The right leads an unprecedented Israeli consensus in its hostility to the Palestinians

Written by: Suleiman Abu Irshaid

In vain, Naftali Bennett is trying to save his crumbling government, his crumbling party, and his crumbling popularity as prime minister, by escalating the aggressive policies of strengthening settlements and unleashing the hands of settlers and the occupation army and police forces, against the Palestinians in the West Bank, the interior, and Jerusalem, which was manifested in its ugliest form in the provocative so-called “flag march” that It revealed the consensus and unity of an Israeli state that brought together the left, the right, the army and the settlers in everything related to the perpetuation of the occupation and the consolidation of the apartheid regime.

He tries in vain, because his insistence on passing the "flag march" along its original path from the Damascus Gate and penetrating the Old City, and what that required in mobilizing thousands of heavily armed police and Israeli soldiers to protect the participating settlers, did not even give him the honor of inviting the "Merkaz Harav" celebration, which constitutes the culmination of what Known as "Quds Day", while Netanyahu was invited to it along with the President of the State of Israel, Isaac Herzog, not to mention that the result of the poll conducted by the journalist, Amit Segel, the day after the event, confirmed the existence of a majority that believes that his government is based on "supporters of terrorism".

On the other hand, the facts prove that the Bennett-Lapid government is one of the worst Israeli governments and the most extreme with regard to the Palestinian file and the Palestinians in general, including the Palestinians at home. Observers point out that Bennett as a person is the only right-wing prime minister who did not lean towards the center, like Sharon in (disengagement from Gaza) and Olmert in the (Clinton understandings) and Netanyahu in the (Bar-Ilan speech), but he remained on his positions, which became more extreme.

It also brought, perhaps for the first time in the history of Israeli politics, a government supported by the "left" and led by the right, and which has broad and strong opposition from the right as well, in the sense that it made the forces of the right apply to Israeli politics and control its steps and rhythm without any significant opposition, even if that was achieved. Due to the collapse of the left camp and the collapse of its program.

This situation created a strange homogeneity of its kind within Israeli society and between its institutions, and a unified and coherent stance towards the Palestinian issue, not only between the political “right” and “left”, but also between the various compounds of bodies, institutions and units, with which the principle of separation of powers and the executive arms of the institution has vanished. Where the function of the Supreme Court, for example, has become to give legal cover to the decisions of the government, the Knesset and the occupation army, while the judges of the courts of various degrees and in many cases have become fully consistent with the Public Prosecution and even more stringent than them in cases related to the Palestinians, and the police have become more hostile to the Palestinian Arabs than The extremist settlers themselves, so the Palestinians became angry in all cases, like those seeking refuge from ashes with fire.

This is not evidenced by the statements of what is known as the commander of the Shomron Brigade in the Israeli army, Roi Tasweegh, who was recently provoked when a journalist asked him with disapproval that the army and the settlers work together, and he replied that the army and the settlers are one. The place where Abraham received God's promise of the Promised Land, he said.

Or what General Reserve Gershon HaCohen said on Channel 13, the day after what is known as the Israeli “Jerusalem Day”, in which he stated that Al-Buraq Wall, known as the “Wailing Wall”, is only an alternative used by the Jews since the time of Adrianus and during the two thousand years during which they were prevented from climbing to the “Wailing Wall”. the Temple Mount” (the Temple Mount), while the correct place is “the Temple Mount” and there is no substitute for it.

He added, "The question is what do we want, and if we want to be like Denmark, we mean an additional day of calm ... or is what drives us the foundations of the Zionist project that came to save Israel and is more than a prosperous country? We do not want that boring and stinky Scandinavia, but something more." Prosperity, something divine, something biblical, as Jabotinsky wrote, we want to save its source and engine, the “Temple Mount” (the Temple Mount), and without raising the Israeli flag over the “Temple Mount,” our sovereignty over the country cannot be achieved. About "Arab 48"