What is happening in Israel?!

Scenes of continuous protests in the Israeli street for a very long time, and continuing despite the attempts of Benjamin Netanyahu's government to "change the subject" and direct Israeli public opinion to the dangers threatening from "Palestinian terrorism", "Lebanon terrorism" or "Syrian terrorism"... This situation What is new in Israel makes those interested in reading the Israeli scene attach importance to diving into it and analyzing it to find out what is really happening.

The society from which Israel is formed is originally a colonial society of immigrants. Today, the conflict is no longer a political struggle between the left and the right. Rather, it has become a multi-layered struggle, an ethnic, racial, and class struggle, which is an essential dimension related to the Zionist founding project.

It is important to know that the opposition camp in Israel today consists of Western Jews known as the Ashkenazim, who are secular, called the founding group of the state, because they are the ones who established the basic laws and policies of the state, and enshrined the separation of powers and the form and main character of the state. It remains necessary to ask the following question; Who is important in the opposite camp? The so-called New Right, which is represented by the Israeli government today, can be briefly said that it is made up of groups that historically did not contribute to the establishment of the Zionist project, and were in its margins or joined it later, after a period of the date of the establishment of Israel in 1948. They are mainly from the Oriental Jews known as The Sephardim and Mizrahis belong classally to the less fortunate and lower-income classes in Israeli society, and religiously they are considered the most puritanical and the most fundamentalist and conservative. Added to them are the Ethiopian Falasha Jews who feel persecution and discrimination.

Eastern Jews were not part of the first Zionist project to establish Israel, but they came to it later through various organized displacement campaigns from Arab and Islamic countries. At the time of its founding, Israel was made up of Ashkenazi Western Jews at a rate of more than 95 percent of the composition of the population, and therefore with the completion of the arrival of the eastern Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, the State of Israel practically became a country divided in half between the two groups, not forgetting that there is another important group, which is the “Haredi.” »It is the name given to the fundamentalist religious group, a group that was against the Zionist project and its basic project, but in the last moments before the declaration of the Israeli state in 1948, it was agreed between it and the founding Israeli Prime Minister Ben-Gurion to grant them a form of autonomy, in exchange for their participation And their agreement to establish the state.

And the last group, which is very important and influential, is the group of settlers, and it is very important, because it is the one that leads the new right. Its importance lies in the fact that religious Zionism has historically been marginalized, weak, and small, and it was not nationally extremist, unlike the Haredim group. And this group of settlers deeply believes that the turn now has come to achieve the “salvation of the land” to fulfill the Lord’s promise of Greater Israel after the fulfillment of the “slave’s salvation” and their salvation on the Promised Land, after the concern of religious discourse was such as preserving the customs of the Sabbath and the sacred slaughter.

Deep demographic changes remain the most important source of the extreme right's strength. It is a radical shift in the "humanitarian cloth" in Israel. In short, the number of secularists is decreasing sharply, because the ultra-Orthodox Haredim have children in huge numbers, and the secular have few children, and their emigration from Israel to Western countries has become remarkable. The secular, who once made up 95 percent of Israel's population at its founding, barely make up 45 percent of the population today. This massive shift in the "character" of the Israeli state makes it lose the "absolute support" of American Jews, and reduces the historical support of the Democratic Party, to which most members of the Jewish community in the United States belong.

It may seem logical to shed light at this stage on Benjamin Netanyahu, and this would be a mistake, because he is just an opportunistic politician whose cards have been burned, and the same mistake may be made by focusing on the controversial figure, Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, because he is populist, but with a weaker ideology, and relies on agitation and passion.

It is important to focus on the figure of this stage, who is leading the counter-movement in the Israeli street, and he is Bezalel Smotrich, head of the Religious Zionist Party (religious settlement extremism). He is religious, nationalist, and it is very clear that the weaker classes represent his ideological backbone, and behind him are rabbis who read, look and present to him the opinions of the Torah and the Talmud.

Israel is changing violently from within and its society is threatened by existential confrontations. In agreement with the "Middle East"