It looked more like a crowd of a political rally. But as thousands of masked and socially distanced Israelis at a Tel Aviv anti-corruption demonstration in Rabin Square gathered on Sunday denied a number of opposition politicians the impression that this was performance art. Israel was again embroiled in December 2018 so far in a political crisis, known as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu only early elections when he faced corruption charges. Three subsequent studies have failed to provide a decisive victory for Netanyahu or his rivals, and although the longest serving leader of Israel was, was formally charged entangled in negotiations 11 hours to form a new government, as the protests took place . Monday ‘, Netanyahu and his political rivals Benny Gantz signed a coalition agreement that serve the turn of the Premiership with Netanyahu to participate in the first 18 months. His critics accuse him of hanging at undermining the democratic institutions of Israel in a bid for power. “A person without head of police charges, a prosecutor, an advocate general, the court may appoint the deal with his case. This is the list of Netanyahu’s claims,” opposition legislator Yair Lapid told the assembled crowd. “That’s how democracies die in the 21st century. They are not destroyed by tanks free of Parliament wheel. They die from within.” Lapid defected last month from blue and white opposition party after its leader Benny Gantz has accepted chairman of the Israeli parliament to serve, widely interpreted as a precursor step to share power with Netanyahu. Lapid was introduced to express their opposition to the anti-democratic movements Netanyahu, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, one of about 2,000 people who attended the show “Black Flag” in Rabin Square. Protesters have been carefully two meters away, but the social distancing measures were not the only thing that is true for the protest. It brought together a diverse group with former members of blue and white, including Lapid and Moshe Ya’alon Netanyahu ex-defense in addition to left-wing activists and lawmakers as Ayman Odeh, a coalition of four conductors dominated Arab-Israeli parties that Netanyahu It has as to portray tried “supporters of terrorism” “is not easy for me, including some of the speakers to be here tonight, but we need to see the main thing -. only by an Arab-common Jewish struggle, we are able to have success “, the protesters Odeh said, adding that the crisis presents” a great opportunity for a large Arab-Jewish front for peace and democracy. ” “That all groups and causes, the call is out for Israeli democracy, which in these days of Netanyahu and” Shaqued Morag, CEO damaged his allies in the anti-occupation group Peace Now says now. Morag says he sees Netanyahu’s plan annexed swaths Palestinian territories-a move President Trump Greenlit in January, as the main threat to Israeli democracy. But other demonstrators concentrated on cases of corruption of Netanyahu and the blue and white leaders Benny Gantz, who negotiated with Netanyahu after he vowed not serve in a government under a prime minister out process. Like many other world leaders, Netanyahu has enjoyed a recent surge in popularity. In a survey in late March, the majority of Israelis said they approved of his handling COVID-19 This included one of the first world leaders to impose compulsory quarantine of all foreign arrivals. But his transitional government has also introduced controversial new measures in response to the pandemic. Among them is a new law that allows the internal security agency of the country, the Shin Bet, mobile phones believed to be to keep track of people in contact with COVID-19 has arrived. For lawyers for human rights, the law, the parliamentary debate, no out-is a potentially dangerous expansion apparatus status monitoring. “We see it as a way in which job losses in the West Bank to Israeli society,” says Morag Peace Now. “These are the tactics that are used to govern civic space with military technology.” In addition to the popularity of cross-COVID 19 crisis he has purchased Netanyahu several other political advantages will delay his corruption trial, starting on March 17 had been scheduled; for the formation of an “emergency government” intensified its calls to navigate the pandemic. Late March Gantz and Netanyahu the proximity of a power-sharing would have to agree that Netanyahu would be allowed to stay up to September 2021 the prime minister, is accused of Gantz cancellation of a pre-election promise to work with the leader of Likud. then it took several days to fail Netanyahu that the agreement in each case, a number of requirements imposed on the last minute. Netanyahu asks now also has the power to appoint a police chief prosecutor and the attorney general said protesters Yapid to compare the deterioration of democracy in Israel for the process that took place in Hungary and Turkey. “They say, ‘We are fighting from within würden.’Sie not fight from within,” Lapid said in a speech that appeared his former colleagues in the running target Gantz. “You do not fight corruption from within. If inside, six of them a part of.”
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