The maps of power have been redrawn a Jerusalem. And many in ministries and agencies are packing boxes with their belongings. Soon the offices They will be occupied by new tenants who will be designated by the new majoritythe rude celebrates and prepares to limit the independence of the judiciary from which supreme courtto give free rein settlers and creates long blacklists. After 16 months in opposition and with a bribery case pending Netanyahu – who will be prime minister – he would like to be the first to lend a hand justice. Despite the testimony in the process for corruption that concerns him (who talks about the trend of gifts from billionaires Jews American) become more and more embarrassing – using private villas with his wife, caviar, champagne, cigars and taking gifts in big black suitcases – the post of Prime Minister will open an umbrella for him immunityintended case in Israel only for the post of Prime Minister.
but Bibi he also savors the bitter aftertaste of victory. As happy as he is that he finally got the majority, he is annoyed about it Likud couldn’t add more than a few seats in this election. He knows he is dealing with a large party on his right. Itamar Ben-Gvir it served the purpose of getting the vote for his block, but it gets too intrusive. But regardless determination personallyhis allies of extreme To the right They emerge as winners and darken the scene. The election results put their former fringe groups and extreme ideologies at the center of discourse and the political system Israel.
An alliance of two ultranationalist religious parties, Jewish power and Religious Sionism, forms the third-largest bloc in Israel’s next parliament, bringing power, influence and newfound respectability to the extreme right. Internationally, this risks straining relations Israel with his supporter and benefactors such as United Statesor with new Arab partners like United Arab Emirates United. And it will challenge all remaining claims Israel trying to preserve the possibility of a Palestinian state.
in the west bank occupied, the alliance of Bibi he wants to speed up Jewish settlement and eliminate any semblance of Palestinian autonomy. We want to review the justice system, give politicians more control over the appointment of judges and weaken MPs’ checks and balances. “They want to change the system themselves,” he summarizes Tzipi Livnia former Israeli justice minister, “to change the nature of Israeli democracy”.
The leader of religious Zionism, Bezalel SmotrichHe describes himself as a “proud homophobe,” he said real estate agent Jews They should never sell houses to Arabs and support separate maternity wards for Arab and Jewish women.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, leader of Jewish power, seeks to guarantee legal immunity to Israeli soldiers who shoot Palestinians and deport as many Arabs as possible. In his house – in the notorious settlement of Kiryat Arbawhere the most extreme and xenophobic rabbis teach – hung a portrait Baruch gold stonethe Jewish extremist who killed 29 Palestinians in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994 considers him a hero almost equal to the killer of Yitzhak Rabin.
The meteoric rise of a supporter party is unmistakable Meir Kahanethe rabbi expelled Knesset in the nineties for racism and “teacher of life” for Ben-Gvir. Here politics and ideology have possible implications for the situation of the security. The next cabinet will include politicians who belong to the Jewish department of the state security service Shin Bet has very large files. Now the head of the Shin Bet, Ronen Barand its employees may now have to share sensitive information with those who have monitored them for years.
After years of conspiring against the democratic state, the ultra-right is forced by that state to give them the keys to the entire sancta santorum, including the very delicate issue of internal and external security. There is a leftist selfish maxim that Jews cannot and should not be, fascists you hate To the right. Instead, the Israeli right-wing extremists, like their brethren in other countries, are ultra-nationalists, xenophobes, homophobes who, with false patriotism and superficial religiosity, brand their political rivals as godless citizens.