That regime of Jewish supremacy can't transform itself to any sort of democracy, and it won't stop its own genocide. That's why this is on all of us

 Jonathan Ofir

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I've seen Benjamin Netanyahu's speech, opening the Knesset parliament, all 21 minutes.

He called for a unity government (which would naturally exclude Palestinians, that's the point). Then he incited against Palestinians (he calls them Arabs, of course), and against those who would partner with them, because it would be subversive against the state. Then at some point, when he was mentioning that there should be a big investigation of possible election interference (by Qatar, the Arabs of course) then Naftali Bennett, the rival who boasted about killing many Arabs and that there's no problem with that, disrupted.

Bennett asked what about the investigation of the October 7 failure, and what about the 'Qatari agents' in Netanyahu's office (there's a suspicion that close advisors got paid by Qatar to influence the public).

That was supposed to be the 'radical' disruption. Sara Netanyahu got upset from the left, and Itamar Ben Gvir from her left shouted Bennett down, saying that Bennett wants to sit with the Arabs himself, so he should be ashamed of himself.

It was supposed to be dramatic, but I just watched it with a distance of observation, thinking, what a sick place. Bennett is supposed to be the radical. Mansour Abbas sits quietly all through, and is supposed to somehow be protected by some of these Zionist Jews, who really don't mind killing him and his like.

I thought, no hope there, really.

I thought that Netanyahu really is the biggest representation of Israel today, his party Likud got most votes by far (27 seats) and he's right, that the Jewish Israeli public mostly unites around his direction.

I don't know how they'll do it technically, but it's just a fantasy, that the 'bloc of change' is anything of the sort. Gadi Eisenkot, leading the second largest party (Yashar, 21 seats), has several conditions, and although I believe he will eventually compromise on drafting everyone, I don't think he'll compromise on what he calls 'destroying Hamas' military and governing power'. That 'destruction', politically and militarily, has been widely noted to be unattainable. The thing is, that it's not even meant as such - it's just a euphemism for genocide. And Eisenkot promised to do it faster and more effective than Netanyahu - he said last month, that he would just need 18 months for it.

So no, I see no horison for change from within. Even if someone is working for that change within - the pressure needs to be from without. That regime of Jewish supremacy can't transform itself to any sort of democracy, and it won't stop its own genocide. That's why this is on all of us