“The High Court in Israel has powers unlike any other court on the face of the earth, full stop”
The unruly street demonstrations with the potential for violence.
The ever-widening chasm between the political left and right.
The alliance between the Israeli left and international elites, including the US secretary of state and other prominent Democratic politicians, who fret publicly that judicial reforms spell a death knell for Israeli democracy and the dawn of a precipitous economic decline.
The first phase of the reforms, which the Knesset plans to vote on this month, is only preliminary. It will take months for the full package to be considered. It’s also not quite a matter of life and death, like Oslo became with its ongoing reign of terror.
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