that even those who mocked Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich publicly participate in or support the government's use of overwhelming force against the Palestinian people everywhere.

She explained that Israel is already implementing this plan drawn up by Smotrich, which he called the “twin sister” for fundamental changes to the country’s judicial system.

Haas stated that those who were behind drawing up the plan, supported it and defended it were from the increasingly powerful environment of religious Zionist settlers.

It is noteworthy that representatives of the ruling coalition - which includes extreme right-wing and extremist religious parties - last year approved in Parliament a clause in the judicial reform program that limits the Supreme Court’s ability to overturn government decisions.

The plan caused a sharp division in Israel because it increases the power of Parliament at the expense of the judiciary, and sparked controversy, and the opposition described it as an attempt to overthrow democracy.

One state for one people

The left-wing Israeli writer pointed out in her article that Smotrich presented to closed religious Zionist circles in the spring of 2017 - when he was still a representative of the Jewish Home party - his plan to establish one state from the sea to the river for one people, “the Jewish people.”

Haas assumed that the Israeli Minister of Finance based his plan on letters sent by Joshua bin Nun to the inhabitants of the land he attacked, according to Jewish mythology.

In an interview conducted by Haaretz newspaper on December 3, 2016, with Smotrich, he based his justification for his extremist positions on three letters that the Jews claim were sent by Joshua bin Nun, the boy of God’s Prophet Moses - peace be upon him - to the inhabitants of the land he conquered.

According to those letters, Joshua gave the residents three options: “If the residents of the country do not flee, then restrictions must be imposed on them, that they must be humiliated and despised, and that they must not raise a head in Israel, and if they oppose that, then we will not leave a soul among them.”

In that interview, Smotrich said, "We are resolving the conflict: I am destroying their hopes of establishing a state." When asked by Ravit Hecht - the journalist who conducted that interview with him - his answer included a reference to the letters of Joshua in which he allegedly said: “Whoever wants to accept our rule will be accepted, whoever wants to leave will leave, and whoever wants to fight will fight... and whoever wants to leave will fight.” "We help him."

Terrible warning

In the interview, he also warned the Palestinians that those who do not leave the land “will either accept the rule of the Jewish state, in which case they can stay, but as for those who do not leave, we will fight them and defeat them.”

Haas concluded in her article that when this “terrible” war ends, the majority of Israelis who opposed the amendments to the judicial system will discover that it has almost been accomplished.

The amendments were described as being weaker and more submissive to the ruling regime than ever before, and the educational system has become in complete harmony with it, and the media has come to replace “with great enthusiasm” the official spokesman for the Israeli army.

She concluded sarcastically, "It is truly a victory."

Source: Haaretz