Ben Lynfield, "Israel swears in Benjamin Netanyahu amid concerns of further slide to right" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/29/israel-swears-in-benjamin-netanyahu-amid-fears-of-further-slide-to-right

This new Israeli government is a catastrophe. Not just with regard to the relationship with the Palestinians and its settlement policy but for Israel as a democratic state.

For one, Netanyahu aligned himself with the supremacist, racist, theocratic Jewish right and brought them into power, a breach of taboo. And second, the Netanyahu government intends to change the democratic nature of the state of Israel itself, thereby revealing its authoritarian character and goals:

« The government also declared it a priority to pass legislation enabling the Knesset to override supreme court decisions, thereby removing a major check on its power. »

A major problem is that Netanyahu opened the door to people with a theocratic understandsing of land and state, making compromises with Arabs and Palestinians impossible. Now the land, the whole land, is sacred, and settleing on the whole land the way to redeem soil and land. Sharing it with others becomes outright impossible. And the IDF, responsible for protecting all Israeli, will have to protect the messianic Jews in the territories.

This is such an awful development for the whole Middle East.