Likud party that has always been in favor of apartheid and under Netanyahu governed the occupied territories through the army. Part of what's happening with the current protests is an attempt to kind of get around this, says Shlomo Ben-Ghiat. But I'm not sure that's actually going to be possible," he adds.
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