Israel Could Be Headed for a Cold Civil War

Against the backdrop of rising tensions with Iran, heightened violence in the West Bank, and the threat of a third intifada (an armed Palestinian uprising), Israel sits on the cusp of its own cold civil war.

Whether things turn hot, simply simmer or cool down remains to be seen. Regardless, the current government’s plan to overhaul the judiciary has elicited more blowback than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ever anticipated.

With less than two months to go before its 75th anniversary, ancient divides have reemerged as jagged chasms. As with Brexit in the United Kingdom and the rise of Donald Trump in the United States—blood and soil, religion, and ethnicity again roil Israel’s body politic.

Read more at The Daily Beast.