With Two State strategy in tatters, we look at the turn to Civil Rights

It’s about 1948, not 1967

1. The settlers have taken power in Israel and they have single-mindedly claimed the portfolios that most advance their programme:

* Head of Civil Administration of the West Bank, to consolidate and expand their grip;
* Ministry of Justice, to remove or  weaken judicial brakes on ethnic cleansing throughout historic Palestine, to give judicial protection to their militias and mobs, to repress Israel’s left wing dissidents and to bring Israel closer to being a police state; (more…)