Why Israel’s planned overhaul of the judiciary is tearing the country apart

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Netanyahu, who has legal troubles of his own, says the judicial reform will make the legal system more responsive to the majority. Opponents see the end of democracy.

the eviction of Palestinians in a sensitive Jerusalem neighborhood. In other cases, rights groups say, it has upheld key violations of Palestinian rights.

The three bills will be voted on three times before becoming law. The first vote is expected early next week. The second and third could, if both sides agree to negotiations, take place only after several weeks. Earlier this month, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara sent a letter to Netanyahu ordering him to distance himself from the judicial overhaul due to the obvious conflict of interests. Netanyahu said he viewed Baharav-Miara’s directive as “unacceptable.”

“We can expect that after this reform is passed, Arabs will be discriminated against, there will be a separation between men and women, there will laws and maybe verdicts in the Supreme Court that will take away rights of the LGBTQ community. Material democracy will be harmed,” said Amir Fuchs, a senior researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute, who will speak at the Knesset deliberations on Tuesday, ahead of the vote on the override clause.

 

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Why that criminal was re-elected is beyond crazy.

Who reads the WP!

What a pathetic both-sides headline

White supremacy is on the ropes…everywhere.

ESPECIALLY COPS!!

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