The leaders of the demonstrations are hostile to any appeal to Israel’s Palestinian citizens, turning away Palestinians in earlier demonstrations and enthusiastically and often violently enforcing the ban on Palestinian flags.
The right-wing layers leading the protests call for a general alliance of “democratic forces” on a capitalist, pro-austerity basis, seeking little more than a watering down of the government’s plans for the judiciary and Netanyahu’s removal from office.
His de facto support for Netanyahu is bound up with the dependence of US imperialism on Israel as the guardian of its predatory interests in the resource-rich region and as its subcontractor in its covert war against Iran and its allies.
The numbers testify to the anger and concern over the trajectory of the most right-wing government in Israel’s history. However, the leading lights of the former “government of change” and its supporters are seeking to maintain control, prioritizing the government’s plans to weaken the High Court over broader social, economic and political issues.
Who is going to stop the repressive government of the extreme nationalist, colonial and religious right set up by Benyamin Netanyahu? Its coalition agreement suggests a worst-case scenario. Sylvain Cypel and Ezra Nahmad outline what the latter calls “Israel’s descent into the abyss”. On 30 December 2022, the day after the Israeli parliament ratified the new coalition government, the UN called on the International Court of Justice to render an advisory opinion on “the ongoing violation by (.)