What Drives the Left to Incite Civil War?:  Caroline Glick, JNS, Feb. 10, 2023 —  Dr. David Wurmser, my colleague at the Center for Security Policy, joined me on this week’s episode of the “Caroline Glick Show.” I opened the show this week by discussing the chasm between how nations throughout the world perceive Israel and how Israel perceives itself.

What :Jewish Hysterics and Israel’s New Government:  Elliot Abrams, Commentary Magazine, Feb. 2023 —

What explains the hysterical reaction, not least among some American Jews, to the victory of Israel’s new coalition government in the elections held there in November 2022?

Israel Divided: Can It Stand?:  Mordechai Nisan, Newsmax, Feb. 6, 2023

The Struggle for Israel’s Democracy:  Gadi Taub, Tablet, Jan. 25, 2023

Israel’s Constitutional Counterrevolution:  Peter Berkowitz, Real Clear Politics, Feb. 5, 2023

In the Knesset and in the Streets, the Leaders of the Israeli center-Left are MIA:  Haviv Rettig-Gur, Feb. 2, 2023
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Israeli Democracy Is Fine, Thank You for Asking:  Gil Troy, Tablet, Feb. 1, 2023— As the brutal videos from Memphis of Black police officers beating a Black man to death trigger yet another racial paroxysm, many Americans are claiming that Israeli democracy is doomed.

Judicial Overhaul Plan is ‘Regime Change,’ Will Destroy Legal System, says Former AG:  Jeremy Sharon, Times of Israel, Feb. 10, 2023 — Former attorney general Avichai Mandelblit has described the government’s proposed sweeping and drastic overhaul of the legal and judicial system as “regime change” that would “eliminate the independence of Israel’s legal system from end to end.”

An Orwellian Assertion about Judicial Reform in Israel:  Jerome M. Marcus, JNS, Feb. 8, 2023 — 

 Much of the argument against judicial reform in Israel is an Orwellian assertion of exactly what is not true. A law that limits the power of unelected judges to overrule the decisions of the peoples’ representatives is attacked as anti-democratic. 

Haredi Site Bashes Kotel Bill: ‘Increases Polarization and Hatred’:  Zvika Klein, Jerusalem Post, Feb. 9, 2023

— Israel’s largest Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) news site Kikar HaShabbat published an editorial on Thursday bashing the Shas Party bill promoting six months in prison or a NIS 10,000 fine for women who wear a prayer shawl, dress immodestly or reads from the Torah at the Western Wall.