The Massively Well Funded Protest Movement in Israel

 The massively well-funded protests against the plans for Judicial Reform are super organized and coordinated with mass media in Israel in order to literally drive the masses into hysteria, no matter what the ramifications. On this level, they are clearly succeeding.

The protest organizers are succeeding in giving off the impression of a country that is split down the middle on the question of Israel’s future. Should Israel be a western democratic State or a primitive religious country that tramples on the supremacy of law? That is what they want you to think this is all truly about.

What is it really about? Power, jealousy and yes, it is also about the rule of democracy vs. the rule of the mob.

The protesters are well-funded, in the tens of millions of dollars, with one clear goal in mind – to bring down Netanyahu and the right-wing – whatever the cost. The left wing of Israel dominated Israeli politics from 1948 till 1977, and has never truly accepted that in 1977, everything changed. The silent majority of Sephardic Jews, Jews from Arab Lands, shifted to the right in a tectonic shift that has stood until today. From 1977 till 1996, the left-wing did rise to power twice. But both times, it was a with a razor thin majority or via a tie in the general elections.

Afterwards, the only truly left-wing Prime Minister that was elected in an election that was clearly won by the left was Ehud Barak. He presided over a terrifying and embarrassing few years of constant terror across the State of Israel by Arab terrorists. He was unable to restore any sense of calm or order – for years. Thousands of Israelis were killed with weapons that the previous left-wing government under Yitzhak Rabin had supplied them. All of this was done with the clear support of the completely politicized judiciary that cleared the way of any legal obstacles to arming Israel’s enemies. Was the Judiciary actually responsible? Yes.

Barak was democratically kicked out of office in the next election in a massive shift to the right. Israel was fed up with the weakness of left-wing leaders, and would never elect a left-wing Prime Minister till today. It has been 20 years. The left wing of Israel knows this. They can’t win democratically anymore because 65-70% of Israel’s Jewish population is right-wing. Netanyahu’s reputation as a strong leader has allowed him to be reelected time and again into the seat of the Prime Minister. Ehud Barak has been jealous of this for decades.

The battle today is indeed about power and is driven by jealousy. But at its core, it is a culture war. The protesters don’t care as much about democracy as they care about losing power. They support a secular, non-Jewish country, and are willing to be violent and fight their own brethren in order to not lose control. Only one side truly cares about the unity of the Jewish people. That side will win, but only when they overtake the left-wing’s massive PR battle.

There are many examples of interference by the judiciary without any legal backing

1. When politicians make a political appointment that the legal system disagrees with the legal system cancels the appointment.

2. When politicians try to fire someone that the legal system disagrees with the legal system freezes the termination.

3. When right-wing elected governments want to pass laws that the activist-leftist judicial system disagrees with, the legal system kills the bill during the legislative process or has the Supreme Court annul the law.

4. When a left-wing elected government makes an international decision without Knesset approval even though according to law it requires Knesset approval the legal establishment approves the deal without problems.

5. While Israeli law forbids terror-supporters from serving in Israel’s parliament the Supreme Court constantly allows terror-supporting Arab Muslim representatives to serve in Israel’s parliament.