2023-04-26 18:26:29
In the Midron Yafo park there is no room for a pin. Dozens of families and groups of friends expand their belongings on the grass of one of the most idyllic places on the coast of Tel Aviv. There, they have been preparing their barbecues, drinking and playing since the early hours of this Wednesday while they wait for a hundred planes to gaze up at the sky. Israel celebrates its 75th Independence Day in the midst of one of the worst domestic crises in its history. On the grass, you can still see remains of the protest party that took place on Tuesday night in the Mediterranean city. Thousands of people took to the streets as part of the massive civil movement against the judicial reform initiated by the government of the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Barely 70 kilometers from the top of Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, the fireworks illuminated the face of the Israeli president. On the same night, Netanyahu led the traditional ceremony marking the transition from solemn Memorial Day to joyful Independence Day by lighting a torch in the presence of dignitaries and honored guests. In this ceremony, which marks the most important festivity of the hebrew statethe daily disagreements of the policy Israeli. But this year they have. prominent figures of the oppositionlike its leader, the centrist Yair Lapidhave boycotted the event and thousands of people have preferred to attend the “independence party” held in Tel Aviv.
“Torn between extremists”
The Executive’s proposal extreme right to reform the power of attorney it has further polarized an already divided population. “I am convinced that there is no greater existential threat to our people than the one that comes from within: our own polarization and alienation from each other,” the president said this week. Isaac Herzog to the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Tel Aviv. The celebration of two parallel and, somehow, exclusive events is a clear example of the current political climate that dominates the country in its most important day. “This year, the Israeli nation is divided between extremists,” protester Israel Shur told AP.
To see the three YBDA patriarchs of Idodi Zoldan, Shuli Har Melech and Yehuda Dimantman the 14th dancing together this morning in the center of the circle to the sounds of praise songs of the Independence Day at the Chomesh yeshiva, in recognition of 75 years of independence and the repeal of the law of secession in northern Samaria, to shudder, tear up and rejoice. And to know that “in your blood is my life”!
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— Bezalel Smotrich (@bezalelsm) April 26, 2023
While hundreds of people gather in parks, beaches and gardens, the most radicals of the government participate in a prayer service at the site of a former settlement in the west bank busy. The finance minister and leader of the settlers, Bezalel Smotrich, has joined a hundred people, including several MPs, in the first meeting since the Knesset scrapped a law banning settlements in this area called Homesh. He settlement was cleared in 2005, but there has been growing momentum in the movement to settlers, backed by government ministers, to re-establish a permanent Jewish-Israeli presence there. A makeshift yeshiva, a school for the study of sacred texts, has long operated on the site.
Polemic with von der Leyen
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Around the world, political leaders have congratulated Israel on its 75-year history. The words of the president of the European Comission, Ursula von der Leyen, have caused angry reactions on social media. The European representative congratulated the Hebrew State for “making the desert bloom”, an expression used by the Zionists to emphasize that they found themselves with an empty land ready to become their nation. Following their slogan “a land without a people for a people without land”, they deny the presence of a native population that was the thousands of Palestinians that these days also commemorate his Nakba. This word means catastrophe in Arabic and refers to the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians in 1948.
“Von der Leyen also points out the European values shared with the Israeli regime”, denounces the Palestinian academic Yara Hawari On twitter. “It’s not bad at all: colonialism, ethnic cleansing to name a few…”, he adds. Although the country is embarked on a serious domestic crisis and maintains a military occupation for more than half a century, so far, it has not made it lose international support. And it is that Israel, at 75 years of age, is enjoying its best period in the global arena. After 16 weeks of protests, many opposed to judicial reform have joined the ranks of Israelis on the grass and sand to stop for a moment and celebrate the triumph of the Zionist dream.
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