Was that just that, the troops that Benyamin Netanyahu has to fight, as he promised, against the "Coup d'état" judges ? The demonstration held Tuesday, November 26 evening, on the esplanade of the Museum of Art Tel Aviv, was to be a warning shot in defense of the Prime Minister, after his indictment on November 21, for acts of corruption, fraud and breach of trust.
Likud, Israel's only mass party, with 130,000 members, had chartered buses all over the country. It was necessary to show that his supporters remained the only judges of Mr. Netanyahu. The only ones, in fine, who can decide on its political survival or its fall. In the end, barely 3,000 to 5,000 people were a nervous and incredulous crowd. It was not enough to amaze the country, as to dissuade the rebellion that rises from party cadres against their leader.
Among Netanyahu's supporters gathered on Tuesday evening were voters from the country's small outlying towns, many Sephardic Jews, nationalist and religious bourgeois from around Tel Aviv, the economic metropolis; ultraorthodox and many settlers from "Judea and Samaria" – the occupied West Bank. This gathering of minorities fears that the right will lose power, it has been exercising since 2009 without stopping, thanks to Mr. Netanyahu.
Agreement in principle to hold primaries
"It will be" Bibi "or we will lose the country, we will lose the Jewish state", hammered in chorus three sisters, the sixties, of Moroccan origin. "It's not about Netanyahu but about the right"Sylvia Kalstion, a long-time employee of the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv, says the youngest daughter. "Without Netanyahu, we will lose to some rich Ashkenazi families unable to win an election. These leftist judges are named among themselves. They have the media with them. These people hate us. "
"" Bibi "will be ruined outside at the primaries in three to seven weeks, and we will have legislative elections. "
This is a summary of the cultural struggle of the Israeli right wing and the more radical and panic-stricken one led by the hard core of Mr. Netanyahu's supporters: these "bibists" who terrify the Likud cadres. Tuesday night, a large part of the elected, the barons and potential successors, shone by their absence. Most had not been invited, notes a party official. Mr. Netanyahu himself did not appear, after maintaining the uncertainty. "They remain silent: they do not want to be seen as traitors. But they all mourned "Bibi" in their head. He will be ruined outside in the first three to seven weeks, and we will have legislative elections. " in March, predicts this executive, member of the steering committee of Likud. It would be the third in one year, after April and September, which did not allow for the installation of a new government.
