One would expect that those who need the people as cannon fodder would not also starve them.
Indeed, I have been wondering for some time how Netanyahu combines being a rightwinger Israeli style (expansion, militarism oriented) and binding the Likud voters, many of them among the needy, in spite of his Friedman free-market economics.
But maybe I had it all wrong: the "we are invincible" arrogance towards the Palestinians, and towards world opinion, that was exactly what for a long time was sweetening the pill of his austerity policies. But, now that the tent protest has broken the spell we may have reached the moment that the sweetener will start losing its taste.
The push of the hundreds of thousands is in the first place for Social Justice. But there are good reasons to hope, and believe, that the flood will in the end also bury the garrison state model, and invent an Israel which would cease to behave as the regional bully and - maybe it won't yet be too late - will be able to take root in its environment as an excepted neighbor.
Israel - push restart, said one of the slogans...
