Judicial reform is not an attack on democracy, it’s the downfall of a tyranny.
The vast gap between leftist hysteria and what it’s actually fighting can be easily spotted when it omits discussing the specifics of the case. Take the leftist clamor over ‘book bans’. Then ask them specifically what books are being banned in the majority of cases and then they suddenly have to defend the graphic pornographic content in books like Gender Queer.
The Israeli left, political elites and media allies have been howling that Israel’s democracy is being destroyed because of democratic judicial reforms that would stop the Supreme Court from wielding absolute power and overturning laws simply because the leftists on the court oppose them.
The Herzog visit was in no small part about undermining the Netanyahu government by propping up a leftist opposition figure. (That was why the Dems, who had previously embraced Rep. Ilhan Omar rushed to hide away any dissent, not because they were pro-Israel, but because they were anti-Netanyahu.)
Biden has continued pressuring Israel to stop judicial reform.
President Biden in a statement to Axios called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to move forward with the planned Israeli Knesset vote on a bill that is part of the government’s judicial overhaul, saying he is highly concerned about the legislation and its potential implications.
Biden urged Netanyahu in a phone call last week to try and get a broad consensus for his judicial overhaul legislation. According to two sources briefed on the call, Biden told Netanyahu he isn’t the only one concerned about where the prime minister is taking Israel, many Americans are too.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who on Sunday returned from the U.S. where he met with Biden and discussed the judicial overhaul, is making a last-ditch effort to reach a compromise between the government and the opposition on the legislation.
He has proposed watering down the bill so it will leave the Supreme Court some authority to review government decisions on the basis of reasonableness.
Note the ‘reasonableness’ line.
What it really means is that the Supreme Court is able to overturn decisions reached by elected officials because the leftists on the court (who select their own membership) think they’re not ‘reasonable’.
Imagine in the United States if the Supreme Court had the unlimited power to take any case and to overturn any government decision, not based on the Constitution, but based on its own opinions. Then imagine that the Supreme Court could select its own members. This is the nightmarish situation in Israel which the Left has done everything to uphold because it keeps on losing actual democratic elections.
When Israel’s leftists elites and their foreign allies shriek that democracy is under siege if their courts can’t supersede democratically elected officials, what they really mean is that democracy is besieging them.
With the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, moving to pass judicial reform, some of the country’s biggest companies announced that they were going “on strike”. There was a time when strikes meant workers protesting a handful of entrenched elites, now it’s the elites going on strike to protest the workers.
There was no depth to which leftists proved unwilling to sink including organizing ‘strikes’ in the military and among doctors.
Despite everything, the ‘reasonableness’ standard in which judges can overturn anything they like on a whim (or more likely because they’re leftists who support terrorists and oppose Israel) has been partly rolled back.
The Knesset passed a key piece of the coalition’s judicial reform legislation into law on Monday.
All 64 members of the coalition, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was released from hospital on Monday morning following a procedure to implant a cardiac pacemaker, voted in favor. Opposition lawmakers boycotted the third and final vote.
The amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary limits the Supreme Court’s use of the so-called reasonableness standard. It bars “reasonableness” as a legal justification for judges to reverse decisions made by the Cabinet, ministers and “other elected officials as set by law.”
That story comes from JNS. Apart from it and IsraelNationalNews, the rest of the media coverage has consisted of hysterical propaganda and smear campaigns. That includes even formerly pro-Israel outlets like Israel Hayom and Jerusalem Post who are corruptly lying, smearing and defending the abusive status quo.
(If you don’t believe me, here’s a sample of the rhetoric that’s now routine at Israel Hayom.)
Netanyahu’s ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox religious allies say the package is meant to restore power to elected officials. Critics say it is a power grab fueled by various personal and political grievances by Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption charges, and his partners.
Ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox. Not much more needs to be said about Israel Hayom’s current leftist orientation.
The Biden administration considers it “unfortunate” that the Israeli parliament ratified part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contested judicial overhaul plan on Monday, a White House National Security Council spokesperson said.
That’s one way to know it’s a good thing.
The bottom line is ignore the lies and smears in 99% of the media. That includes even Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom, never mind garbage like the Times of Israel, and ask what the bottom line is.
The bottom line is judges being able to rule unilaterally.
