The Israeli newspaper Haartz considered that the stampede during a Jewish religious ceremony on Mount Meron Al-Jumuk near the city of Safad, in which dozens of Israelis were killed last week, highlights the absence of a unified government in Israel, which consists of a group of autonomous regions linked by fragile strings that form the so-called "Israel".
In an analysis titled "The Mount Meron disaster proves that Israeli sovereignty is an illusion," Zevi Barrell, a Middle East analyst at the newspaper, said that the concept of autonomy that arose with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and was intended to give the Palestinians self-rule within a regional settlement, was just a cover for one goal, which is to prevent Establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
But after the disaster, which was caused by the stampede during the celebration of the Jewish torch relay "Lag Boomer" on Mount Meron near the city of Safad in northern Israel, the concept became a term used for the regional area in which the extremist sects prevail in the mountain and the government is not allowed to enter it, and it has become an independent enclave. It only lacks an independent flag and a national anthem, according to Haaretz's analysis.
The newspaper said that Mount Meron is not an exceptional case, but rather part of a system of autonomy pockets that gradually became similar to the Palestinian enclave system that Israel established in the West Bank to prevent the establishment of a unified Palestinian state.
She explained that these independent government areas can be seen in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of Jerusalem and in the south, where the areas are dominated by Jewish gangs, and in the Arab villages that the Israeli government gave up control over and left its command to armed sub-contractors, and in the settlements that for a long time remained independent areas that formed sub-enclaves Even the settlers who do not belong to it dare not enter it.
She indicated that the Palestinians inside the Green Line cannot rely on the Israeli Federal Police to protect them from the Jewish gangs that operate in their cities, and that the Bedouins in the Negev who wish to study and work realize that there are no authorities to resort to when settler gangs control highways and shoot them indiscriminately. .
Palestinian farmers, worried about Jewish volunteers, also take cover to protect them from settler gangs, because the Israeli army ignores them at best, and usually joins the settlers in attacking them.
Haaretz said that the disturbing reality is that Israel is gradually moving towards Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, where organizations, religions, ethnic minorities and gangs are the real ruler, while the Israeli government extends its control over only select parts.