Sure, but again, Israel is just following the US lead--doesn't the occupation of Iraq fit this term to a 't'? Maybe Israel is a "laboratory" again, trying to bring this to some demonstration-style perfected form, or something--the one who agrees to take the bacillus right in the vein to test the vaccine, if I may stretch the conceit--but they just such a course has been evident in the United States for years now. The continuously-developing open contempt for legal norms, in all but the most grossly arbitrary and instrumentalist forms, has been IMO an important turn in the US since (roughly) the mid-1970s. although its origins obviously go back further; it was a striking change in a theretofore key component of so-called "bourgeois" ideology on the part of the vanguard capitalist state. Yes, bourgeois law has always been class-biased and hypocritical; but the attack on law *as such* is a real turn. (I will risk charges of violating Godwin's Law simply for bringing it up, and note that Franz Neumann considered this a central--maybe *the* central--feature of Naziism.)
^^^^^ CB: Yes, to Neumann's point. A main characteristic of fascism is bourgeois states violating their "own" progressive laws of civil liberties and civil rights. They have accumulated these laws in victories by progressive mass struggles over the last two hundred years.
The bourgeois democratic republican form is unstable like everything else under capitalism. Capitalism is a gaseous state.All that is solid melts into the air.
Look at the recurring financial bubbles. Heaven knows: anything goes and everything goes. It's liberalism and Freedom of Trade.