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This is a really extraordinary article.
All of these months the Israeli Left and the media have been howling that judicial reform which means rolling back the unlimited authority of the country’s Supreme Court, was a coup and a threat to democracy. Mostly the media and politicians in this country have echoed those lies.
Here the New York Times breaks from that narrative, admits that judicial reform makes sense, and that the only problem is who’s carrying it out.
In their details, the judicial changes that Israel’s Parliament passed yesterday sound like something that liberals in the U.S. and democracy advocates around the world might support.
Israel reduced the power of its Supreme Court judges, who until now could use the vague standard of “reasonableness” to overturn policies enacted by government ministers. Going forward, democratically elected leaders will have more power, and unelected judges will have less. Conceptually, the policy is not so different from changes that many Democrats would like to implement in this country.
This is exactly what I and the remaining sane people have been saying. The “reasonableness” standard is a blank check for unelected and self-selected judges to rule in place of democratically elected governments.
And Democrats who keep talking about packing the Supreme Court in this country rant that Israel’s government checked some of the unlimited power of its court.
The New York Times starts out by admitting this basic reality, judicial reform is legitimate, and goes even further by admitting that the only issue is that conservatives are doing it.
The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (who’s known as Bibi) is the most right-wing in the country’s 75-year history, many observers say. Freed from judicial oversight, it will have the ability to push Israel further toward becoming a religiously conservative country.
It’s not an issue of principles or democracy, it’s a right-left issue. And the New York Times at least honestly admits that. Worse still, it’s an issue with the wrong sorts of people gaining power… democratically.
As our colleague Isabel Kershner, who’s based in Jerusalem, told us: “The basic divide is between the more liberal, largely more secular Israelis who want a pluralistic country with a tolerant and open society and the religiously conservative and right-wing forces who make up Bibi’s current government.”
They also make up parliamentary majorities.
Leftist parties have trouble getting elected unless they operate under false flag centrist parties like those of Lapid or Gantz that self-destruct once they cease to fool anyone. The Left ruled through the courts and governmental institutions which is why it’s freaking out ever so ‘tolerantly’.
So the problem isn’t “judicial reform”, it’s democracy. Everything else is a lie.
Leftists can’t win elections so they rule through unelected institutions like that court that are not accountable to anyone. Especially the people. And they’re protecting their coup by claiming to fight for democracy.
The New York Times finally admits what everyone in Israel knows.
Yeah, just an excuse to stage a coup.
Attacking the New York Times propagandists is something of a sport on the right side of the Internet. I understand the argument that Sodomite foolishness must be answered, but I don’t have to waist a minute of my time following such sword battling in the air. The NYT is a “woke” Democ-rat version of Pravda, the official organ of the defunct USSR’s communist party. The Soviet Union collapsed when the people stopped reading Pravda. In this regard, I would say that we have something to learn from the Russians. However, to say that the NYT is Pravda might set me up for a F.I.S.A. arrest warrant for spreading Russian disinformation and doing the bidding of Mikhail Gorbachev. Mercy me. Like the railroaded J6 defendants, I might be force-fed the NYT (or CNN) as punishment for the fake crime of “misspeaking.”
Thanks for reading the garbage NYT so the rest of us don’t have to. It is encouraging that they printed something close to the truth here. Apparently though, what they didn’t address is that the judicial reform protests are just a pretext for trying to overturn the results of Israel’s recent election. It’s the Israeli Left’s version of the American Left’s “Russian collusion” campaign.
I’ve seen video of all those protesters on the TV news. It’s hard to believe that many morons exist. Almost. Stupid leftists. Whenever the policies they favor are enacted, their lives get worse but they just keep doing it.
One of Evan Sayet’s rules of the Left is that they always favor the worse over the better. It’s how they roll. Their whole philosophy is one of negativity and destruction. Marx told his followers to “ruthlessly criticize all that exists.” His favorite line in literature was from Goethe’s Faust where Mephistopheles says “All that exists deserves to perish.” They’re just largely negative people who hate anything good and decent.
Once agin the New York Slimes lies to its readers the Old Grey Hag gets worse
One of Evan Sayet’s rules of the Left is that they always favor the worse over the better. It’s how they roll. Their whole philosophy is one of negativity and destruction. Marx told his followers to “ruthlessly criticize all that exists.” His favorite line in literature was from Goethe’s Faust where Mephistopheles says “All that exists deserves to perish.” They’re just largely negative people who hate anything good and decent.