"The words that follow are inadequate to describe what’s playing out in Israel right now. ... It’s like we’ve been taken over by a deranged, masochistic demolition squad. Except that the Jewish supremacists in the coalition know exactly what they’re doing. And the prime minister who empowered them is dissembling as Israel implodes, fanning the flames as the country burns....
The dire predicted reality is now unfolding — as rapidly and dangerously as in the gloomiest of my pieces. - David Horowitz, Founding editor and head of the Times of Israel
[MS: David Horowitz is among the most sober and trusted journalists about Israel. On August 2, 2023, he published in the lead editorial a dire and urgent warning about the emergency in Israel - indeed the clear and present danger to the continued existence of the State of Israel as we know it since its founding in 1948. This must gives us a shock of awakening and a call to action.]
Much of the Editor's Note is like the following excerpt, with ample supporting evidence:
"Further declared overhaul legislation will radically constrain that future politicized judiciary from striking down undemocratic and abusive laws even if it wants to.
And (as I’ve written ad infinitum) bills already submitted for potential future passage seek to do everything from ...
legalizing discrimination based on religious beliefs,
annexing parts or all of the West Bank without equal rights for Palestinians,
restricting media,
constricting women’s rights,
exempting the ultra-Orthodox from military and national service,
weakening the attorney general,
and giving the coalition the right to ban rival political parties.
....
And so, with Netanyahu unyielding and defiantly unperturbed, ... we return to the hunt for four or more patriotic Zionists in the coalition — four or more men and women to vote against the next legislative salvoes, or at least eight to abstain, and thus deny the government the majority with which it intends to wreak still more havoc."
[MS: Copyright material; formating, emphasis and additions are added.]
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