Israel under Dictator PM Netanyahu (video)

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez (DN!); Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Palestinians to pay the price as corrupt dictator PM Netanyahu pauses judicial plan while empowering Far Right

(Democracy Now!) Latest shows. March 28, 2023. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [still in court facing corruption charges after being ousted from office and now reinstated almost certainly with help from the CIA] has agreed to delay a push to overhaul and weaken Israel's judiciary until the next parliamentary session.

The retreat came after months of unprecedented mass protests and a general strike on Monday [3/27/23] that shut down much of Israel.

PM Netanyahu had earlier fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for suggesting a delay to judicial changes.

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In a concession to his far-right governing allies, PM Netanyahu has also agreed to establish a new national guard under the control of ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who was once convicted of racist incitement against Palestinians and supporting a terrorist group.

"He already has an immense amount of power over police forces that regularly inflict violence on Palestinians. Now there is talk of him having this national guard," journalist Natasha Roth-Rowland, an editor with _+972 Magazine_, says of Ben-Gvir.

Democracy Now! also speaks with Palestinian American analyst Yousef Munayyer, who says the public outrage over the judicial plan is due to many Israelis seeing their own rights threatened for the first time.

"The rights of Palestinians…have not been upheld by these courts for a very long time," says Munayyer.

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