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Speaking, writing, and publishing in Arabic will be prohibited. "The poetry of Arab poet Mahmoud Darwish and his Jewish compatriots Aharon Shabtai and Yitzhak Laor will be banned." So will other writers, authors, academics, and scholars who don't conform to state diktats.
Only declared Zionists will be published, allowed on air, permitted to teach students at any level, or hold government positions.
The West Bank and East Jerusalem will be annexed. Palestinians will be dispossessed. Gaza will stay besieged. Militarized occupation will continue. So will ongoing incursions and attacks, as well as middle-of-the-night arrest raids and imprisonments.
Jews stepping out of line won't be spared. Left-of-center political parties and organizations will be prohibited, their leaders arrested and imprisoned.
Many others will be blacklisted, forbidden to speak publicly, give interviews, or leave the country. Laws already discriminate unfairly between Arabs and Jews. Ahead, they'll be much more extreme. "The death penalty will apply only to Arabs." Perhaps attacking and shooting them openly will be allowed. Stepped-up Kristallnacht attacks may become common.
Settlers will be authorized to grab any land they wish. Seizing it violently will be legal. "(M)ilitary censorship will ban any news item that could 'harm the strength of the Israel Defense Forces.' "
Supreme Court judicial authority will be curtailed. Knesset members will choose justices. Only settlers, rabbis, and ruling party members will qualify. Religious justices only may become chief justice.
A "Council of Torah Sages" will decide all war and peace issues. Palestinian statehood won't be tolerated. Conflict will persist over peace.
"Actually, you don't need much imagination to come up with all this. The future is now." It's unfolding in plain sight.
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