In Israel, despite the pause proposed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to allow dialogue, demonstrations continued throughout the country. “ I do not trust. The feeling is that we’re trying to be put to sleep “, say some protesters.
” We will stay on the alert until the end “says David Grossman, at the microphone of our correspondent in Jerusalem, Michael Paul. Facing the residence of the Israeli president in Jerusalem, the place where the dialogue between the parties takes place, the Israeli writer proclaims that the leaders of the country who push for this reform have made the mistake of their lives.
A ” break » Legislative was announced on March 27 by Benyamin Netanyahu to give a “ chance […] to dialogue “, after a day of intensification of the protest, the beginning of a general strike and the appearance of tensions within the majority, triggered in particular by the announcement of the dismissal of the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, who had pronounced for a pause.
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But that didn’t stop hundreds of thousands of demonstrators from marching across the country for this thirteenth week of protest. Roads were blocked and the police intervened, notably in Tel Aviv to disperse groups of demonstrators. If there were a little less people than the previous Saturday evenings, the mobilization remains very strong. No question of stopping. ” We must continue and we must go to the end, says Nathan Rujanski. Either there will be a democracy or there will be a dictatorship. This is not acceptable at all. »
” The feeling is that we’re trying to be put to sleep »
For the government, the reform aims, among other things, to rebalance powers by reducing the prerogatives of the Supreme Court, which the executive considers politicized, in favor of Parliament. Critics of the reform believe, on the contrary, that it risks jeopardizing the democratic principles in use in Israel by blowing up the safeguards. They fear that it opens the way to an illiberal or authoritarian drift.
Avital, a mother is very worried about the future of her children: “ I do not trust. The feeling is that someone is trying to put us to sleep. Difficult days are ahead of us, but we won’t let it go “, she assures. Next week is Passover. Traditionally a period of truce.
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