There’s nothing democratic about that. Judicial reform is not an attack on democracy, it’s the downfall of a tyranny.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good job, Israel. Had I been an Israeli, I’d probably have supported it: this falls in the same realm of judicial overreach that some countries w/ British legal systems, like India and Israel, have run into. There, judges, who are totally unelected and selected just by their own old-boys clubs, make laws out of thin air and even engage in judicial activism. In India, you have the chief justice of their supreme court actively campaigning to recognize gay marriage, despite widespread opposition in all states
However, since I’m an American, I’m content to simply oppose our interference in the internal affairs of other countries, whether it’s Israel w/ their judicial reform, or Uganda over their criminalization of homosexuality. And then we wonder why other countries often prefer China or Russia over us. Well, they don’t give moral lectures worldwide about democracy: they simply engage w/ those countries and whatever regimes they have
MD Anthony says
Amen, Amen, Amen
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden had revealed his total lack of wisdom about the State of Israel when he said that “We still need a two-state solution. It is the only answer.” Biden had by saying that fool statement has shown what an ignorant man he actually is. On that other hand ,maybe he’s just evil
Joe Biden sure is the divider and chief and not just when comes to him dividing the American people into different political and social “camp.” For even on the international foreign level Biden is that awful divider.
For Biden backs and supports the awful scheme to divide the State of Israel into two. Meaning the so called “two state solution” is not really a valid idea and not a genuine solution. It will definitely not stop this awful Israeli –Muslim land conflict.
Thus a “two state solution” is out of the question. .This is because a “two state solution” not really a “solution” but an Islamic ploy of deception , a smokescreen and hoax and a fraud.
For example those Hamas rocket attacks in to Israel from Gaza reveals that even the idea of some people of dividing Jerusalem as well as other parts of the State of Israel between the Jewish people of the Muslim/ Arabs is nothing but folly. To engage the madness of such “talks” is a hoax and a farce .This is because in the so called “negotiations” between the heads of the Jewish nation of Israel and the leaders of the “Palestinians” the Muslim /Arabs the “Palestinian” leaders will speak the truth only when in happens to fit their agenda. The rest of the time the will be speaking half-truths and outright lies. For their goal is to obtain all of the land of the State of Israel. Even in it takes much time and it means getting the land piece by piece. Therefore, those “peace talks” are a hoax.
For the “Palestinian” leaders are employing what is the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya . Which is the Islamic dogma that lying and deception are good things to do as long as it’s done for the cause of the advancement of Islam. The insidious scheme is part of the stealth jihad .Otherwise known as “Islamic Gradualism.” This sly and something subtle strategy of disingenuous speech, lying deception of achieving the goal of all the land of Israel a war ploy that will be a disaster if the heads of the State of Israel are foolish enough to agree to divide the land of Israel with Muslim /Arabs ,the “Palestinians.” For if such a “peace dialogue” results in a divided land, the outcome will literally be murder. For “Palestinian” leader will allow the jihadists use that land as a base to launch murderous rocket attacks in to Israel. As for example, Hamas of Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Such false hopes for peace which are based on the foundation of lies are nothing new when it comes to Israel. For example, the Bible in Psalm 55:20, 21. Reads “Such men do violence to those at peace with them and break their promised word; their speech is smoother the butter but their thoughts are of war.” [N.E.B.]
terry says
He is evil, as is much of those involved in Globalism, Marxism, Islamism, and Narcxism: all very Luciferian in world-view.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden says that he’s “a Christian” but he denies that Jews prayers at Judaism’s holiest site is appropriate, is Biden so very ignorant and outright stupid that he doesn’t know that Jesus Himself was a Jew ? Maybe Biden does know that but being a godless and wicked man doesn’t’ care.
Likewise Biden keeps on pushing for a for a division of the land State of Israel , which is so false called “the two state” solution.
That fool idea contradicts the Wisdom of Jesus Who taught that “If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.” Mark 3:24. [N.E.B.]
Transmaster says
It is becoming apparent that Joe Biben is in stage 2 alzheimer’s disease. He has very little to do with what he is saying but is parroting what his handlers are telling him what to say. His obvious disability displayed in the UK were King Charles II had to take him in hand as Joe was lost in his own mind. The thing that is so scary is the VP is totally unsuited for taking over the job.
Ren says
This is a great day for Israel.
Shalom says
Absolutely.
Reziac says
If it’s a credibility contest, I’ll take Netanyahu over Biden any day.
Deodata says
Quite right Infidel, the gov’t should run the country, not the judicial hierarchy. The judges weaken the power of Israel, a slippery slope.
Devasur says
Same reform should be done in india too.Put an end to Woke Judge atrocities.
Hoi Polloi says
Congratulations to anyone who defies Biden, aka BHO 3.0, both of whom need to stay out of the affairs of others. Unlike DC and its criminals, the citizens of flyover country want to focus on what’s best for the US, inside and including its borders.