NOVANEWS
This week the Knesset began its summer recess, and its members earned their holiday: in the last days of the previous session, they worked overtime to present various proposals, the common denominator of which was to save the state from its enemies at home.
We will note just a few of them: proposed legislation to render the Islamic Movement illegal; to hold a referendum should the government agree to a peace deal that included retreat from East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights; to condition citizenship on loyalty to the state as a Jewish state; to criminalise citizens who support sanctions and/or a boycott of Israel, including a boycott of settlement products. To all of these and others, we must add the old proposal prohibiting public commemoration of the Naqba.
The face of the Knesset is as the face of its most recent legislation: fascist with a mostly tiny and pathetic opposition. It is no wonder, therefore, that the Knesset finds it difficult to accept a member such as Hanin Zoabi, particuarly as it is not possible – yet? To fire her from the Knesset, so it revokes some of her rights as an elected public official. My heart is with Hanin Zoabi, Jamal Zahalkha, Dov Hanin and the handful of sane persons remaining in Israel’s legislature, who are forced to be in the company of approximately 100 rude and weak minded bullies, who display verbal violence toward them which will sooner or later transform into a real attack.
This is a legislature that we inherited directly from the bloody attack against the residents of Gaza in the winter of 2008/2009. The widespread and almost unified support of the war crimes of Olmert, Barak and Ashkenazi gave birth to a fascist Knesset in which Benjamin Netanyahu sounds like a reasonable statesman and Tzipi Livni a radical leftist.
As a result, the state of Israel is experiencing unprecedented international isolation, and even the “friendly atmosphere” which supposedly characterized the recent meeting between Netanyahu and the US President cannot disguise the discomfort of the White House with Israeli actions. The deadly violence utilized by the army against the Freedom Flotilla shocked the entire world not only because of the numerous dead and injured, but primarily due to the message that Israel wished to convey to the world: we do what we wish, with no consideration for international law, our image or implications for the international community, including strategic partners such as Turkey.
“We showed the world that we are prepared to go crazy,” bragged Tzipi Livni after the slaughter in Gaza, thus proving that there is an inheritance from Golda Meir in that “it doesn’t matter what the goys say, but what the Jews do.” So Meir used to brag and as a result there was, amongst many things, Israel’s defeat in the 1973 “Yom Kippur” war. No doubt another “Yom Kippur: awaits Israel, this one more bitter than the past. This is only a matter of time, and this time it will undoubtedly come from the North.
This is a crazy dash toward the abyss, the end of which is unknown. The Greeks used to say that before destroying their enemies, the gods would drive them mad. The series of laws recently proposed by the Knesset, and the legislative monster which gave birth to them, are the madness before the fall.
Translated to English by the Alternative Information Center (AIC).
