Honest Jews have two options: create a Judean state or change Israel. To change Israel, diagnose her illness: fearful indifference. Most Jews hate living with Arabs and hate giving away Jewish land. Faced with an immensely powerful government, they don’t hope to prevail. It’s hard to live with loss, so Israelis convince themselves that since the government is wiser than they are, living with the Arabs and giving away land is counter-intuitively fine. If only we show the Israeli masses a solution, a way of reaching our common ideals despite the workings of a treacherous elite, the masses would join our quest for a Jewish Israel. The policemen are also Jewish and detest the anti-Jewish Israeli government. They respect strength and lean toward the government but would join the people if the people were winning.
The solution is well known: non-violent (albeit not exactly peaceful) protest. Persistence is the key. A thousand people can be sent to jail for incitement and violation of public order. Fifty thousands cannot. The question is, are there a fifty thousand Jews ready to go to jail to keep our state Jewish?
A better way than demonstrations by 1% would be to introduce an improvement in the democratic process.Every voter on the electoral roll should be able to apply for a username & password, and then securely vote on an online poll for or against pending legislation. Like the Californian "proposition" system, but online.Such a system does not, in it's initial stages, need to be binding to be effective. What legislator could survive the next election if voted against the wishes of a majority of his/her electorate?Eventually, hopefully, representatives seeking election would promise to poll their own electorate before voting on legislation.
The answer to question "are there a fifty thousand Jews ready to … " is well known. It would be "no". The whole IDF headcount is about 200 thousand; and that's pretty match all available man AND women in ages 18-22. Think about it next time.
To Bar5: Direct democracy is hardly operative in a state where the government and oligarchs own mass media and manipulate public opinion. Even if Israeli leftists constitute 51% and want to embrace the Arab majority in Israel and give Judea to Muslims, so what? Should we listen to them?To Yosi: Why limit the number of 18-22 age group? Myself, I'm more than twice that age. Many, probably most people at Gush Katif demonstrations were older than 22. In Amona - you are right, the protestors were young.