No democracy under apartheid
By @
hosh We went up to the demonstration in Jerusalem yesterday. There were said to be 80 - 100,000 which made some people feel hopeful. "The young are beginning to wake up" was something I heard there. But it's not clear that even the large show of people had any real influence. The first stage of the legislation went ahead, after all. Politicians have the quality of being able to convince themselves that they are loved by the people even when everybody's against them.
No democracy under apartheid
Aerial shot of the Knesset, where some fifty thousand protesters have gathered to protest the government's judicial overhaul.Credit: Homi Pozner
Of course, of the 100k people only a small faction carried signs against the occupation - MK Ayman Odeh borrowed one of these from my granddaughter to have his picture taken with it. The sign said "No Democracy with Occupation".
I think a better sign would have been "No democracy under apartheid", though I only thought about this later.
Because that's the situation we are currently in, according to most of the human rights organizations. And the majority of Israelis still have an inability to internalize or admit this. No government is saying it. They are all promoting a two state solution" which is never going to happen. Israel is living under the pretense that it is merely administering the Palestinian territories, despite the obvious fact that it is never going to give them up. In the case of the Oslo Accords "Area A" (the Palestinian cities), it does not even admit to administering them, but those waters are muddy.
