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55 sats \ 3 replies \ @TomK OP 2 Sep \ parent \ on: Protests And Escalating Risks: Is Israel Losing Its Grip in the Middle East? news
Even before October 6 and the Hamas attack, there was massive resistance from the center of society to the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, which wanted to undermine fundamental civil rights with various laws similar to those we see in other parts of the world. This anger has now multiplied in the wake of the gas crisis and takes place in almost daily mass demonstrations on the streets
Tom's right on this. There were protests against "judicial reform", which was declawing the Supreme Court. This has since been nullified - in January, by the courts, but it was part of a wide resistance against the government. After this court decision, if there were no fight, the government would be done, so prolonging the fighting is one of the things that keep it in power.
The protests build on this discontent, but also on the fact that there are still some hostages alive, while the Israeli government killed the majority of them in air strikes (and keeps pretending it wasn't them), and refuses to make a deal. (The condition for their return has always been: stop the genocide, withdraw finally; the IR government insists on only a temporary ceasefire, to go back and continue after it got the hostages back, which of course provides 0 incentive to return them.)
The opposition to the government just proposed executing prisoners to speed up the return of hostages. Literally.
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Where do you get the info about executing prisoners to speed up the return of hostages? Is it from a published newspaper, or something? Not that I don't believe you, I'd just like to see where it comes from.
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https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/09/01/732486/Itamar-Ben-Gvir-Palestine-Gaza-West-Bank-Israel-
they of course already executed lots of people, both in prsons and on the streets.
(quote is from a government minister - from the more radical part of the coalition, so openly radical that even Western countries are now talking about sanctioning him to at least pretend to keep up the facades about "western values" - but that´s the part that effectivly has begun to serve as "the opposition.")
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