The Bennett/Lapid “government of change” has collapsed under pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party. New elections are set for October, but there is no alternative to apartheid on the Israeli horizon.

The context behind Israeli government minister Matan Kahana’s shocking statement that he would like to send all Palestinians “to Switzerland” deserves close scrutiny, because it proves it was not a mere slip of the tongue and actually reflects an Israeli consensus.

The Palestinian towns of Iqrit and Birim in the Galilee were destroyed by the Israeli army in the 1950s so as to prevent Palestinian villagers from returning under a court order. The case haunts Israeli government to this day, as Rinawie Zoabi, a Palestinian lawmaker in Meretz, demands the return of the residents as a condition of her staying in the coalition. But Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is having none of it.

In a dramatic day for the Israeli parliament, legislators failed to renew the extension of an emergency order that affords Jewish Israeli settlers in the West Bank civil governance, while Palestinians in the same area are governed by military rule. This is one of the most blatant Apartheid laws, regularly renewed every five years since Israel began its 1967 occupation. When Palestinian lawmaker Mazen Ghanaim voted against it Nir Orbach of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s party charged at him and shouted that “the experiment with you has failed!” “You” is of course Palestinians in general, and the experiment is the idea of including Palestinians in government.

“The army and the settlement enterprise are one and the same” — a general in Israel’s occupying army says the quiet part about Zionism out loud. It has always been a messianic religious movement to establish Jewish supremacy in as much land as it can conquer. Gen. Roy Zweig was later reprimanded for speaking out, on Jerusalem Day.

Arabs are threatening to take over Israel and reduce the Jewish state to a 60-mile stretch of land on the coast, Defense Minister Benny Gantz warns a party meeting, reading out a crazed and surely-fake rant he received on WhatsApp. The Defense minister’s feverish credulity shows how unhinged and dangerous the thinking of Israel’s leaders is. But who is paying attention?

In yet another threat by an Israeli official to revisit the “Nakba” on Palestinians, lawmaker Israel Katz, a former minister of finance, warns Palestinian youth who fly the Palestinian flag to ask their parents about “your Nakba” — and warns, “If you don’t calm down, we’ll teach you a lesson that won’t be forgotten”.

Naftali Bennett’s Israel Memorial Day speech must be deciphered to understand the racist message it was truly sending.

After Russia’s Foreign Minister said that Hitler had Jewish blood, Israeli leaders have condemned him angrily, with the Prime Minister saying he was justifying “the oppressors of Israel.” Wait, when did this become about Israel? There is in fact a plausible theory that Hitler’s father’s father was Jewish. Not that that would in any way justify Russian or Israeli propaganda.

The Israeli Supreme Court rules that the killing of four Palestinian boys playing soccer on the beach during the 2014 assault on Gaza cannot be prosecuted because military commanders were seeking to distinguish civilian from military targets as much as was practicable. The “ruling in the Bakr boys’ case is further evidence that Israel is unable and unwilling to investigate and prosecute soldiers and commanders for war crimes against Palestinian civilians,” say the human rights groups that sought an investigation of the killings.