Netanyahu's Absolute Victory is Turning Into Israel's Absolute Nightmare

100,000 Israelis take to the streets to protest Netanyahu's refusal to make a deal after 6 Israeli captives were found dead in Gaza. Who are they? And is this the beginning of change in Israel?

Protest in Tel Aviv this evening

The discovery of 6 dead and young Israeli captives sent much of Israeli society into shock, anger, and frustration. Almost a year after it started, Netayau’s mega-war cannot be sold as a success to anyone, and the continued losses, fear, and state of emergency are sending Israelis into despair.

Watching the multiple big protests in Israel this evening, and in light of tomorrow’s planned general strike (I say ‘planned’ because a war with Hezbollah may break between now and then, in which case it will be automatically canceled) declared by the country’s largest workers’ union, one might be given the impression things may be advancing in the direction of change.

Well, they’re not, for a number of reasons.

First, Israel is a place where things don’t change. Culturally and politically, things have been precisely the same here for the better part of a century. The racism, the victimhood, the self-importance, the narcissism - all is the same as it ever was. Language and the landscape have changed, but the people live the exact same story and view the world in the exact same way. The Jews are in danger, the Arabs are scheming barbarians, and the world hates us. That’s it. That’s all you have.

That’s the triumph of Zionist ‘management of consciousness ‘, and that will be its defeat: those who don’t adapt get swept aside.

A second reason why no change is coming is the style of the demonstrations. No rule is broken, and no politically meaningful unruliness will be recorded. No one is quitting their military service, and no siege will be laid to any of Netanyahu’s houses. They will march and shout some, a road or two will be blocked for a short while, and police will make some arrests. That’s it.

The political identity of the protesters is another quite convincing reason why no change may be anticipated. You’ll see in this short video what I mean; I’ll just add that the group and sociodemographic section of Israeli society that protests today is very much the same as the one that protested Netanyahu’s legal reform a few years ago. They are Israel’s Democrats: white, urban, affluent, ‘educated‘, and so on. They form the hegemony in Israel’s hi-tech, science, research, academia, and prestigious medical professions. When they are from the kibbutzim they own the lion's share of Israel’s farm, commercial, and industrial lands. They are the most ZIonist of them all.

Last year, the CIA’s 60 Minutes (I’m joking, it could be another deep state apparatus) dedicated an episode to the wave of anti-Netanyahu’s-legl-reform protests. One of the main groups organizing those protests was Brothers in Arms (I kid you not, that’s their official name), which was meant to give the protests a ‘strong on national security‘ appeal.

When I watched that short clip last year I was so upset I made a video about it in which I was on the verge of tears from beginning to end. It broke me. Here it is

Do you understand why I say expect no change?

What’s next?