Haggai Matar & Gideon Levy: Israel's Fight over Judicial Changes Ignores Occupation & Apartheid

[Beastly Boy]

2. Here's the chance for the Palsetinians to speak up on their own behalf.

Of course, the Palestinians on the occupied territories have far less freedom to speak, and virtually no freedom to protest, and the Israelis of Palestinian discent are already protesting, but raising the issue of occupation in the context of a larger protest against judicial reform is an opportunity for the Palestinian people, not just their corrupt leadership, to be heard loud and clear. Sure takes emphasis off the right-wing narrative of sporadic cases of terrorism on the part of hateful fanatics being typical for the Palestinian people .

And of course, the left-wing expectations of addressing the dictionary definition of apartheid in the context of Israelis fight against judicial reform is as unrealistic as addressing the proper translation of "tooth fairy" into Afrikaans in the same context.