Nobel Prize winner Prof. Yisrael Aumann, who supports the government’s plan for judicial reform, told Kan News on Wednesday that a military coup is already taking place in Israel.
Responding to a question about how the escalating tensions between the left and right in Israel can be solved, Aumann said, “I don’t know. I want to wish that the year with its curses will end and a year with brachos should begin but I don’t know how to settle [the disputes].”
“I see very worrying signs among the opposing side. Their symbol is a fist, correct? That’s not good.”
“I want to say – I won’t participate in a civil war, I’ll raise my hands like Menachem Begin and the Altalena [ship]. But in my opinion, it won’t reach that point.”
Aumann added that despite the fact that a right-wing government is supposedly in power, the protesters have the upper hand. “I think that ultimately the power lies with the protesters. The police listen to the protesters, the army listens to them. It seems to me that the protesters have more power than the government. The government is not so governing over the centers of power. If we’re going to be a military dictatorship under the mantle of the Supreme Court, then fine – it’s not ‘on the brink of a military coup’ – we’re already in the coup. The army is simply supporting the protesters.”
Moving from the topic of Israeli in-fighting, Aumann said he is even more concerned by the worrying rise in anti-Semitism around the world. “What worries me more than the severe internal dispute is the increase in anti-Semitism all over the world. You see it in universities in England and Europe, but mainly in the US. Today it is politically correct to be anti-Semitic.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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bless their change of mind…..not sure they have a heart….tin men….nasty nazi’s living among us…shameful…..un great ful
Aumann has always been right wing. When he got the Nobel in 2005 there were academics who opposed him receiving the prize due to his political views.
With all due respect; just because he won a Nobel Prize in Mathematics, why does that entitle him to give his opinions on topics having nothing to do with his area of expertise?
The political Far-Left (which always hates Israel and gives unconditional love to Muslims) has a near-monopoly on:
[1] almost the entire educational system from kindergarten to college and graduate school
[2] almost the entire mainstream news-media: newspapers, magazines, web sites, textbooks
[3] almost the entire European Union
[4] almost the entire Hollywood entertainment industry
[5] almost all major high-technology companies, like:
Google, YouTube, FaceBook, Instagram, Yahoo, Reddit
[6] The book-publishing industry and the fashion industry.
[7] numerous non-profit foundations and labor unions and store owners, including: Amnesty International, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the New Israel Fund.
Even if the political Far-Left never wins any elections, they still dominate these institutions.
@Yussel
I agree 100%.
How much more so by actors, athletes and influencers.
At least this guy got to where he is now by using his brains.
There is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics, he won the Nobel in Economics.
in other news Lapid came up with a new math formula
The far left in Eretz Yisrael are the Labor Zionists in various, militantly anti-religious, socialists, totally committed to secular European culture and regards Jews who reject assimilation into European secularism as mortal enemies. They founded the medinah, started the war with the Yismaelim, would have joined the world communist movement but Stalin rejected them (a rejection they still resent) – and they control the Israeli economy and most of the non-Torah institutions.
Unless you are willing to live in an autonomous Jewish community under an Islamic state (as was the case in pre-zionist times), if you want to be Eretz Yisrael you have to accept that the secular elite are your overlords. You could get rid of them the way the French and Russians got rid of their overlords, but it was messy and the country ended up being trashed.
“I want to say – I won’t participate in a civil war, I’ll raise my hands like Menachem Begin and the Altalena
Big mistake. If you surrender unilaterally then you lose. Begin at the time had no choice, because he knew he couldn’t win a civil war, and if he didn’t surrender he would simply be shot dead where he stood. It’s different now.