Gideon Levy, an Israeli Journalist, says American public, not the government, is the only hope for peace in the Middle East

Gideon Levy lecture at the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 2018.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQS-_9K5-Dk&t=1158s

He emphatically says the followings:

Israel is not a democracy.

Speaking on the eve of the AIPAC summit in Washington DC, Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy says that across the mainstream Israeli political spectrum, there has never been a challenge to the occupation of Palestinian land.

Israel is the most brutal, cruel tyranny in the occupied area. Israel’s own 20% Arab minority face the most horrendous ‘discrimination in every possible aspect of life’ except the voting right. Israel is a totally segregated society. Therefore, Israel cannot be a democracy.

The Likud Party and the pro-Israeli groups like AIPAC are doing an enormous disservice to Israel as these ‘enemies’ in the disguise of friends are leading the people to live self-delusional and self-deceiving lives with a false sense of civility and democracy while the nation is losing rationality and humanity completely. He says: “What kind of nation is this!”He is holding the American policymakers and leaders as well as the Israeli leaders, on all sides, responsible for the crimes and atrocities continuously done to the Palestinian neighbors. He says Israel is “the most brutal, cruel tyranny in the occupied area. No less than this,” he emphatically repeats the expression. All in all, Israel has become a totally hypocritical, undemocratic, ruthless, oppressive, rogue state.

When the American people and civil society put pressures on their policymakers to change the situation would change.