Analysis
Tuesday, March 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Haviv Rettig Gur Times of Israel, Mar. 27, 2023 “To the half of the country that hadn’t voted for the coalition, the extreme version was the goal, not a tactic on the way to a more moderate version. One doesn’t negotiate the dismantling of democracy on the breakneck schedule of the dismantlers.” The Israeli […]
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Melanie Phillips The JC, Mar. 23, 2023 “This mindset now unites most of the progressive classes in Israel, Britain and America. For them, ordinary people who don’t share their views are the “deplorables”. By contrast the judges — educated, liberal, cosmopolitan — are people like themselves.” Many appear to believe that the Israelis demonstrating […]
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Monday, March 27th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
IN THE BEGINNING … The Long March Back: Nate Hochman, National Review, Feb. 16, 2023 — To understand today’s culture wars, we have to go back to the beginning: a jail cell in Fascist Italy. For the last decade of his life, Antonio Gramsci was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini’s regime for his role in founding the Italian Communist […]
Monday, March 20th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Israel’s Judicial Reckoning: Evelyn Gordon, Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 6, 2023 Israel Needs Judicial Reform—But How?: Editorial Board, WSJ, Mar. 12, 2023 The Urgent Need for Israeli Electoral Reform: Melanie Phillips, Substack, Mar. 10, 2023 Israel’s Soul Is Poisoned by False Doomsday Discourse – Opinion: David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, Mar. 8, 2023 _______________________________________________________________ LISTEN: Liberalism […]
Editorial Board WSJ, Mar. 12, 2023 “Shrewd thinkers on Israel’s right understand that compromise is needed to lower the stakes, regain the public’s confidence and pass something durable. The opposition, however, sees Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing on a ledge and has no desire to let him off lightly.” Opposition to Israeli judicial reform […]
David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Mar. 8, 2023 “… opposition to public policy reforms must be debated on their merits, without semi-automatic screeching about intolerance, repression, dictatorship, thought police, and the crushing of democratic norms.” Have you heard of a country that is “drowning in a sea of sensed betrayal?” That is “awash in […]
Evelyn Gordon Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 6, 2023 “Right now, both sides believe they can win. The government has the votes to pass its own plan as is; the opposition believes that the protests and pressure will force the government to fold.” Anyone reading the press out of Israel these days would probably […]
Melanie Phillips Substack, Mar. 10, 2023 “… the problem is the system itself, which forces an ultimate zero-sum choice between two potential evils: overreach by judicial oligarchs or overreach by political oligarchs.” Democracy is currently being undermined in many parts of the free world. In Israel, the threat is deeper and wider than either […]
Thursday, March 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Michael B. Mukasey WSJ, Feb. 26, 2023 “in view of the court’s sweeping self-imposed authority, it is difficult at times to describe the current condition as the rule of law.” Judges and attorneys general throughout the world—I’ve served in both capacities in the U.S.—wield substantial authority. In any sound legal system, such authority is subject […]
Caroline Glick Newsweek, Mar. 2, 2023 “The Netanyahu government’s program for judicial reform is astounding for its modesty. If passed in full, it will simply realign Israel’s currently unchecked judiciary with the checked judiciaries of the vast majority of Western democracies.” In Israel as in states throughout the Western world, the political Left is an ecosystem […]
David Isaac JNS, Mar. 7, 2023 “Contrary to the claims of its opponents, who say that it will strip Israel of its checks and balances, judicial reform will restore the checks and balances that have been stripped away by a court system that has arrogated powers beyond its purview.” Justice Minister Yariv Levin, in […]
Monday, January 23rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Will The A-G Declare Netanyahu Unfit To Serve? Guess Again – Explainer: Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, Jan. 23, 2023 — Dramatic reports broke Friday night that Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara was considering declaring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unfit to serve in office due to conflicts of interest stemming from his corruption trial in the proposed judicial reforms. WATCH: […]
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