Monday, March 27, 2023

Be wary of paramilitaries

 



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.