This paragraph was fascinating to me:

One of Hamoud’s recent articles, titled “The fascist state is materializing,” mentioned the blacked-out front pages of Israel’s largest newspapers that were published to protest the passing of the first law of the judicial overhaul (the pages were in fact paid for by the hi-tech workers in the protest movement). According to Hamoud, “this mourning is nothing but an expression of the desire of the white colonialists from the liberal Zionist society to continue killing Palestinians and robbing them of their land, as they have done until now, under the immunity of the Supreme Court and in accordance with the standards of the International Criminal Court.”

This is a point that I haven’t heard enough, at least in here in Israel, and sounds kinda conspiratorial, but it makes perfect sense: the existence of Israel’s Supreme Court is used to create the impression of a functioning democracy, or at the very least an attempt to create one. All things considered, they aren’t actively fighting the occupation itself, but rather occasionally prohibit some of its crimes, mostly related to destroying homes of Palestinians who committed reprisals.

The insane point is that despite the Supreme Court’s complacency, its impact has been overly stressed by the right, and it’s considered a blocker for occupying the rest of the west bank. They don’t seem to consider the important functionality of it: helping us pretend we’re not recklessly abusing Palestinians. The polite right (the one currently protesting to keep the Jew-only democracy) seems to understand it, I guess that’s one of the reasons they’re fighting. It’s just a bit puzzling that the impolite right doesn’t. Seems like self-destruction

This point is explored in the movie “The Law in These Parts” which I highly recommend.

Thoughts? ;)