What Israel apartheid regime generals are really worried about is how little will change when two ultra-nationalist, religious Jewish colonialists are put in charge of the occupation
By Jonathan Cook: There is a good reason why Gadi Eisenkot, a former head of the Israeli military, expressed alarm last week as Bibi 'The Baby Butcher' Netanyahu awarded unprecedented powers over the occupation to a far-right settler party in his new government.
Eisenkot claimed that the army was in danger of “falling apart” if Netanyahu so openly politicised its role. But that is not the real reason he and the other generals are so worried. They understand that Netanyahu is about to blow apart the security rationale that for so long obscured their racist oppression of the Palestinians under their control.
The prime minister-designate put Itamar Ben-Gvir, of the fascist Jewish Power party, in charge of the police service inside Israel and extended his remit to include the Border Police, a separate paramilitary force that chiefly operates in the occupied territories.