Nadene Goldfoot
Staging stormy protests, tens of marchers outside and opposition members in the chamber overnight 0, called the 63-47 passing of the “government’s judicial coup” on Monday, Feb. 20, a “death blow to democracy.”
PM Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday was “an important and great day” and called for negotiations with opponents without prior conditions.
Netanyahu has been prime minister earlier 2 different times previously. ; born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Israel since December 2022, having previously held the office from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021.
Leaders of the opposition before Netanyahu's new term were:
| Prime Minister | Naftali Bennett Yair Lapid |
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That is the NEW government's coup, made up of Orthodox member groups. They are suspicious of their changes.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid pointed to pro-law coalition voters, saying “History will judge you”.
Benny Gantz: “A black day for democracy.”
Vocal members of the opposition rallies outside the Knesset and other parts of the country vowed to step up their campaign against “this key landmark in time since the state was founded” and “a betrayal of the Declaration of Independence.
In the Declaration was a section on borders that is interesting:
The borders were not specified in the Declaration, although its 14th paragraph indicated a willingness to cooperate in the implementation of the UN Partition Plan. The original draft had declared that the borders would be decided by the UN partition plan. While this was supported by Rosen and Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, it was opposed by Ben-Gurion and Zisling, with Ben-Gurion stating,
"We accepted the UN Resolution, but the Arabs did not. They are preparing to make war on us. If we defeat them and capture western Galilee or territory on both sides of the road to Jerusalem, these areas will become part of the state.
Why should we obligate ourselves to accept boundaries that in any case the Arabs don't accept?" The inclusion of the designation of borders in the text was dropped after the provisional government of Israel, the Minhelet HaAm, voted 5–4 against it.
The Revisionists, committed to a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan River (that is, including Transjordan), wanted the phrase "within its historic borders" included, but were unsuccessful.
63 lawmakers voted destroy the House [Jewish Homeland],” they shouted from a sea of blue and white national flags. 47 voted against it.
The Jewish Home (Hebrew: הַבַּיִת הַיְהוּדִי, romanized: HaBayit HaYehudi) is an Orthodox Jewish and religious Zionist political party in Israel. It was originally formed by a merger of the National Religious Party, Moledet, and Tkuma in November 2008.
This appears to be a fight between the religious and the non-religious but nationalistic parties, and this reflects Judea and Samaria and the villages, towns and cities that have been built by more religious Jews aware of their historical history who favor living there again. The area is divided into 3 sections, a,b,and c. C is for building by Israelis, but Arabs have been encroaching on land here and also building. A is for Arabs, B is for both. The problem is that all of Judea and Samaria are eyed by the Palestinian Arabs as their future state of Palestine. Their Palestine is to have absolutely no Jew allowed to live in it. The Orthodox have risen to the occasion and want to be allowed to live in their areas without attacks from Arabs, protected by Israel. It was their original homeland. Jews are from Judea, after all.
Levin announces sweeping proposals to severely curtail judges’ powers; claims court’s intervention in decisions, Knesset laws harms democracy; opposition warns of ‘political coup.’
The reform bill’s author Justice Minister Yariv Levin pledged:
“I won’t be deterred from pressing forward with my effort to repair the justice system so that it is no longer the province of elites and the aristocracy but belongs to everyone.”
He called on opposition members to show responsibility and sit down and talk, because,” he said, “understandings can be reached.”
1.One of the first sections passed would deny the High Court the prerogative to inpede at will parliamentary legislation.
2. and the second would give the government coalition a majority on the judge appointments panel. These sections face two more readings before being passed into law while further sections are yet to be put to the vote in the plenum.
To be more specific:
He specified change in four core areas:
1. Restricting the High Court’s capacity to strike down laws and government decisions, by requiring an enlarged panel of the court’s judges and a “special majority” to do so, and including an “override clause” enabling the Knesset to re-legislate such laws unless all 15 justices unanimously ruled to strike them down;
2. changing the process for choosing judges, to give the government of the day effective control of the selection panel;
3. preventing the court from using a test of “reasonableness” against which to judge legislation and government decisions;
4. allowing ministers to appoint their own legal advisers, instead of getting counsel from advisers operating under the Justice Ministry aegis.
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Declaration_of_Independence#:~:text=The%20Israeli%20Declaration%20of%20Independence,Agency%20for%20Palestine%2C%20and%20soon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewish_Home
https://www.timesofisrael.com/justice-minister-unveils-plan-to-shackle-the-high-court-overhaul-israels-judiciary/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu#:~:text=info)%3B%20born%2021%20October%201949,again%20from%202009%20to%202021.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftali_Bennett
https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennett-we-made-a-tough-decision-but-it-was-the-best-for-the-country/
https://www.debka.com/judicial-reforms-opening-stage-carried-63-47-in-first-knesset-reading/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomination_and_confirmation_to_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States#:~:text=The%20Constitution%20does%20not%20set,considered%20by%20the%20full%20Senate.
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