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- The raging escalation between Israel and Iran, which is fueled by the government of Naftali Bennett - which is facing gradual dismantlement - re-escalated the cumulative escalation launched by the previous Israeli government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu on the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to export internal crises.

The escalation in Gaza escalated with Netanyahu’s failure to install his government, which spanned two years, with instability and internal crises that overshadowed 4 Knesset election cycles. Netanyahu found himself in a confrontation with the Palestinian resistance factions and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the battle of the “Sword of Jerusalem,” from which he emerged undecided, either On the military level or on the political level.

The same scene is repeated with the Bennett government, which is threatened with collapse, in light of the internal disintegration and withdrawals from the coalition, which indicates, according to the Israeli media specialist Yoav Stern, "to the depth of political fragmentation and rift in Israeli society and the lack of consensus or consensus on the truth of the matter." The external dangers looming as before, amid the internal dangers that threaten the future of Israel.”

In response to a question by Al Jazeera Net whether Israel seeks to export its internal crises by raising the level of escalation, he replied, "This is the reality that the Bennett government is trying to contain, as it resorted again to escalate the threat against Iran and re-scare the nuclear project and the threats posed by Hezbollah, in An attempt to re-establish the "common enemy" in the Israeli mentality.

Bennett's government is undergoing internal disintegration and is threatening to collapse (Reuters)

Stern went on to say that Bennett - who is considered more extremist than his predecessor Netanyahu - persisted with threats and the tone of escalation against Iran and Hezbollah in Syria, in an attempt to export his government's internal crises and create a state of war and beat its drums through the media, in an effort to support his government with parties from the opposition camp. led by Netanyahu.

The positions and estimates of Israeli researchers and analysts regarding the efficacy of raising the level of tension in an effort to export internal crises varied, which is the approach - as the researcher at the "Begin-Sadat" Center for Strategic Israeli Studies says, Major General Reservist Gershon Hacohen - "which successive Israeli governments have become accustomed to", but he ruled out adopting The Bennett government takes the same approach, noting that the "tone of escalation" touches the scale of the challenges and the regional reality.

Hacohen explained to Al Jazeera Net that the Bennett government is the weakest in the history of Israeli governments and seemed fragile and unstable from the moment it was formed, which reflects the crisis of governance that is intertwined with internal crises and burning regional files, most notably the blockage of the horizon for solving the Palestinian issue, the Iranian nuclear project, the Iranian military positioning in Syria and arming Hizb allah.

And the Israeli weakness is expressed in the behavior of the Israeli leadership towards the Palestinians and some Arab and Islamic regimes, instead of showing strength and Israeli thunder, saying that “the Israeli public feels the weakness of the leadership, as the Jews lived in the Diaspora with existential anxiety, and today they live the same anxiety in the homeland.” .

With the escalation of the escalation between Israel and Iran and its transfer to other arenas such as the Turkish arena and its expansion in Syria, and the exchange of threats with Hezbollah on the Lebanese front, we review in the following a series of internal crises that Israel is experiencing.

Israeli military convoys during a maneuver simulating a ground incursion into Lebanon (Agencies)

The Oslo complex and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin... a pivotal station

The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 by a Jewish gunman was a turning point in the political, religious and social transformations in Israeli society.

The assassination of Rabin - which is considered the first political assassination in the Hebrew state - contributed to the heat and polarization between the Jewish parties and the imbalance between the three political camps represented by the traditional right, the center, and the Zionist left.

This polarization and political and security transformations - whether at the level of the Palestinian issue or the burning files in the Middle East - turned in their accumulation into internal crises that were vented and exported through the initiative to escalate on the northern front with Hezbollah, and with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

After decades, the escalation model for the purpose of exporting internal crises, fleeing forward, and ignoring reality and burning issues, turned into the essence of the Israeli crises, with the approach of internal and external crises and the difficulty of separating them, with the intertwined motives of escalation to escape into the unknown.

The Iranian nuclear program... Netanyahu's scarecrow to stay in power despite the aggravation of corruption files

Benjamin Netanyahu - who was elected in 2006 to form the core of the ruling coalition in Israel - was able to put the Iranian nuclear file at the center of the Israeli scene's concerns, as he employed this file as a scarecrow to win over the Israeli voter.

