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Tuesday, March 19th, 2024

The Earthquake That Could Shatter Netanyahu’s Coalition

Author:     Yair Rosenberg
Source:     Reader Supported News / The Atlantic
Publication Date:     17 march 24
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Stephan:  

In my view, Benjamin Netanyahu and his fascist cabinet should be indicted and tried for war crimes against humanity. They are carrying out an attempt at genocide, and as an American, I am ashamed that Biden is still supplying the weapons to carry out much of this devastation. The U.N. children’s agency said on Sunday “Over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza in Israel’s offensive, adding many kids were suffering from severe malnutrition and did not even have the energy to cry.” Because I am so appalled by what Israel is doing I have been researching to see how Netanyahu might at least be forced from office, which might stop these atrocities. Like Trump, Netanyahu is under indictment in Israel, but that doesn’t look like it is going anywhere. What might make his government collapse is something unique to Israel as this report describes.

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify.
Credit: Ilia Yefimovich / Getty

The most controversial Israeli comedy sketch of the current war is just 88 seconds long. Aired in February on Eretz Nehederet, Israel’s equivalent of Saturday Night Live, it opens with two ashen-faced officers knocking on the door of a nondescript apartment, ready to deliver devastating news to the inhabitants. The officers are greeted by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man who is similarly stricken when he sees them.

“I’ve been terrified of this knock,” he says. “Ever since the war began, I knew it would eventually come for me.” But before the pained officers can continue, he interjects: “Listen, there is no situation in which I will enlist—forget about it.”

It turns out that the officers have the wrong address. This is not the home of a fallen soldier, but of one of the many thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews who do not serve in Israel’s army, thanks to a special exemption. As the officers depart to find the right family, the man calls after them, “Tell them that we prayed for him! We did everything we could.”

The gag […]

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