Regarding the agreement between Ben-Gvir and Netanyahu.
“The government will approve at its next meeting a decision to form a National Guard and subjugate it to National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, in exchange for Ben-Gvir's party, Otzma Yehudit, promising not to leave the government over Netanyahu's intention to postpone the legislation of the first judicial reform bill.”
This is dangerous. Here is a quote from chapter 6, page 42, of Timothy Snyder’s booklet “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century”:
Be wary of paramilitaries
When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.
