In the Great Hall of the Nation Buildings in Jerusalem, among government buildings and state institutions, between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bank of Israel; The headquarters of the Prime Minister, the Knesset and the Supreme Court of Justice. Thousands of settlers participate in the “Jewish Settlement in Gaza” conference. This was not a gathering of hillbilly boys on some mountain in the West Bank.
This was a gathering of the hill boys who had become ministers and were effectively ruling Israel. Twenty-seven representatives of the government coalition were there, twelve ministers and fifteen members of the Knesset.
Foreign Ministry employees were hearing speeches calling for the return of settlement in Gaza, and Yossi Dagan, head of the settlement council, shouted, “Oslo is dead, the people of Israel are alive,” as if he was saying the king is dead, long live the king, and the new kings of Israel – the settlers, are crowned.
The employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose powers were distributed among five ministries, were watching the fatigue of months of propaganda go to waste with every sentence said on the podium and tomorrow becoming headlines in the international press. Israeli Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknov: “The nations of the world cannot claim that a Jew is taking away the land. We are implementing a divine order.”
At the Bank of Israel and the Ministry of Finance, hundreds of employees were combing through old tax books, retrieving outdated taxes, to finance the cost of a war that politicians say could last for years. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich delays presenting the budget to Parliament until the ninetieth minute to ensure the entry of “coalition funds” and billions distributed among the coalition parties to be distributed to their party institutions, and here he stands on the podium and cannot, and does not try to hide his laughter as he talks about settlements in the Gaza Strip and the settlement that It brings security, and the necessity of returning to the Gaza settlement. One of the employees heard him and said: The price of meat, fish, and chicken will rise by 30% next week, according to the data.
At the Prime Minister’s Office, an aide was reprinting last Saturday’s speech by the Prime Minister, putting a date on it for next Saturday and underlining the sentence, “A strong prime minister must know when to say no to America!” He muttered to himself, but he could not say no to Ben Gvir, and he smiled briefly, and Ben Gvir was on the podium shouting, “Fleeing brings defeat. It is time to return to Gush Katif and the settlements in the northern West Bank, Mr. Prime Minister – the mission of courageous leadership is to make courageous decisions.” He added: We must propose a moral and practical solution to the humanitarian problem: encouraging immigration and the death penalty,” while two young settlers were raising a huge banner in front of him that read: Transfer is the solution.
In the Knesset, members of parliament from the Likud Party were preparing their papers in preparation for the historic session in which the law to dismiss a member of the Knesset will be implemented, where they will vote to dismiss left-wing Knesset member Ofer Kassif because he signed an anti-war petition, when they received a comment from the “There is a Future” party headed by opposition leader Yair Lapid. On the conference near them: “The Likud Party, which was getting up and leaving the parliament hall at the time of Kahane’s speeches, is now rising up to dance to the tunes of Kahane’s extremist heir at a political conference to settle Gaza. You have lost your way.”
In the Supreme Court of Justice – against which the right-wing attacks declined slightly after the Hamas attack on October 7, the judges were talking about the former president of the court, Aharon Barak, and what he had done as a judge at the court in The Hague, when they saw a huge map presented at the conference showing the Gaza Strip full of settlements and devoid of land. The Palestinians, the settlements of Beit Lahia, Gaza City and Khan Yunis, remind the judges that Israel must report to the International Court of Justice on the steps it has taken against calls for ethnic cleansing.
On the sidewalk adjacent to the “Rose Garden” in the very middle, there are a few tents for the families of detainees in Gaza. They decided to sit in there to plead with the government to make a deal. They set up their tents and spent the night in them while the Jerusalem municipality decided to remove the tents because they obstruct the road – the road to the Prime Minister’s Office or the road to… Gaza settlement.
This is what the nights in Jerusalem look like a year after the formation of Netanyahu’s historic government, the “pure right-wing government.”
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2024-01-29 03:06:21