Daily News | On Israel’s 75th anniversary, are Jewish citizens losing their democracy under Prime Minister Netanyahu?
, last Monday, the lead pilot on an El Al flight to New York made this astonishing announcement on takeoff from Ben Gurion airport: “Things like the Holocaust can potentially occur in a dictatorship, and we’re fighting in Israel to remain a democratic country. Thank you all and have a nice flight.”
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have poured into the streets each week for over three months, in cities across the country, to protestby the governing coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s no wonder that the largest banner I saw at the huge protest in Tel Aviv on April 15 proclaimed “Crime Minister,” a slogan also emblazoned on many black t-shirts. Netanyahu’s opponents believe the judicial coup is basically meant to save him from jail.
Demonstrators keep returning week after week because they are truly frightened about their immediate political future and the future of their children. “Most outsiders don’t realize how deep and wide are the rifts in Israeli society,” I was told by Ami Ayalon, a former head of the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence service, who is one of a group of formerthat supports the demonstrations. “It is not even the legal reforms anymore. We have reached the point where we don’t agree on anything, on what is good or bad, allowed or not, on even what is the meaning of ‘Jewish democracy.
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