Haaretz: The new trump administration advances countdown to end of “democratic Israel”
The Israeli Haaretz newspaper published an article in which it discussed the internal concerns about Israel’s future due to the series of appointments revealed by US President-elect Donald Trump.
The editorial team of the Israeli newspaper believes that the new US administration, which supports the settlers and supports the annexation of the lands and their millions of inhabitants, is accelerating the countdown to the end of Israel as a democratic state.
The team cited the words of the extremist Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said that Israel is one step away from annexing the West Bank after Trump’s election victory, and that the neo-Nazis need to pay the price in terms of lands that will be permanently taken from them, whether in Gaza or in Judea and Samaria, referring to the occupied West Bank.
The article describes Trump’s appointments as the realization of a great dream for the minister, mentioning specific names waiting to fill positions in the US administration based on Trump’s choice, and they are known for their close ties to the Israeli right.
The article mentioned Mike Huckabee, an evangelical Christian who supports annexation, who will be the US ambassador to Israel.
The article commented that the inability to distinguish between Smotrich and the US ambassador is dangerous.
The article quoted Huckabee as saying in 2017 that there is no such thing as the West Bank, it’s Judea and Samaria.
There is no such thing as a settlement, it’s communities, its neighborhoods, its cities… There is no such thing as an occupation.
The article described the impact of the new appointments on Israelis who aspire to live in a state that doesn’t rule another nation and doesn’t have an apartheid system as “ominous”.
The article concludes by criticizing the joy felt on the right over the nomination of supporters of annexation to senior positions in the US administration, interpreting what Netanyahu said about the awakening as meaning the deportation of the people of Gaza and an apartheid state in the West Bank.
