Posted on 03/23/2023 5:13:30 PM PDT by Nextrush
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an address to the nation this evening (Thursday) on the government's planned judicial reforms. The address follows Netanyahu's meeting with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who called for the judicial reform bills to be frozen until the next Knesset session.
"Citizens of Israel, a few months ago, as soon as the election results were announced, I said, 'I intend to be prime minister of all citizens of Israel," I meant it then and I mean it today." Netanyahu said at the beginning of his speech. "We have one country and we must do everything to protect it from external threats and from an irreconcilable rift from within. We cannot allow any dispute, no matter how acute, to endanger our shared futuee."
"The opponents of the reform are not traitors and the supporters of the reform are not fascists. Most of the citizens of Israel love our country and want to preserve our democracy. But since there are those who appropriate democracy for themselves, I want to say a few words about democracy: the supporters of the reform think there is no democracy here. What is real and what endangers democracy is an all-powerful court. On the other hand, the opponents of the reform think that what will endanger democracy is a Knesset and a government that will act without restraints and without brakes, that will endanger the rights of the individual," he said.
The Prime Minister made it clear that he does not intend to freeze the judicial reform legislation...He also declared that after the passage of the law preventing the attorney general and Supreme Court from declaring a prime minister unfit, he is free to involve himself in the efforts to hold negotiations over the judicial reforms...
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
How will the Left react as the final push for judicial reform goes forward stay tuned.
Caroline Glick’s podcast this week (Episode 46) has an interview with Dr. Yoram Hazony, author of “Conservatism: A Rediscovery,” president of the Herzl Institute and founder of the NatCon movement. A thoughtful discussion of the worldwide woke Left and why they want dictatorship.
“What is real and what endangers democracy is an all-powerful court.”
NO compromise. MORE leftist tears.
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