"Hundreds of thousands of civilians will take to the streets to physically block it from happening, and the free media will consider it a disgrace and never allow it pass."
--Former prime minister Ehud Barak said that the 'backward' nationalist Netanyahu government is passing laws that will bring about a binational state.*

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The blow to US President Donald Trump and to Israel as the UN rejected the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel (and the surprising way that Israel Hayom framed it), the calls - direct and indirect - against Netanyahu and his coalition government in their battle against the police, the judiciary, the media and the left-wing, and the murder of a mother of six by her husband, whom she warned against were the top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.

Only ‘Israel Hayom’ newspaper and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called the devastating vote by 128 countries against Trump’s Declaration ‘an achievement.’ Yedioth wrote that ‘(Almost) the whole world is against us.’ Only seven countries besides Israel and the US voted in favor: Guatemala, Honduras, Marshal Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Togo. For Netanyahu, the achievement was that some 150 countries were expected to vote against the Trump declaration. Moreover, 21 countries were absent and 35 abstained, notably Australia, Canada, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia-Herznegovia, Argentina and Mexico. Israel's Foreign Ministry worked hard to get those abstentions. Netanyahu spoke personally to dignitaries such as the prime minister of the Czech Republic. That’s despite the fact that he called the UN a ‘house of lies’ before the vote. Even during the debate, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley threatened member-states that the US may retract its funding, although she didn’t specify whether to the UN or to the states themselves. And the day before Trump threatened to cut off aid to member-states who voted against his declaration. Yet, Afghanistan and Egypt, the countries which, along with Israel, receive the most aid from the US, voted against Trump’s declaration.

**The calls against Netanyahu’s attack on the police this week and against the contentious laws the coalition is trying to pass, such as the Recommendations Law and a change to the Basic Law that caused a clash yesterday between the far-right-wing Justice Minister and the High Court Chief Justice, came in various forms.  Right-wing Israelis will hold a demonstration Saturday night in Jerusalem against corruption in the government -  and even coalition members will attend. Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh said he won’t respond to Netanyahu’s statements that the police are in an organized hunt with the media and the left-wing against him, but Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit said publicly that “the legitimacy of the Police must not be harmed” (Maariv), and former prime minister Ehud Barak warned that Netanyahu's policies vis-a-vis the West Bank will result in a bi-national state and that “an attempt to implement the one-state agenda...will cause the High Court to throw out [Netanyahu's policies] at each and every juncture, and declare them unconstitutional…Hundreds of thousands of civilians will take to the streets to physically block it from happening, and the free media will consider it a disgrace and never allow it pass…Military personnel and GSS agents must refuse orders that are clearly illegal. So these people might not execute the commands they receive,” he said. "In this backward nationalism, we use existential threats from the outside and traitors from within in order to incite and divide, to instill internal hatred in order to ensure our existence. Bibi specializes in this - in creating the Hitler of the year or of the week. Every time there is a new Hitler who threatens us with a new Holocaust." (Ynet Hebrew and Maariv)