This is a fascinating development.
How else should we look at it other than as an extension of the Arab Spring? Sure there are lots of differences: Israel is a democracy (albeit a weak one) but within the context of a democracy this is the same kind of thing.
As a country that has been focused on conflict with its neighbours and with occupying territories it has no hope of controlling without large-scale oppression of the people who live there, it should come as no surprise that the rest of the country has gone to shit in the meantime.
‘Just as Hobbes saw clearly that the State was against war, so war is against the State and makes it impossible’ (Deleuze and Guattari 1988: 359).
