75th Anniversary of Israel: What’s Go Wrong?
https://www.rozen-bakher.com/timeline-risks/01/05/2023/0519
Published Date: 01 May 2023
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Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher
Researcher in International Relations with a Focus on Security, Political and Economic Risks for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade
01 May 2023 at 05:19. I was born in Israel 60 years ago, 15 years after its Independence, so until I left Israel permanently in 2017, I had the opportunity to see the change over the years, not for good, from the viewpoint of a liberal democratic secular Jewish woman.
If I tries to map ‘What’s Go Wrong’, then here are the major events and problems that have led to the current ‘dead-end’ situation between the Right-Wing and Center-Left Wing in Israel:
Arrogance. As the famous pharse: Arrogance breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure - Yom-Kippor War. In spite of past lessons, Arrogance is still dominant among Israeli leaders.
Six-Day War and the Occupation of Palestine. Six-Day War is related to Arrogance. No one asked in Israel if we need Gaza, Rafah, Judea and Samaria. No one asked what will be the implications of occupying millions of Palestinians.
United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, 11/1947 (see below). Since 1947, some parts of the Partition Plan may need to be change, still, the rationale of the Partition Plan is still relevant even more than 1947, because it is based on the principle that the only way to keep peace and stability in the region is to separate between the Jewish State and the Arab State. Once Israel abandoned the Partition Plan, especially in the Six-Day War by the occupation of the ‘Arab State-Palestine’, then it led Israel to the current situation without the prospect of peace and stability, but for endless resistance from millions of Palestinians that get backup from 2 billion Muslims around the globe.
Corruption. The level of corruption in Israel became the ‘New Normal’, so everyone got use to it, but it is internal destruction, espacially when it spreads to the governmental system and even to the judiciary system.
Religious Regime. Israel transformed over the years into de-facto Jewish Religious Regime without preserving the rights of Jewish seculars or the rights of non-Jewish citizens. Religious Freedom has deteriorated over the years in Israel in an unprecedented way.
Transformation from Full-Democracy into Half-Democracy with the risk of autocracy under the planning of new judiciary laws. This transformation has carried on for years, yet it has got a boost under the Netanyahu regime.
Bad Strategic Decision-Making. Too much to count the scope of the wrong strategic decisions that were made by Israel, especially in the last decade that complicated the future of Israel.
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