Israeli anger at Netanyahu [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on violence/abuse/war. Reader discretion is advised]

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Prior to the tragedy of 7^th October, Netanyahu was not popular - his authoritarian changes to that nation’s judiciary were resisted by protests involving tens of thousands, he was (and still is) facing corruption charges, and he made deals with the far right to stay in power. 

Despite Israel understandably drawing together - as so many other nations have - when they faced an external threat, Netanyahu has still not been popular. 

And that brings us to this: 

“Israel confirms deaths of six hostages after IDF finds bodies in Gaza | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/family-confirms-death-of-hostage-hersh-goldberg-polin-after-idf-finds-bodies-in-gaza   “IDF says Hamas killed captives shortly before bodies found, as families’ group accuses Netanyahu of ‘abandoning’ abductees   ...   Unnamed Israeli security officials were quoted in the Israeli press on Sunday blaming Netanyahu’s insistence on holding on to strategic territory in Gaza as the principal obstacle to a deal. The Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, issued a statement calling for the cabinet to reverse a vote on Thursday to retain control of the Philadelphi corridor, along Gaza’s border with Egypt”     

Throughout Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza, there has been tension between the families of those abducted (not all Israeli, by the way - some were agricultural workers from Thailand) and Netanyahu/Netanyahu’s government.

These recent events have now led to this: 

“Protests in Israel and strike called amid eruption of outrage over Gaza war | Israel | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/protests-israel-strike-eruption-outrage-gaza-war   “An estimated 100,000 protested in Tel Aviv while others demonstrated in Jerusalem as pressure on the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to reach a ceasefire deal to bring the remaining hostages home reached a new peak   ...   the findings pointing to H____ executions did little to deflect widespread fury towards Netanyahu and his rightwing coalition for failing to agree a US-backed hostages-for-peace deal with H____, which has been on the negotiating table since late May   ...   the leader of the Histadrut trade union federation, Arnon Bar-David, said: “... We are no longer one country”   ...   The last time Histadrut called a general strike, in March last year, it was triggered by Netanyahu’s sacking of Gallant for his opposition to the prime minister’s plans to limit the power and independence of the supreme court.”     

This is a potentially significant moment - not only for the war in Gaza and Netanyahu’s government, but for the nature of Israel. 

I hope all involved choose wisely ... 

PS - I have written some thoughts about learning from a spiritual perspective, based on these events, on my main blog. If you might be interested, you can see those at: 

“Post No. 2,869 - learning “the hard way””   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2024/09/post-no-2869-learning-hard-way.html     

 

 

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• this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

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• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
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