'If and when the new intifada erupts, it will present opportunities for this government to take more extreme actions than ever before against the ...
GWYNNE DYER: Netanyahu willing to hand over Israel’s democracy and risk unrest just so he can remain free
The new Israeli government will not strive officiously to head off this disaster because it will distract domestic and international opinion enough to permit a very large expansion of the Jewish settlement project in the occupied West Bank. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to chair a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on Feb. 5. - Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool via REUTERS
It is durable because 62 per cent of Jewish Israelis now identify as right-wing and the trend is ever further to the right. It is radical because Bibi was compelled to bring in extreme right parties, previously excluded from all governing coalitions, in order to win a majority in the fifth election last November.
Bringing the extreme right into his coalition not only gave him the numbers in the Knesset. It also gave him a contingent of cabinet colleagues who were as keen as he was to end the independence of the courts. However, Netanyahu is a wily and treacherous politician. He may be deceiving them on the annexation issue, for he is far more aware than they are of the extent to which Israel depends on American support. He has stopped at the brink of annexation on several previous occasions.
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