Following the large left-wing protest in Tel Aviv on Motzei Shabbos, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at Sunday’s Cabinet meeting that the government does not intend “to be swayed by inflammatory slogans” and will complete the legislation for its planned judicial reforms.
“Two months ago, there was a ‘huge demonstration’ in Israel, ‘the mother of all demonstrations,’ Netanyahu said. “Millions of people ‘took to the streets’ to vote in the elections. One of the issues they voted for was the reform of the judicial system. In recent days, various sources claim that the public didn’t know our intentions at the time. Here’s a quote that I said during the pre-election period: ‘We’ll make the necessary corrections to the judicial system. We intend to fix the system – save it and not destroy it.'”
“We said it countless times,” Netanyahu asserted. “Millions of citizens who voted for us were aware of our intention to carry out the reforms. More than that – they demanded it from us. There are also many who didn’t vote for us who agreed to it. This call [for judicial reform] has come over the years from across the political spectrum. Calls in this spirit have been said by right-wing and left-wing governments and no one said then that it was the end of democracy.”
“We want to restore the balance to the government authorities. There should be a wide-ranging discussion in the Knesset’s Constitution Committee. We won’t be swayed by inflammatory slogans about the ‘destruction of the State’ and ‘civil war.’
“When we were in the opposition, we didn’t call for a ‘civil war.’ We expect the leaders of the opposition to act in a similar spirit. We’ll complete the legislation of the reform in a way that will repair and return the public’s trust,” Netanyahu concluded.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Bibi is right; the supreme court were the end of democracy not the Knesset.
Leftists lost their UNdemocratic government – now they are crying wolf!
“Reforms”, yes. Gutting basic concepts of separation of powers and allowing a simple majority of the Knesset to override court decisions goes well beyond the vague “reforms” referenced in their campaign rhetoric.
> Gadolhadorah
Just because the article in front of us decides to make vague quotes is no reason to continue bamboozling the readership with a fake depiction of what actually happened. Actions speak louder than words: all the way back, the the 20th Knesset (for example) almost passed the “override law”. One would have to be deliberately deaf, dumb and blind to ignore the fact that the proposed laws they are now complaining about had been proposed – and even nearly passed – in previous Knesset.
GADOL HADOR
ANY COMMENT FROM ‘GADOL’ HADOR IS AUTOMATICALLY NON-DAAS TORAH’
SO WE KNOW NATANYOHU IS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
Kudos to Prime Minister Netanyahu, for wishing to honor & fulfill the wish of all who voted 🗳 for this wonderful agenda which we cannot wait to see fully implemented.
Cry babies liberals:- Shut up & grow up
Gadol, if Israeli democracy is such that they allow such legislation by majority, then it means that Israel currently lacks “separation of powers”. I understand that UK system is similar, with Parliament being the sovereign. As Bibi mentions, this is not a trick, Israel had multiple elections trying to figure out a majority, so now the majority is implementing their policies.
The Israeli judiciary largely selects who will be a judge, so the judiciary reflects the power elites of the 1950s (socialist, Ashkenazi, anti- religious) since they have been picking new judges to reflect themselves. Moving control of appointments to the elected leaders is a democratic innovation, and based on what the United States does. If the US had the Israeli system, American judges would be almost all WASP (white, British descent, and Protestant) reflecting an America as it was in the past but isn’t today. A judiciary that reflects the former social elites, and ignores the will of the population, is anything but democratic.
Shimen: What you mindlessly call “Daas Torah” are political hacks whose primary concern is to keep Netanyahu out of jail so he can shovel NIS to their mosdos. If you are capable, compare the actual language of the pending judicial “reform” bills to what had been voted on in prior sessions. Yes, majority rules and they can do whatever they want but I assure you it will end badly for Bibi.
GHD, what separation of powers? The whole problem in Israel is that the self-appointed and self-perpetuating judiciary does not recognize any separation of powers, and has by fiat installed itself and the government’s “legal advisers” as the country’s real government, with the power to override any decision by the elected legislature and executive. The Israeli judiciary does not recognize any limits at all to its authority, and that is intolerable.
That was a coup that would not be tolerated in any other country. In any other country the judges that attempted such a thing would soon be in cells, or swinging from lampposts. But in Israel it was not only tolerated, but any attempt to correct the situation is condemned and resisted by leftist hypocrites like you, as “attacks on the rule of law”.
Tell me, GHD, by what authority does the supreme court have the right to strike down laws that the knesset has passed? Who gave it such an authority? The answer is that nobody did. It grabbed it for itself, and you are supporting it. That makes you objectively a fascist.