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The outlines of the coalition of Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, which won the confidence of 63 members of the Israeli Knesset and were opposed by 54 deputies, show open plans to directly target the Palestinian people in all aspects of life.
The distribution of portfolios and coalition agreements indicates a new stage of legitimizing racism and perpetuating discrimination policies across several levels:
Against the Palestinians of 1948 for depriving them of the most basic civil rights, violating and obliterating their national identity, demonizing their struggle and intimidating them to separate them from the Palestinian cause.
The outlines of the 37th Israeli government, which is based on the religious extreme right, the settler parties and the "religious Zionist" alliance, confirmed hostility to the Palestinian people, and strictness in what it described as "the exclusive right of the Jewish people to the non-negotiable Land of Israel."
Enshrining what the government called "Jewish supremacy" and allowing the extreme religious right to control the security decision-making towards the Palestinians in general, and transforming the extremist religious right's ideology into policies against the Palestinians.
The broad lines of Netanyahu's government, which is the sixth in his years of rule, stipulate the expansion of the settlement project in the West Bank, Jerusalem, the Negev and the Galilee, by giving preference to the Jews in land and housing while marginalizing the Palestinians from the government program and dealing with them by combating what it called "terrorism".
It is inferred from the formation of the new government that it is preparing for an escalation against land and housing, especially in all of historical Palestine, after it allowed the head of the “Jewish Greatness” party, Itamar Ben Gvir, to assume the position of Minister of National Security.
While the godfather of settlement and leader of the "religious Zionism" party, Bezalel Smotrich, took over the finance portfolio and will be responsible for civil administration and coordinating government actions in the occupied Palestinian territories in 1967.
hostile package
In an indication of the declaration of hostility towards the Palestinians of 1948, who remained in their lands after its occupation in 1948 and imposed on them Israeli citizenship since the Nakba, and their number is 1.7 million, the components of the government coalition unanimously agreed on the need to legislate a package of laws and procedures, most notably:
Criminalizing raising the Palestinian flag in institutions funded by the Israeli government.
Allowing the withdrawal of Israeli citizenship or residency from every Palestinian convicted of “terrorism” and of acting against the security of Israel.
Changing the regulations and laws for dispersing demonstrations, and canceling what was known as “learning lessons” or the recommendations of the “Ur Committee” after the events of the Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa gift in 2000, which urged the Israeli police to ease the policy of “pushing the trigger” and demanded the integration of Arab citizens, closing gaps and reducing disparities with the Jews.
Allowing the Shin Bet, under the pretext of combating violence and crime in Arab towns within the Green Line, to intervene in criminal cases and monitor Arab citizens and social networks.
Deduction from the budgets of the five-year plan allocated to the Arabs and transferring a large part of it to security affairs.
The Netanyahu government placed the civil society institutions and political parties of the Palestinians of 1948 in the circle of targeting.
By imposing taxes on the financing of associations from outside the country, with the aim of tightening control over them, drying up their funding sources, and undermining their presence and influence.
A law will be legislated that stipulates the exclusion and dismissal of academic teachers in universities and colleges, on the grounds of their anti-Israel views or stances and their support for what the Netanyahu government calls "terrorism".
Netanyahu's extremist government seeks to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians, according to analysts (Reuters)
entrenchment of apartheid
From the Israeli point of view, the Israeli journalist who specializes in Arab and Palestinian affairs, Yoav Stern, says that the changes that will occur in the lives of Arab citizens at home and the Palestinians in general are closely related to the shifts in the Israeli situation that is heading towards dictatorship, and the changes that will also occur among the Jews themselves.
Stern explained to Al-Jazeera Net that the agreements of the new government coalition are fighting to strengthen the "national identity" of the Jewish people and belonging to Judaism according to the concept of "religious Zionism" and Haredi currents, in an indication of the non-acceptance of secular Jews and the imposition of the religious agenda on it, which suggests an expected internal Israeli clash.
While Stern believes that the Palestinians will be the most affected, whether from the programs and plans of the new government, or from the repercussions of the conflict between the Jews themselves.
On this basis, it is believed that the powers of the police and border guards, which were transferred to the new Minister of National Security, Ben Gvir, are the most prominent instigators against the Palestinians everywhere, so that there will be a tightening of the iron hand of the police towards them, “which means that teams of security forces will turn into a private army for some political leaders."
The Israeli journalist says, "The new government deals in word and deed with the Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line as enemies," an approach that, in his opinion, would further consolidate the "apartheid" regime between the sea and the river, especially with the government's aspiration to pass a law to cancel the "disengagement." North of the West Bank and the return to settlements that I previously evacuated, which will have negative repercussions internationally.