The Iranian nuclear file and the existential threats to Israel seemed to lift Netanyahu to power until March 2021, when his rule was overthrown with the intensification of the accusations and corruption files that were leveled against him, and the crisis of the nuclear project worsened with Tehran approaching to become a nuclear threshold state.

The divergence in attitudes towards Netanyahu and the corruption files for which he is being tried has deepened the crisis of governance stability in Israel, which the leaders of the majority of the Zionist parties considered an indication of undermining “Jewish democracy,” as this crisis is intertwined with many internal crises, including the Iranian nuclear file and the threats of the Naftali Bennett government. And inciting it to the necessity of directing a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, and thwarting the signing of a new nuclear agreement.

The Iranian nuclear file represented a lever for Netanyahu to remain in power despite the corruption files that surrounded him (Getty Images)

The Dialectic of Judaism and Politics in Israel.. An Exacerbating Crisis

The dialectic of religion, politics, and the relations between the secular Zionist movement and the religious current and various sects - especially the Western "Ashkenazi" and the eastern "Sephardic" - have become the most prominent internal crises that resurface and are relayed to avoid their repercussions that would disintegrate the societal and religious fabric of the Jews.

This clash reflects the new trends of secular Zionism, which have been influenced in certain aspects by the Jewish religious discourse in order to attract large segments of Jews, while the internal conflicts are escalating between Jews immigrant from Russia and their quest to dominate decision-making positions, as well as settlers represented by the "Gush Emunim" movement, the godfather of settlement. in the West Bank.

This controversy led to a new trend called "Religious Zionism" that combines Jewish religious discourse with secularism, provided that the main axis of this current remains the Zionist principles that contradict the proposal, thought and principles of the Haredi religious parties that disbelieve in Zionism and dream of establishing a Jewish state that is governed by laws and legislation from the Torah.

Religious thought in the Israeli political scene... an intractable crisis of governance

The religious thought of the various religious and political sects and currents has taken root in the general political scene and in various contexts, as these parties and movements competed to enhance their presence and influence among the Israelis on the religious and Zionist intellectual level, and to integrate these components, at the expense of the principles of secularism, which shows signs of undermining Israeli democracy. And its decline as a comprehensive framework for the Jews.

The Zionist and Haredi religious parties seek to continue their presence and role in ruling and controlling the Zionist and Israeli political battlefield, which has contributed to fueling conflicts at the cultural, social and class levels among Jews, which reflects the governance crisis afflicting Israel, in light of the penetration of religious thought into Israeli politics, which is the thought Which fueled the division in Israeli society, as the corruption files - for which former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being tried - deepened this division, and four electoral cycles have been held since April 2019 and led to the formation of the Bennett government.


The Nationality Law and the Jewish-State Project… Cumulative crises

The "Jewish state" project, launched by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2001, aims to create a state for Jews only, and the failure of the Zionist project to guarantee a Jewish majority in historic Palestine.

This failure accumulated the "national law" that the Knesset legislated in 2018, and defines "Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people", with the Israeli government, in March 2022, extending a law preventing the unification of Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line.

These racist legislation did not guarantee the ethnic superiority of the Jews, but rather fueled the demographic battle and the geography struggle in historic Palestine through the unity of the Palestinian people and adherence to the principles of the Palestinian cause, and refusal to compromise on the constants or make concessions, in response to the settlement project in the occupied Palestinian territories in 1967.

The fueling of the demographic conflict in historic Palestine contributed to the birth of an internal crisis in the Israeli political scene with everything related to the Palestinian issue, which led to splits within the Jewish parties that were unable to provide solutions with the Palestinians.

Managing the conflict with the Palestinians... Another facet of apartheid

In an effort to escape forward, successive Israeli governments have left any solutions with the Palestinian Authority, especially the two-state solution, which has become unrealistic and impossible to implement on the ground in accordance with international resolutions, due to the fait accompli policy imposed by the Zionist settlement project, which collides with the steadfastness of the Palestinian people, with the approach of the Israeli political system On both sides of the Green Line through the apartheid system.

In light of the dominance of the right-wing Zionist discourse on the political scene, the Jewish parties became unable to provide solutions with the Palestinians, without these parties finding a way out of the tunnel of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as they suffered defeats and failures in family projects, the obliteration of national and national identity, and attempts to tame the Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line.

Because of racist legislation and the policies of successive governments, Israel has become an apartheid state with a long history of discrimination and racism and decades of oppression and domination. their presence.