Fill the Streets of Israel and Make It Known: Netanyahu Must Go

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the greatest disaster to befall Israel since its establishment. Five months have passed since October 7, but Netanyahu and his partners still haven’t seen fit to accept responsibility.

Quite the contrary. He and his government have used the time since then to incite against the defense establishment in an attempt to shift the blame onto it. The army certainly played a major role in the failure, but it didn’t set the criminal policies of bolstering Hamas, weakening the Palestinian Authority and destroying Israel in an attempt to enact a judicial overhaul.

The report of the inquiry commission into the fatal stampede at Mount Meron in 2021, which was released this week, once again revealed Netanyahu’s culture of lies, negligence, flight from responsibility and capitulation to special interests at the expense of human life. These are the elements that have rotted Israel in the Netanyahu era.

And his Likud party’s response to the report made it clear that nothing has changed since that disaster, not even in the wake of October 7. Netanyahu and his irresponsible government can’t see human beings even from a meter away, and they don’t have a drop of compassion in their hearts. His poison machine was even employed against the hostages’ families, and the return of their loved ones has been portrayed as being in conflict with national security.

Meanwhile, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, the architect of the judicial overhaul, is still trying to advance its goals – subordinating the judiciary to the executive branch and removing the checks and balances that are essential to democracy. It’s no accident that he recently delayed the appointments of two judges who, in the far right’s view, aren’t nationalist enough.

The political persecution of Arab citizens of Israel, and of Jewish citizens who call for ending the war or are affiliated with the anti-government protests, is typical of regimes that have adopted dictatorial elements. In this atmosphere, it’s no wonder that the Israel Prize is being denied to someone who was active in the protests and attempts have been made to oust Knesset members who don’t toe the line.

In the background of all this is Netanyahu’s trial. Even during wartime, Israel is being dragged in the wake of a criminal defendant. His refusal to hold a serious discussion of postwar arrangements for the Gaza Strip and his insistence on the ridiculous goal of “total victory” increase the “fear that he’s making decisions on the basis of his personal interests rather than the national interest,” as Netanyahu himself once said when he was demanding that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resign because of the criminal investigations against him.

There has never been a more burning need to flood the streets, resume the anti-government protests and demand early elections. Netanyahu and his irresponsible government must go.

Source: Haaretz

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