Analysis
Monday, March 20th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
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 […]
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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 […]
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Thursday, March 9th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
What the Battle Over Judicial Reform in Israel Is Really About | Opinion: Caroline Glick, Newsweek, Mar. 2, 2023 Netanyahu’s Judicial Reform Doesn’t Go Far Enough: Michael B. Mukasey, WSJ, Feb. 26, 2023 ‘Why Do We Need Judicial Reform?’ An Architect Behind the Proposal Explains: David Isaac, JNS, Mar. 7, 2023 Actions Speak Louder than Chants: Douglas Altabef, Israel National […]
Douglas Altabef Israel National News, Feb 26, 2023 “It is this take no prisoners attitude that makes the protesters’ professed obsession with the preservation of a liberal democracy seem like an Orwellian projection.” One need not be a film director nor a dance choreographer to notice that the wave of protests against proposed judicial […]
Tuesday, February 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
GAME CHANGER FOR U.S.? Iran’s Arsenal of Tyranny: Clifford D. May, WSJ, Feb. 7, 2023 — More than 3,000 assault rifles, 578,000 rounds of ammunition and 23 anti-tank guided missiles. A shipment from Americans to Ukrainians defending themselves from Russian invaders? No, a shipment from the Islamic Republic of Iran to Houthi rebels attempting to […]
Shay Khatiri National Review, Jan. 19, 2023 “The regime’s violent response in 2009 breached public trust and convinced the people that the regime remained extremely cruel.” The killing of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, while she was in custody for wearing her hijab loosely, has sparked a new wave of protests in Iran. Many […]
Vali Nasr Foreign Affairs, Feb. 6, 2023 “Iran is seeking to become indispensable to Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.” Over the past five months, a wave of protests has rocked Iran. Young women calling for an end to the compulsory headscarf have been joined by students, laborers, and professionals demanding individual rights, political reform—and […]
David Sarange NY Post, Jan. 28, 2023 “Starved of information, Iranians appear to want what we are offering.” Four hundred and fifty million. That’s the number of times social media users across the globe engaged with Farsi-languge digital content generated by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs last year. And guess what, 93% of these viewers […]
Monday, January 23rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Michael Koplow Israel Hayom, Jan. 22, 2023 “Basic Laws do not necessarily sit above the messiness of politics or reflect a broad political and societal consensus, and the Israeli Supreme Court’s effort to treat them as such causes its own set of controversies and opposition.” The furious debate over Israeli Justice Minister Yariv […]
Caroline Glick JNS, Jan. 22, 2023 “How do we bridge the gap between the law and what is right? Finding an answer to this question, discovering the secret … ‘spice’ is perhaps one of the greatest tasks that lies before us as judges.” Friday morning brought the first piece of good news […]
Monday, January 9th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
ENOUGH BLAME TO GO AROUND DEBATE: Does the Supreme Court Have Too Much Power?: Caroline Glick, JNS, Dec. 20, 2022 — The incoming Netanyahu government’s intention to enact reforms of the legal systems to limit the powers of the Supreme Court has stirred up a lot of controversies. In this week’s episode of the “Caroline Glick Show,” […]
Yonatan Green The Times of Israel, Jan. 8, 2023 “Far from purely partisan or self-serving, genuine criticism of these flaws has been consistent (and consistently growing) since the 1980s and has been forcefully advanced by some of Israel’s leading legal scholars.” Anyone following the news in Israel can hardly avoid the frenzied – yet predictable […]
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