Among the many social protests that have taken place in Israel since the “cottage cheese protest” of June 2011, the struggle over limiting the export of natural gas from Israel has all the elements needed to bring people out into the streets. It epitomizes the desire for social justice, which the Israeli public started demanding in the protest of summer 2011.
This is a struggle whose success or failure will directly affect us and future generations. If it succeeds, we will pay a lot less for electricity and achieve a victory in terms of a fair distribution of Israel’s natural resources. This struggle is exactly what we dreamed of when we asked for social justice — that decision makers prefer the public good over the interests of tycoons and other stakeholders.
