PHOTOS: Israelis Rally for Netanyahu's Judicial Reforms
Thousands of Israelis rallied outside the country's Supreme Court on Thursday evening to support Prime Minister Netanyahu's judicial reforms.
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Thousands of Israelis rallied outside the country's Supreme Court on Thursday evening to support Prime Minister Netanyahu's judicial reforms.
From the blog of Lawrence Nowosenetz at The Times of Israel
INSIDE POLITICS: Benjamin Netanyahu is considering issuing a unilateral statement that the judicial reform will be frozen, hoping this will lead to a compromise. But no one believes anything he says.
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The Israel Supreme has become a major mobilizing source for the weekly mass protests against the reform that have been taking place in the last six months in many Israeli towns. Tens of thousands of liberals and conservatives rally around this institution, if not around anything else, confident that the Court is capable of preventing the government from irreversibly breaching the democratic walls. Unfortunately, this confidence is both unfounded and likely to sabotage the anti-reform movement. Given its past rulings and when keeping in mind the conservative nature of the institution of the Isr...