Analysis of Fania Oz-Salzberger on authoritarian drift | EUROtoday

DEmander to the Israeli historian and author Fania Oz-Salzberger How she goes to be answered that in Israel, right now, anybody who’s requested to dissociate her non-public life from the ambient political tumult. As a rustic, Israel remains to be in shock from the trauma of October 7, 2023, of the nervousness linked to the destiny of the 59 hostages nonetheless retained within the tunnels of Hamas, and an atrocious conflict which continues to tug on in Gaza.

And many are the Israelis who, like Oz-Salzberger, are tormented by what they understand as an actual “coup” led by the Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, who has been working, since nicely earlier than October 7, to weaken the judiciary and to undermine the democratic foundations of the nation.

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