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Israel's high court kills democracy
The Blaze ^ | January 1, 2024 | Mark Levin

Posted on 01/02/2024 6:44:12 AM PST by Twotone

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1 posted on 01/02/2024 6:44:12 AM PST by Twotone
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2 posted on 01/02/2024 6:58:45 AM PST by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.)
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To: Twotone

Israel has no constitution?


3 posted on 01/02/2024 7:07:24 AM PST by Bayard
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To: Twotone

Rule by judiciary is about as ideal as rule by mullahss.

—fJRoberts-!


4 posted on 01/02/2024 7:09:02 AM PST by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: Bayard

If they have no constitution then they should just ignore the judges.


5 posted on 01/02/2024 7:34:34 AM PST by nhbob1
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Or just appoint anyone they want to be judges, call them the new court.


6 posted on 01/02/2024 7:36:29 AM PST by Bayard
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To: Twotone

I have long been completely and thoroughly disgusted by Israel’s judicial system, most especially the fact that it appoints its own successors. What Netanyahu was trying to do was to move it more in the direction of our judiciary, in which a popularly elected, and therefore accountable, body would nominate new judges as the old ones retired or died off. Evidently, Israel’s judiciary likes their present system, which is little different from kings and dictators naming their own successors.

The fact that Israel has no constitution, and therefore no limitations upon the powers of any branch of government, is a very big problem, and should serve as a lesson to everyone in the world that actually cares about individual liberties and limiting government power. Israel’s judiciary is, indeed, a dictatorship.


7 posted on 01/02/2024 7:40:23 AM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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Psalm 2 comes to mind...

1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.


8 posted on 01/02/2024 7:44:16 AM PST by .30Carbine
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Let them enforce it
9 posted on 01/02/2024 7:46:04 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: SJackson

Just like Marbury Vs Madison did here.


10 posted on 01/02/2024 7:48:25 AM PST by Republican in occupied CA (We had enough government in 1789)
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Only if Netanyahu continues to be afraid of the rioting left.


11 posted on 01/02/2024 7:48:57 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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Sounds like they need to impeach the judges.


12 posted on 01/02/2024 7:55:27 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: nhbob1

Correct. Judge ignore them.


13 posted on 01/02/2024 7:56:03 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Just.


14 posted on 01/02/2024 7:56:15 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Twotone

Israel is a parliamentary republic. There really aren’t any democracies in the world. We must remember, a democracy has no elected officials at all. Democracy is just we the people voting on everything. None exists, anywhere in the world.


15 posted on 01/02/2024 8:02:05 AM PST by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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To: Twotone

Marking.


16 posted on 01/02/2024 8:07:22 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Twotone

The high court in Israel has basically ruled that it is the ultimate authority over everything and ruled that the Knesset has no power to to tell it what it can and cannot do.


17 posted on 01/02/2024 9:10:44 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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Amazing that all the leftards in Israel were demonstrating and protesting the loss of the judiciary branch’s ability to f@#$ with everyone, without regard to the other branches. Guess why? In the name of Democracy, of course.


18 posted on 01/02/2024 9:21:26 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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I’m very pro-Israel. But their system of government doesn’t seem very good.


19 posted on 01/02/2024 9:22:46 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't match your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
The high court in Israel has basically ruled that it is the ultimate authority over everything and ruled that the Knesset has no power to to tell it what it can and cannot do.

It sounds like they need remedial education about how the "power of the purse" works. A judiciary with no pay, staff, security, or building won't be very effective or influential.

20 posted on 01/02/2024 9:39:13 AM PST by Brass Lamp
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