Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 09.12.2025
There are liberal Zionist fools who believe that Netanyahu’s departure will bring about an end to the destruction of the state apparatus that preceded Netanyahu’s current regime. They do not realize that the historical process of the destruction of the State of Israel cannot be reversed, whether it is its collapse, by a very strong military defeat, or the Arab revolution. However, journalist Nehemia Strassler, who does not belong to the Zionist “left” camp, understands that this process cannot be reversed. He writes: “Do you think that Netanyahu’s departure will put an end to the regime coup? You are wrong
The hope that the pardon deal will be implemented and that Netanyahu will retire from political life is like oil in the bones of the “just not Bibi” camp. They are confident that his departure will make it possible to stop the enormous damage he is causing to Israeli society. His departure from the stage will begin a process of healing, lowering the level of hatred, healing the rift in the people, stopping the regime coup and saving democracy. Does this hope have anything to rely on?
Four years ago, Prof. Aharon Barak (on Netanyahu’s behalf) proposed a plea bargain that would have ended the trial and sent Netanyahu into a seven-year retirement. Barak argued that we must “mend the rift in the people.” Barak was sure, and so were many good people, that as soon as Netanyahu left the stage, the crushing of the judicial system would stop and democracy would be saved. After all, Netanyahu’s goal is to escape the trial and risk serving time in prison. Once he achieves this, he will no longer have an interest in continuing to destroy the judicial system.
But the plea bargain was not carried out, and it is impossible to know what would have happened if it had been done. Today, the situation is clearer. After four difficult years of sowing hatred, widening the rift, and deepening the regime coup, the right’s strong desire to crush the judicial system will not stop even if Netanyahu resigns.
Members of his party do not dream of stopping harming the courts, the army, academia and the media. They won’t stop persecuting the judges, and the hatred toward Ashkenazim and the left won’t stop either. As Natan Eshel, Netanyahu’s closest adviser, once said of the Likud members: “They hate everything, we managed to drive them crazy… This hatred is what unites our camp.”
Indeed, Tali Gottlieb, the new face of the Likud, is not asking Bibi for approval for her acts of hatred and trolling. Thanks to them, she came in first place in the primary poll, ahead of Amir Ohana, Moshe Saada and Yisrael Katz. She will continue to demand the attorney general’s resignation and the replacement of the Supreme Court justices, even after Bibi resigns.
David Amsalem, Moshe Saada, Nissim Vattori, Shlomo Karei, and Yariv Levin will also continue to run wild. As far as they are concerned, the attorney general and the president of the Supreme Court are criminals. As far as they are concerned, the police, the State Attorney’s Office, and the judicial system must be weakened and intimidated, so that no one will interfere with them from doing what they want with public property: appointing associates, employing family members, signing tailor-made contracts, distributing jobs to friends, and accepting bribes without fear of being investigated and prosecuted. After all, right now there are nine (!) Knesset members and ministers who are in the process of being investigated or prosecuted. One of them is David Bitan, who is accused of accepting bribes of hundreds of thousands of shekels in seven different affairs[i]”
The State of Israel should not have been established in 1948, even though Ben-Gurion ostensibly agreed to the partition in practice, he stipulated the occupation and the Nakba. In its place, a Palestinian state should have been established from the sea to the river, with the Jews having granted civil rights. It arose because of Stalin’s assistance with weapons and political and diplomatic support. However, historical motion has dialectical laws, one of which is the law of the negation of the negation. What was previously denied will be denied again, and the initial situation will arise, but at a higher level. The colonial settler state will be replaced by a socialist and democratic Palestinian state from the river to the sea as part of a socialist federation of the Middle East.
For Palestine red and free from the river to the sea!
Endnotes:
[i] https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-12-09/ty-article-opinion/.premium/0000019a-fe0d-de90-adfa-fe1d03570000