Netanyahu Can Smell Total Victory - Over Israel

The smugness exuding from coalition lawmakers' speeches signals that by the end of the Knesset's winter session, Israel will be even less tolerant, and more racist, corrupt, and oppressive than it already is. One thing will remain unchanged: the ultra-Orthodox still won't serve in the army.

Yossi Verter
Oct 29, 2024

The last sentence of the opposition leader's speech to the opening of the Knesset's winter session perfectly described the scene in the house. "You no longer have any shame," Yair Lapid told cabinet ministers. That was an understatement, almost British-style.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers were savoring the very fact that they're still in power a year after the disaster of October 7, 2023. And the opposition seemed defeated before the session even began.

Netanyahu and Co. celebrated their total victory on Monday. It was a victory over the norms demanding that they take responsibility for the massacre, over moral values, over statesmanlike behavior, over the decisive majority of Israelis who have lost faith in them and over the hostages' worn-out families, who have gotten a cold shoulder from most members of the governing coalition.

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Source : Haaretz