Anyone watching the renewed wave of "end of democracy" protests has got to wonder: what do these protesters want? Israel is still reeling from three consecutive election campaigns that eventually resulted in the formation of a national unity government – one that every poll out there shows has the public's overwhelming support.
The High Court of Justice has ruled that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can head the government despite his legal troubles, and despite warnings to the contrary, Netanyahu is standing trial for his alleged transgressions.
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The Left has eulogized Israeli democracy hundreds of times over the past two years, sounding alarms and making apocalyptic predictions. But Israeli democracy has a mind of its own and it refuses to obey the Left's orders to perish.
If there is an obvious conclusion from our democracy's surviving the countless premature rumors of its death, it is that these are not cries of outrage or the expression of an authentic fear Israeli democracy is nearing its demise, but rather this is a frustrated and artificial campaign orchestrated by the left.
Someone is apparently jealous of the wave of violent protest sweeping across the United States and is trying to inject some revolutionary energy into the lethargic Israeli Left.
But the latter is too content to stage any real revolution, nor will the Israeli public be sympathetic to images of protesters vandalizing the statues of our nation's founders, or any other show of looting or violence. Then again, the Israeli Left has its own way to usurp the media's attention to try and undermine political stability.
If any of the Left's protest campaigns gain actual traction it will be because it is able to frame its frustration as pan-Israeli rage. Defense Minister Benny Gantz already tweeted about the "impending demise" of Israeli democracy, again exposing how the radical Left is able to come full circle and meet the mainstream Left.
The Left's protest may be artificial but under the right conditions, it could meet its objective and rattle our hard-earned political stability.
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