Here’s an interesting leftist perspective on the current crisis: A number of American friends have been asking about my thoughts on Israel so I figured I’d just do a thread. This isn’t some academic analysis or anything, just some things I’ve noticed as someone who follows the news closely and has been to probably a dozen protests. Here we go: 1. The threat was real. American Left is (rightfully) wary of anyone that leans on unelected Supreme Court, but in this case they were final line of defense before dictatorship. Israel has no other checks or balances. No constitution, no separation between exec. and legislature 2.Bibi’s extremist coalition was trying to push reforms that would turn supreme court into rubber stamp. First to suffer would be Palestinians, LGBT and unions. Imagine Trump (who couldn’t even cancel Obamacare) with no obstacles, no challengers. What would he do? 3. If the reforms would have passed, many of the Palestinians with Israeli citizenship would have been disenfranchised because they have become the crucial piece in any non-Netanyahu coalition. As a result, Bibi would never lose an election ever again. Game Over. 4. The protests were driven by elites. Capital, PMC, academics, tech workers, military pilots, etc. This led to some cringe moments for me at protests. I met some Druze at Haifa protests but Palestinians mostly stayed out of this. Radical Left was present but its small. 5. In the end Bibi was forced to stop reform (for now) for 3 reasons: A.…