It is largely beyond dispute that Bibi’s hard right / religious zealots / autocratic faction in The Knesset (its legislative body) is hamstringing the majority of Israelis — who as a rule are far more moderate than he is.
This is an odd feature of the way coalition governance works (or, more precisely, doesn’t — at present) inside the country. So it is richly… ironic, that Paul says a court decision that prevents an autocracy in Israel… is how “democracy dies” there. Positively… Orwellian use of metaphor, there Paulie!
The people of Israel are now facing an existential threat from Hamas. So, this dispute will be less contentious in these times — and that is a good thing.
But to be sure, Bibi should be seeking consensus, at every turn, since he is in a fight for the very survival of Israel as we’ve known it since 1948.
He likely won’t — and may well reopen wounds by (once again) trying to legislate away the concept of judicial review in Israel.
The upshot? Israel needs a real Constitution — one that puts such gerrymandering beyond the reach of would be despots like Bibi.
Even Mirengoff admits to this, overnight.
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