They didn’t want it to end this way.

The foreign foundations who have poured millions of dollars into the anti-government demonstrations over the past 34 months didn’t want it to end this way.

With Netanyahu, the leader of “the most extreme right-wing government in Israel’s history,” still triumphantly in power and poised to remain there.

And with President Trump, “the narcissistic racist who is turning America into an autocratic police state,” receiving praise from world leaders for getting Hamas to release all of the Israeli hostages and ending the war in Gaza.

As expected, the demonstrations are continuing, even though every living hostage has been released.

This is because it was never about the hostages, nor the judicial reforms before that, nor the legal charges against Netanyahu before that.  These issues brought out the crowds, but did not motivate the foreign funders.

For them, these causes were just excuses to attack Israel’s elected government in an attempt to destabilize it or even to bring about its overthrow.  The Israeli public........

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