First, from my perspective, whether the government follows decrees of Supreme court on settlements or Tal Law makes very little practical difference. Within the scope of settlement enterprise, this means that a few settlers would be relocated against their will without any change in the overall trust of expansion and repression of villages in Area C that supports that expansion. But within Israel, outright defiance of the courts is a further step toward the model of democracy that was summarized as “No Man’s life liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session”. And 972mag contributors are on the list of people who can be directly impacted by such trend.

If people have no right to use computers to organize protests against the wall, perhaps they have no right to write supportively about such protests. Some MKs already characterized “radical Left” as traitors.

My impression is that the actual change is that some committees in the Knesset have a different composition now, to put a break on some projects of the “more enthusiastic members” of the ruling coalition. But Kadima is not truly in the government. It is a strange situation. My reading is that Likud needed a defense against itself. Kadima needs some time for Lapid’s movement to fizzle out. This is probably the essence of common interests.