Israeli minister of Defense Yoav Galant visits Israelis injured in last night's terror attack, at Belinson Hospital, in Petach Tikva, March 26, 2023.Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90
Posted on 03/26/2023 12:44:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, exactly a day after Gallant called for a stop to radical [sic] reforms to the judiciary that have divided the country and that the defense minister said posed security risks to Israel.
The dramatic move could accelerate a crisis that Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, who has also called for a stop to the legislation, has said could culminate in a bloody civil war. It could also further fray ties with the United States, where Gallant has been steering coordination on defense cooperation with his U.S. counterpart, Lloyd Austin...
In a surprise address late Saturday, Gallant had called for a pause to the judiciary reforms, saying that the divisions they were sowing among Israelis were making the country vulnerable to security threats, including from Iran, Palestinian terrorists and Hezbollah, the terrorist movement in Lebanon...
Israeli media said Netanyahu was especially furious for two reasons: Gallant delivered his address while Netanyahu was in London, and did not give Netanyahu advance notice; and Gallant had made clear he would vote against the first major reform, which is due to come to a final vote on Monday.
The vote Monday will be on a law that would drastically reduce the influence of the courts in naming judges, and reserve it almost entirely for the governing coalition. Another law Netanyahu hopes to pass soon would effectively gut the power of the Supreme Court to review legislation.
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Israeli minister of Defense Yoav Galant visits Israelis injured in last night's terror attack, at Belinson Hospital, in Petach Tikva, March 26, 2023.Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90
It's the old "this endangers our democracy" argument by some "anybody but Bibi" clown.
There is a HUGE EFFORT to replace Bibi with someone who hand over Israel’s key weapons to Ukraine, starting with Iron Dome...just more crap from the Neocons, the people who started the Ukraine War, but cannot come up with a way for Ukraine to win it.
Bibi did the righteous thing.
God bless him for his courage and perseverance.
Are you sure?
The vote Monday will be on a law that would drastically reduce the influence of the courts in naming judges, and reserve it almost entirely for the governing coalition. Another law Netanyahu hopes to pass soon would effectively gut the power of the Supreme Court to review legislation.
Netanyahu's coalition won't be around forever. What would happen if the Israeli equivalent of the Dems get majority control of the next coalition?
Go for broke, Bibi! Don’t wimp out.
Netanyahu’s coalition won’t be around forever. What would happen if the Israeli equivalent of the Dems get majority control of the next coalition?
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If this happens,the country won’t be any worse off than it is now without the legislation. At least the voters will decide rather than unelected judges. Without the legislation, the entrenched leftist judiciary will ensure that the left remains perpetually in power.
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“Conservative radio host and litigator Mark Levin hosted Israeli legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich on LevinTV to explain Israel’s judicial reforms, which are being falsely described by some media as a threat to democracy.
“If anything, Kontorovich explains in the video, the reforms would make Israel’s government more democratic by giving the legislature some power to check the authority of the Supreme Court, which has become absolute.
“Kontorovich notes that Israel’s judiciary began assuming more powers in the 1990s, including the right to reject executive appointments, review administrative decisions, and declare legislation unconstitutional in advance.
“In the absence of a written constitution, Kontorovich argues, Israel’s Supreme Court has been acting as a supreme legislative body — what Levin described as a “politburo” — that largely selects its own members.
“As Breitbart News has noted, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government is proposing four new reforms, most of which would make the Israeli judicial system more like the American judicial system.
“The Israeli left has led major national demonstrations against the reforms — largely because the judiciary currently functions to enforce cultural norms and policy preferences favored by the liberal, secular elite.
“Israel-born constitutional scholar Ran Hirschl has coined the term “juristocracy” to describe the global phenomenon of courts arrogating more power for themselves while claiming to defend democratic norms.”
Judges should not rule the US or Israel.
Many Israelis want lib woke judges telling them what laws they can’t have.
When the demonkrats on OUR side want something fram Israel...
I side with”Bebi” on this.
Pretty clear you have no understanding of the situation.
Or perhaps you are a radical Leftist.
jjotto says: “Pretty clear you have no understanding of the situation.
Or perhaps you are a radical Leftist.”
Well, this much I do know,
o I am NOT a (D), and never have been.
o I TOTALLY support Trump and Israel.
o The Israel peoples are G-d’s people.
o Beden an his associates do NOT support Netanyahu.
o Biden and his associates DO support Israel’s former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, who is trying to overthrow Netanyahu’s gov.
o ANYONE who supports the (D) politics IS a leftist.
So... what does this say of you?
The Israel peoples are G-d’s people.
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All due respect, but I was reading the other night about Jesus and his days on earth and was surprised to read that the vast majority of the 14 million odd Jews on earth today do not believe in Jesus.
Assuming arguendo that that’s true, how could Jews be “God’s people”? After all, Jesus is God’s son.
I'm just making commentary on the information presented by the article as presented, and THAT'S your take?
Chill out. Netanyahu is a lot of things, but he ain't infallible.
>> Are you sure?
Yes. I’m sure.
They think if Bibi wants it, then it's a bad thing. No difference than here in USA where the Left says "orange man bad"
Wow, how could you not know that? One of the defining things
about Jews is they don’t believe Jesus was the Massiah, a prophet, or anything other than an idolatrous sorcerer.
Just more crap from a Putin supporter.
Thanks U.P. And the riots started before the judicial reforms were announced.
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