Arab citizens and LGBTQ+ community fear return of veteran leader will damage democracy
, could seal the fate of a possible two-state peace compromise with the Palestinians.
Concerns over where Netanyahu and his ministers are headed were heightened earlier this week with the publication of coalition agreements and guidelines that call for annexation of the West Bank with the timing yet to be determined, mass regularisation of illegal settlement outposts, and amending an anti-discrimination law in a way that would allow doctors and other providers toThe government also declared it a priority to pass legislation enabling the Knesset to override supreme court...
This year has already seen some of the worst West Bank violence since 2015 as Israeli forces have cracked down on Palestinian unrest and militant attacks. “This country was built by secular people, some of them atheists, with their feet on the ground – people without delusional ideas. If this messianic path is what we’re going on, God help us,” he said.Smotrich, 42, will gain wide influence over the future of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. A strict nationalist with anti-Arab and homophobic views, Smotrich told an interviewer recently that Israel’s economy will flourish if people “obey” Jewish religious law.
Last year, he told Arab Knesset members that their presence in Israel is a “mistake” emanating from former Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion “not finishing the work” of throwing out all Palestinians.Considered by many to be the most dangerous politician in the country, Ben-Gvir has advocated expelling “disloyal” citizens in a barely concealed reference to Israel’s Arab minority population.
A settler in the Wadi Hilweh neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem, which he views as the cradle of biblical King David’s kingdom, Maoz, 66, espouses a state guided by ultra-conservative Jewish religious principles in which the chief rabbinate is a fully fledged branch of the government. Noam campaigned by stoking hatred of the LGBTQ+ community and Reform Jews, who are adherents of the most liberal branch of the faith and the largest denomination in the US.
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