No other country in the Western world has been forced to exist and strive under the constant shadow of endless cycles of war, terrorism, invasion, rocket fire, suicide bombings, and existential threats since its establishment 78 years ago, affecting virtually every family in Israel. While many nations have experienced wars in their history, Israel has faced continuous conflict from the very day it was established as the Jewish homeland after nearly two thousand years of exile. Hamas’ invasion of southern Israel on Oct 7th, was only the latest manifestation of the barbaric terror carried out by our Palestinian neighbors, let alone the ensuing war on seven fronts forcing Israel to defend herself, against daily attacks by Hamas, Yemen, Lebanon and Iran. Intuitively, this ongoing reality of the endless cycles of wars and terror is a product of the Arab and Islamist refusal to accept the existence of Israel in the Middle East. Yet, the rejection of Israel’s right to exist as the national homeland of the Jewish people cannot alone explain the historical phenomenon of endless cycles of wars and terror.
Judicial overreach in Israel and the butterfly effect of Israel’s judicial system has systematically weakened Israel’s security, empowered anti-Semitism within Israel and throughout the Western world resulting in global anti-Semitism that threatens not only Israel but Jews everywhere. Israel’s “deep state” personified by the judicial system prevents an end to the endless cycle of war and terror, but they are not alone. The four pillars of Israel’s “deep state” includes; the judiciary, the media, bureaucratic civil servants, and progressive political forces. Together, Israel’s “deep state” lead by unelected bureaucrats, legal advisors, and judges have thwarted the will of the people by preventing Israel’s elected government from passing laws, and ensuing policies that in most Western nations are not subservient to legal review or jurisdiction. The political bias of Israel’s “deep state” has influenced all sectors of government allowing entrenched bureaucrats in the military, the police, and Israel’s security agencies to operate with legal immunity by promoting progressive strategic policies that contradict or nullify the explicit laws and decisions passed by Israel’s elected government. Judicial activism and non-elected officials in government ministries, often termed "legal advisors," act as a "super government" preventing governmental ministers from carrying out their duties and fulfilling their political mandate, thereby expressing the will of the people who voted for them. To amplify the “deep state’s” political perspective, they use the media and journalists to control the narrative, influence policy and public opinion in the daily political discourse by disseminating disinformation extensively.
This “weaponized” legal system acts exclusively against conservative or right-wing governments that have rejected the progressive political agenda. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s current court trial appearances over the past three years have given the general public a convincing glimpse into how the prosecution and investigative police units have orchestrated a witch hunt against the Prime Minister, many of his appointments of security agency heads, and political aides. Let there be no doubt, these gatekeepers; prosecutors, police, and jurists are not protecting the rule of law against executive overreach, rather they are committed to a progressive agenda that goes way beyond what is politically and morally acceptable to the general public and to the majority that voted in the current government in Israel. The deep state is systemic, it’s malignant, and it’s global. Israel’s “deep state” treats every single act or decision by Israel’s democratically elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the end of Democracy.
It was President Eisenhower who first coined the term the military-industrial complex (MIC). Many scholars describe the MIC as the American "deep state," an entrenched, unelected, and secretive network comprising military, intelligence agencies, corporate defense contractors, and Silicon Valley. This expansion reflects a permanent national security state, rather than just a military-focused industrial alliance. This entity has grown exponentially since World War II, merging with intelligence agencies and Wall Street. Defining the Deep State: The deep state, in this context, is viewed as a "state within a state," where unelected bureaucrats and industry leaders shape policy, sometimes operating independently of elected officials. Many observers maintain that the "deep state" is a real, evolving structure that perpetuates itself behind the scenes of the constitutionally elected government.
The “deep state” poses a challenge for democratic nations throughout the world including the United States, whether during the Eisenhower Presidency or today during the Trump Presidency. Yet, for Israel, the “deep state” has prevented Israel’s democratically elected government from taking the necessary steps to end the endless cycle of wars and terror. Judicial decisions by Israel’s Supreme Court have over the years prevented Israel from concluding waves of terror or wars with a decisive victory. Due to judicial intervention and overreach, ceasefires replaced permanent long term solutions, international diplomacy replaced military successes and decisive victories. Human rights and humanitarian aid for the enemy superseded the sanctity of life for Israel’s soldiers and citizens. Terror organizations were kept on a low burner, weakened but never fully destroyed. Israel’s “deep state” created a culture that espoused a political bias that embraced a progressive agenda: restrain and deterrence is preferable, manage the terror rather than eliminate it, ceasefires will evolve into long term peace or as the motto from the 60’s goes: make love not war.
What Israel’s “deep state” refuses to understand is that wars that are ended without a decisive victory will eventually return whether as terror or as a full blown war. Oct 7th and the ensuing war has taught the Israeli people that, we should not be expected to accept a reality that no other nation would tolerate. All Democracies make mistakes and not every decision by the current government has been flawless, however Israel’s political echelon has been held accountable and will have to overcome the test of elections within the coming months, something that evades the leaders of Israel’s “deep state”, they will not only be held unaccountable, but their objective of having the final say will be unattainable sooner rather than later.