Netanyahu has seen his popularity plummet in opinion polls since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that sparked the devastating war in Gaza.
Anti-government protests that shook the country for much of 2023 have largely subsided during the war. Still, demonstrators again took to the streets of Tel Aviv Saturday night calling for new elections, which are not scheduled until 2026.
The crowd was much smaller than last years’ mass protests, numbering a few thousand, according to local media.
“I’d like to say to the government that you’ve had your time, you ruined everything that you can ruin. Now is the time for the people to correct all the things, all the bad things that you’ve done,” said one protestor, his head wrapped in an Israeli flag.
It’s also how we make sure democracy as a practiced concept doesn’t perish from the reach of humanity under the weight of oligarchs with unlimited money from Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, North Korea, and Russia.
They’re not perfect and I’ll vote against them and fight them in court whenever possible but I’ll take the oligarchs from America, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, the European Union, Australian, Southy Korea, Norway, and Japan, any fucking day. Shout-out to anyone practicing democracy, New Zealand, that I’m forgetting that let’s people vote on public policy and leadership, oh yeah Israel obviously, too. Special shout-out to France also, an original partner.
E: Southy Africa in the mix since '96.
You said before that you cannot be a democracy and an apartheid state at the same time
Ok then, I guess Israel is not a democracy by your own logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_apartheid
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Of course I expect a wall of text full of denial and beating around the bush, but that’s fine…