What did you do when Netanyahu demolished Israel’s democratic institutions?

For followers of Israel, these are exciting days: Netanyahu’s immense corruption, his systematic break-up of the country’s democratic institutions and, of-course, his total mismanagement of Covid, have brought about what may be some kind of a civil war. More and more Israelis are out in the streets demanding Netanyahu’s removal. To prevent demonstrations calling for his removal, Netanyahu has placed the whole country under draconian quarantine rules geared specifically to prohibit demonstrations.

 

Like a trapped mouse, desperate Netanyahu is hysterically trying to find a way to avoid jail. The date for his trial, for the first of several corruption cases, has been set and if found guilty he is likely to end up in jail.

 

In recent days, the Israeli police, taking its orders from an especially Netanyahu-subservient and nasty minister, Ohana, have been violently attacking demonstrators in an unprecedented manner – at least unprecedented in the violence vis-à-vis Israel’s Jewish population. Violence against Arabs is not that unusual.

 

One can but hope that the stamina of the demonstrators will prevail. Anyone not out in the streets may in future be asked by his or her grandchildren “what did you do when Netanyahu demolished Israel’s democratic institutions?”