Post-election Israel, we have reached the verge of a dangerous slide

Written by: Jawad Boulos
I am writing this article in conjunction with the results of the official Israeli elections; The general picture revealed by the ballot boxes is clear and confirms that we will face in the near future the completion of the formation of a new political style of government different from what we faced since the establishment of Israel until the days of the previous government.
I know that many members of my Arab community will object to this characterization, because they equate the policies of previous Israeli governments, from the time of David Ben-Gurion until the era of the Yair Lapid government, towards Arab citizens, and what the government of Netanyahu, Smotrich Ben-Gvir, and their allies from the Zionist and religious parties will do. All successive governments of Israel have treated the country's Arab citizens with systematic and blatant racism, and sometimes with bloody repression. In some heated confrontation stations, Arab victims have fallen, such as what happened in the Land Day confrontations in 1976 and the "October"-October 2000 confrontations, and in many individual attacks.
Of course, it is difficult to convince many segments of Arab society that there are serious differences between the racist regime whose lame "democracy" leaders, after their failure to displace our fathers during the Nakba, recognized the need to treat Arab citizens with incomplete equality, while they were practicing their racist policies against us in various ways and pretexts, and between The "Kamil-Fascist" regime will inevitably deal with and act with us according to concepts that require us, the "vandalists" according to their dictionary, to indoctrinate us, the "saboteurs" according to their dictionary, the abstracts of their "comodian" convictions, to the effect that they are "the owners of this house and the masters of this land", and they will not accept with them in this space a partner or an inmate. .
All the leaders of the Arab parties and our basic leadership institutions, the Supreme Committee for the Follow-up of Arab Citizens Affairs and the Qatari Committee for Presidents, along with most of the civil society institutions, have failed to resolve the differences between the two cases and to mobilize and organize the citizens in preparation for facing the moment of decisiveness, as was demonstrated by everyone’s positions towards them before and during the electoral battle.
I chose to write again about the dangers of what the election results led to, and deliberately avoided, at least at this stage, from addressing its repercussions and analyzing its disturbing results. Many will start drawing their pens and flooding us with these analyzes, and there is no need for more, and I am convinced that there is no point in any criticism of those who hold positions and how they practiced them before and on election day, and because what concerns me today is how we will face what this result will lead to on the day after the establishment of the expected Netanyahu government.
Some may bet that the next government, no matter how religious and extreme right-wing nationalism it is, will not dare to do what its predecessors did not dare. I do not know where they come from with this conviction, especially after we heard the promises of dozens of deputies, from most of the prospective coalition parties, to their constituents and their pledges to implement their fascist stances towards the Palestinians in general and towards us, the Arab citizens, in particular; We also heard them openly declaring their plans to complete the elements of the provisions of their authority over all state facilities and enable them, as government and ministers, to embody their "nationalist" beliefs to confirm the supremacy of the Jewish people and their dominion over the land of Israel and the "gentiles" who inhabit it, without contest and as promised by their Lord.
The "National Law" will be just a prop for what they are planning, from which they will launch a complete takeover of the Israeli Supreme Court, by changing the law for electing its judges and authorizing the government to appoint them, or at least, by ensuring a government majority in the appointments committee; They will also initiate a direct enactment of a law that empowers the Knesset to overturn the decisions of the Supreme Court, when this court intervenes and annuls a law that is not in line with the principles of democracy, equality, and others. Thus stated two days ago, Likud Knesset member Miki Zohar, when asked about his first activity in the next government, and added that on the first day they will pass a law that "forbids Arabs in Israel to raise the Palestinian flag and revoke the citizenship of every citizen who raises it." It will not suffice for an article to list what they intend to implement after receiving the government; Representative Miri Regev, for example, will start cleaning the ministries from the class of professional employees, the technocrats, because these employees often obstruct the implementation of government decisions and must be eliminated. While Smotrich announced that if he became Minister of the Army, he would push his regular units into the streets of mixed cities, so that those forces would ensure order and security there. On the other hand, his colleague in the list, Itamar Ben Gvir, who is claiming the internal security portfolio, stated that he would immediately start changing the shooting instructions, "You will not, after today, throw stones and rocks at police officers without our permission to shoot. We will grant personal immunity to every policeman, and in every event." And an accident that takes place on a national background will give soldiers and police freedom of action." I will not dwell on how they think about the Arabs/terrorists and their representatives in the Knesset. The idea of our displacement/transfer is no longer just a Zionist obsession, as it was in the old years, but has become a completed plan waiting for a favorable opportunity to implement it under the next government.
It is clear that the elements of the upcoming regime are working to develop an integrated system of tools to manage governance and to establish it in accordance with its concepts and objectives, and to pursue and punish all “enemies of the state and the system,” starting with the general public and passing through university students and employees, and even doctors, lawyers and university lecturers. There are those who will monitor everyone's daily behavior and their visual, Facebook, and other activities; What Netanyahu's governments practiced previously will appear as preliminary exercises for ethnic persecution that will affect all segments of our society without discrimination and reckoning.
A few days ago, news websites quoted Ben Brak, the head of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in the Knesset, representative of the Yesh Atid party, as saying that he is convinced that "the return of the opposition leader (meaning Netanyahu) to power with the "religious Zionism" party will be the beginning of the end, as this is a dangerous alliance. "; After emphasizing the existence of the difference between the two cases, he added, stressing that "Hitler came to power in a democratic way. Building democracy takes place over the years, but it is easy to destroy it." Despite his emphasis on the existence of a difference, his words sparked a storm inside Israel at all levels. Is there a lesson for us in this statement?
I regret that conflicts and quarrels between leaders and activists within the Arab parties are still raging; This is instead of them reviewing the consequences of the defeat that has been achieved, which is a defeat even if some consider it a victory, and informing us of what each “current” of them will do in the face of the imminent danger of fascism. I do not believe, as I wrote in the past, that they have a clear vision that can be transformed into an effective and effective plan of action, and that their slogans go beyond partisan identities only.
I know that instilling hope in people's hearts is the first prelude to their steadfastness and steadfastness, and of course I agree with that. However, hope, no matter how much we cover it with sincere emotions, will not be sufficient to repel the fascist herds whose battalions are preparing to invent a pretext and pounce on our positions. Mixed cities, as they declared, may be the first bastions to be attacked in the near future, and if that happens, the people of the cities will confront them and, of course, will defend "home and honor" valiantly. However, it will not harm the leaders if they remember today what the "dice player" said and think about the soldiers who will pay a price with their lives without knowing who was defeated and who won.