In Tel Aviv the Ayalon expressway, the main artery through town, was getting blocked for hours at a time. Demonstrations continued to grow all over the country.

A couple of weeks ago a movement started amongst military reservists – who unlike in the US, often volunteer to assist and are essential to the army’s operations – to refuse to serve. But Bibi’s party has an absolute (if bare) majority in the Knesset and they refused to make even token gestures to slowing their roll. This got the attention of the Israeli public beyond the normal disorganized-and-dispirited leftist circular firing squad, and kicked off a series of demonstrations. And then, emboldened, the nuttiest members of his coalition vomited forth a deluge of insane right-wing legislation – a lot of it blatantly self-dealing – that would make Marjorie Taylor-Green blush. They immediately put forward legislation to remove the only real check on their power, the judiciary especially the Supreme Court. Slightly longer still: Bibi came back to power in a coalition of, literally, convicted terrorists and other criminals, Zionist fanatics, and ultra-religious crooks. Slightly longer: Bibi has finally bit off more than he can chew.

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