Thank you TheFP for publishing this explanation of what is going on in Israel. Also, I'm glad to see that articles are kept in chronological order, rather than putting the ones with the most likes/comments first. I didn't notice this article until today, so I must have missed it when it was on the "front page". I am hopeful others will s…
Thank you TheFP for publishing this explanation of what is going on in Israel. Also, I'm glad to see that articles are kept in chronological order, rather than putting the ones with the most likes/comments first. I didn't notice this article until today, so I must have missed it when it was on the "front page". I am hopeful others will see it also as I think it presents a sober, fact-based rebuttal to the article by Matti Friedman. I don't understand the hatred against Netanyahu. I don't doubt that he has his personality flaws, especially after having so much power for so long. Yet, I also don't doubt his love for Israel and the Jewish People.
For years Netanyahu opposed such judicial reforms, this is public knowledge (and don't forget, he was more recently the PM for a dozen years and refused to pursue reforms during that time). So why the 180 now?
1. Only now does he need to neuter the judiciary, in order to extricate himself from his legal woes (he has been indicted for breach of trust, bribery and fraud).
2. He has alienated every single one of his former centre/right allies through lies and deceit, and is now left only with the ultra-orthodox (who will support any government that will give them the huge budgets they need for their large nonworking communities as well as automatic exemptions from service), and the "messianic" far-right religious (who would like to annex the entire Judea/Samaria, a process which would then lead to actual apartheid, not the lies that Israel is subjected to currently, but the real deal). If Netanyahu cannot appease these coalition partners - whose ultimate goals require the neutering of the judiciary, to avoid those pesky "human rights" issues - he is out of power, this time likely for good.
Thank you TheFP for publishing this explanation of what is going on in Israel. Also, I'm glad to see that articles are kept in chronological order, rather than putting the ones with the most likes/comments first. I didn't notice this article until today, so I must have missed it when it was on the "front page". I am hopeful others will see it also as I think it presents a sober, fact-based rebuttal to the article by Matti Friedman. I don't understand the hatred against Netanyahu. I don't doubt that he has his personality flaws, especially after having so much power for so long. Yet, I also don't doubt his love for Israel and the Jewish People.
For years Netanyahu opposed such judicial reforms, this is public knowledge (and don't forget, he was more recently the PM for a dozen years and refused to pursue reforms during that time). So why the 180 now?
1. Only now does he need to neuter the judiciary, in order to extricate himself from his legal woes (he has been indicted for breach of trust, bribery and fraud).
2. He has alienated every single one of his former centre/right allies through lies and deceit, and is now left only with the ultra-orthodox (who will support any government that will give them the huge budgets they need for their large nonworking communities as well as automatic exemptions from service), and the "messianic" far-right religious (who would like to annex the entire Judea/Samaria, a process which would then lead to actual apartheid, not the lies that Israel is subjected to currently, but the real deal). If Netanyahu cannot appease these coalition partners - whose ultimate goals require the neutering of the judiciary, to avoid those pesky "human rights" issues - he is out of power, this time likely for good.