id":42724695,"user":"xg15","time":1737033448,"time_ago":"3 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42722937 said, I was referring to the judicial reform and the gradual erosion of civil rights that the current government is driving forward within Israel, not in the occupied territories.

This is an intra-Israeli conflict that is (mostly) independent of the Israel-Palestine conflict (and also of the question how democratic a state is anyway that keeps ~50% of its inhabitants under permanent military rule). It falls more in line with the other shifts towards populist or authoritarian governments we have seen in the West. (Trump, Orban, Erdogan, etc)

It does have a unique Israeli flavor to it though, which does circle right back to Israel/Palestine: That the political force that's driving this authoritarian shift forward is closely associated with the settler movement and the most extreme voices regarding the Palestinians. This was also the case before the war - however, they took the war as opportunity to further erode civil rights, e.g. free speech and manipulate institutions such as the police.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Natio...

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-10-21/ty-article-ma...

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-06-13/ty-article-ma...","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"url":"item?id=42724695"}

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