This is a really good article and Haaretz is worth subscribing to if you are interested in Israel
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Netanyahu is harming the interests of the West, particularly those of the United States. Why should Western leaders endure protests in their countries against Israel’s actions in Gaza and the region when they are dictated by a reckless arsonist igniting the Middle East? The clear interest is to remove him from power.
The West has enough leverage to replace Netanyahu democratically. This will become possible when the Israeli political system receives the necessary signals that Netanyahu has become a persona non grata.
Netanyahu is turning Israel into an autocracy – a Jewish Iran in the Middle East that could no longer be a true partner to the United States.
Furthermore, the means the two have employed over the past thirty years are taken straight from the autocrat’s playbook, as described in Martin Wolf’s book “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism”: They have alienated reasonable people in their political circle and replaced them with incompetent yes-men; they have gradually and efficiently taken control of the judicial system and the media; they’ve turned the regime into a kleptocracy, plundering state resources; they’ve appointed their loyalists to control the security apparatus; they’ve institutionalized corruption, subjugating major capital holders; and they have forged alliances with similar rulers around the world.
They also don’t understand that if Netanyahu remains on the scene, there will be no more free elections in Israel. In the “best” case, there will be restrictions on certain populations, such as the Arabs, while in the worse case, elections will be postponed under the pretext of a perpetual state of emergency.
These issues particularly concern the ultra-Orthodox parties, whose shortsightedness is astonishing. They fail to understand that Netanyahu’s reliance on the far-right only increases the shifting of their voter base to Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party, and that the severe deterioration of Israel’s economy will leave them without the state resources they require.
Law, Power, and Justice 
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