With each new poll and news story, I think it becomes more and more likely, especially if a ground invasion goes sideways (which it inevitably would), further inflating people's anger.
Yeah, I also don't know if it's so much a coup as it is people turning their backs on likud and their coalition partners and them having to step aside. Like I don't see armed soldiers marching on the Kenesset as much as I see mass protests from civilians.
that's why I describe it as a soft coup - it wouldn't be military officers displacing the government to rule. IT'd be military officers refusing orders and rejecting the legitimacy of netanyahu's administration, collasping the government for normal parliamentary processes to take place.
Maybe. Nothing is scarier than the self-righteous, who think their behavior is justified regardless of cost. No world politician is going to "call"him on his narcissistic victimhood for fear of being branded an anti-semite. Now he has distraction, enemy, and excuse to stay in power. We'll see.
domestic israeli politics is a thing, and more significant than any external pressure. And basically the -entire- country, even people who support him, think this was directly and completely his fault and the fault of the (formerly) popular defense minister. A strict majority want his resignation
Fascists are fundamentally ideologically enforced to be stupid and incapable of changing tactics just because "they start to shitplant and fail". It's been proven time and again for hundreds of years, before we even recognized that vein of right wing power ideology with a distinct name
not for nothing, but given the massive abject failure of both the IDF and israeli security services, plenty of them have a vested interest in pushing him under the bus, too
Assuming past performance &c., the IDF GOs and Mossad (particularly) are still the institutions most in favor of diplomatic track talks with the PA, and would likely take any opportunity to push the Eretz Yisrael types out of power completely.
They're also already in direct conflict. Just before this happened the israeli right was accusing all the intelligence services of being Woke and Deep State for saying the settlers doing pogroms and murders on Palestinians was harming state security.
basically everyone except the air force has a strong interest in saying its all his fault, it's not that we're a paper tiger whose only real strength is big bro sitting over there on the bench in north america while we kick sand in everyone's faces all over the playground
That's where my question came from: If (a big If) young adults in Israel and Palestine are mingling and feel like "global citizens" (a comment made in an interview-CNN or Guardian) then do you think that strategy can work again or has he misjudged?
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