Special Report Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu Moves Forward On Judicial Reform Following Protests, Clashes With His Corruption Trial In The Background Of The Story

Nextrush Free ^ | 3/1/2023 | Nextrush/Self

[Nextrush]

"The anarchical activists led by Lapid continue to cross red lines. Right now they are harassing and threatening my wife in Tel Aviv..."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu On One Protest That Targeted His Wife Inside A Hair Salon In Tel Aviv This Evening

It took hundreds of Israeli police to extricate Sara Netanyahu...

Following today's events Mr. Netanyahu tonight with a statement that said in part:

"The freedom of demonstration is not a license to plunge the country into anarchy, because a sovereign country cannot tolerate anarchy...

It's a slow walk for the legislation that will make Israel's judicial system more like the United States system at the federal level with political appointments of the Attorney General and judges...

The sweeping legislation states that the judiciary in Israel has no say in reversing it.

But opponents like former Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit insist that the Attorney General and High Court act against it...

The characterization of the proposals as:

"a regime coup"

underscores the serious of the divide in Israel over the judicial reforms.

Israel's President Isaac Herzog and some members of Parliament from the military-industrial complex opposition party "National Unity" joined Likud government coalition party members urging a compromise.

Last Saturday night in a nation of nine million people some 300,000 on the streets...

Today's protest crowd very strong as well some 80,000 participating in what was called a "national day of disruption"...

Underlying the judicial reform controversy is the fact that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has personally been targeted by the existing judicial system in Israel one that is seen as biased against him.

His slow-moving corruption trial underway...

Lines of confrontation are drawn in Israel and tonight Mr. Netanyahu was able to play a January 6ish card on his opponents and paint them as extreme with strong...

[Rockingham]

In truth, due to the socialist roots of Zionism, Israel has a powerful, arrogant, self-selected judiciary that is dominated by the Left and serves its political interests. The Left uses the judiciary to thwart democracy whenever the Israeli public elects a right-wing government.

[Socon-Econ]

Bibi needs to get HIS side out in the streets.

[rmlew]

In truth, due to the socialist roots of Zionism, Israel has a powerful, arrogant, self-selected judiciary that is dominated by the Left and serves its political interests. The Left uses the judiciary to thwart democracy whenever the Israeli public elects a right-wing government.
Religious Zionism is older than socialist, general, or revisionist Zionism. The Labour Zionists collaborated with the British and kept ideological opponents out of Israel in the 1930s, allowing them to take power in 1948.

[Rockingham]

True enough, and I did not mean to suggest that Zionism was exclusively socialist in origins or realization. Yet, like modern India and most of the other countries that won independence in the middle of the 20th Century, modern Israel was established in an era when socialism was dominant as an intellectual force and seen as the wave of the future. Thus the socialist ideals of so called “political Zionism” or “labor Zionism” dominated Israeli politics at its formation.