'Yes, Israel is divided. But there is no parity between the two camps. The democratic camp, the demonstrators, are those who make Israel into what it really is,' writes Ephraim Sneh
Sneh is a retired Israeli General, former commander of Israel Air Force elite unit 669, former member of several Israeli cabinets, and former deputy minister of defense.or 32 weeks now, every Saturday evening, hundreds of thousands of Israelis, in more than hundred different locations, are taking to the streets.
Yet, the protests against the anti-democratic overhaul are not subsiding. On the contrary, they are expanding and growing stormier, but the protestors are not violent. The police, however, under National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, are more brutal now. The thousands of Israelis taking to the streets—myself included—are doing so out of love of Israel, out of loyalty to the democratic values of its founders. They are afraid that Netanyahu wants to steal from them the state they fought for, the only place where they want their children to grow up.
I look at the faces of the demonstrators and I know exactly who they are. These are the men and women who give Israel its scientific and cultural excellence, its economic advantages, its military superiority. They are all patriots who care about their country. To interpret their demonstrations as a weakness of Israel is a dangerous mistake.
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