Why compromise is unlikely in Israel’s crisis

The protesters won't stop until they bring Netanyahu’s government down

Ehud Barak

The night before Monday’s Knesset vote on the first of the government’s proposed judicial reforms, a video filmed on the escalators in Jerusalem’s central train station went viral on social media.

It showed a great tide of people holding Israeli flags going down one escalator on their way back from protesting against the reforms in Jerusalem, a…