Op-Ed: Anti Netanyahu Protests Resume in Israel

The Israeli protests resumed for the 17th consecutive week, after the end of the Jewish holidays, and the parliament's return to work, with the beginning of this May.

The protests began with the encroachment of the Israeli extreme right, allied with the religious extremists, who seek together to impose new values, procedures, and laws, which constitute a coup in the course of the colony, transforming it from a state of compatibility with Western European-American values, and making it a new model with internal backwardness and extreme hostility to everything that is: 1 - Non-Jewish, 2- Non-religious, 3- Not adhering to the map of the colony from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River at this stage, and for the next stage, and the required laws, regulations and procedures consistent with this option, with this orientation, with this expansion, and political rejection And religious to retreat from the map of the expansionist colony, and to acknowledge: 1- that unified Jerusalem is the capital of the colony, 2- and that the Palestinian West Bank is Judea and Samaria, i.e. part of the map of the colony through settlement legislation and legality and providing it with all means of survival and development.
The protests by different Israeli segments do not target the political side or demand justice and equality in the 48 areas, or end the occupation and prevent settlement in the 67 areas. Rather, they refuse to impose religious values and the measures of the extreme right on political, social and legal life, i. Palestinians from near or far.
The head of the colony, Isaac Herzog, described what is happening inside Israeli society as the "most serious internal crisis" that has engulfed the colony since its establishment in 1948.

The conflict revolves around the so-called "judicial reform plan" announced by the Likud Minister of Justice to the colonial government of Yelvin. Netanyahu suspended its legislative procedures in parliament at the end of last March, and it will return to the forefront of the Knesset program after the failure of all attempts to cancel it or make any amendment to its content, especially: 1- Limiting the powers of the Supreme Court and curtailing its powers, 2- The government coalition’s control over the appointment of judges, and the aim of this is for Netanyahu to write off the criminal charges he was implicated in, which were leveled against him and their titles: bribery, bad credit and breach of trust.

Protest demonstrations continue on a weekly basis, but this is the second time that the extreme right-wing religious coalition has headed to the street, which witnessed a demonstration in support of the government, to counter the continuation of anti-government protests, which deepened the crisis and exacerbated the division facing Israeli society.

The negative factors surrounding the colony: 1- The Palestinian division, 2- The inter-Arab wars, 3- The world's interest in what is happening in Ukraine and its repercussions, encouraged the state of internal explosion, because the Israelis felt the absence of an enemy targeting them, so the dispute and conflict broke out between: 1- Religious and non-religious, 2- Between Easterners and Westerners, 3- Between the right and the extreme political right, due to the absence of moderate or intermediate trends and the diminishing of their influence.

The colony is now fundamentally different on the internal level than it was before the 25th Knesset elections on 1/11/2022, even if it is still colonial, expansionist, fascist, and racist that practices apartheid against the Palestinians, and it has increased, and it will pay the price for this option, even after a while.