Since its establishment, the State of Israel has not known a storm of demonstrations and protests lasting 3 months on any issue. Even the large demonstrations, regarding the reparations from Germany, which resulted in a grenade being thrown in the Knesset, not even the Wadi Salib demonstrations in Haifa, the Black Panthers in Jerusalem, or the demonstrations after the Yom Kippur War, against the war in Lebanon and in favor of peace with Egypt, the social protest and the protest of the Israeli Arabs every few years.
All of these aroused defined publics, sometimes also a wider consensus, but never did all of them feel such deep anger, and above all they did not express existential anxiety.
The anxiety for the very existence of the state
This time - the great commonality of the hundreds of thousands protesting, in such a sequence and all over the country, is indeed the fear for the very existence of the state and its essence, in other words - for their fate and their future in a country that is not founded on agreed fundamental values and above all - freedom and democracy.
the Declaration of Independence
Although Israel does not have a constitution, the set of values embodied in only one paragraph in the Declaration of Independence were perceived as a sort of agreed basis for the common existence of such diverse and divided publics in the country:
"The State of Israel shall be open to Jewish immigration and kibbutzim; shall focus on the development of the land for the benefit of all its inhabitants; shall be founded on the foundations of freedom, justice and peace in the light of the vision of the prophets of Israel; shall maintain full social and political equality of rights for all its citizens without distinction of religion, race and gender; shall guarantee freedom of religion , conscience, language, education and culture; preserve the holy places of all religions; and be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations."
Balance between the three authorities
Since no sustainable constitution was formed for generations, as in many democratic countries in the world, the balance was created between the three authorities accepted in the democratic world: the legislature, the executive and the judge mainly through the supremacy of the rulings of the court at all levels, and especially the supremacy of the High Court of Justice, the High Court of Justice.
With this right, the High Court protected not only the individual, his rights, the prevention of harm to him or entire communities affected by various acts of legislation and government, but above all it protected the state itself, its heads, ministers and commanders.
This is how the legal system protected Israel's representatives in the world
The strengthening of the Israeli court has become a model for many countries and international organizations.
The main argument of the state against any international move that threatens to harm it and its citizens in the world - is that every injustice attributed to Israel is investigated and judged in Israel by an independent court, free and independent of the government itself.
In this way, Israel's representatives in the world, the commanders of the army, the Mossad, and the Shin Bet - and in practice many other citizens as well - are protected from arrests and lawsuits by parties suing Israel according to various state laws, international treaties, and more.
The independence of the law, its supremacy and the manner of operation of the judiciary in Israel, for all its shortcomings, is the guarantee of Israel's independence and its existence as a democratic country that belongs to the international community and is a partner in the international fundamental treaties.
The reasons for public outrage
So what is the great anger about that summons crowds to the streets from all shades of society and its political spectrum?
On these three:
- on the very changes included in the bills.
- On the predatory, forceful and panicked manner of their transportation.
- For the defamation and exclusion of a protesting public who is actually the nut of the people, the builder of the state and its defender.
What are the main changes and what are their purely legal implications:
- Changing the Committee for the Selection of Judges: The committee now consists of 3 representatives on behalf of the government, against 6 who represent the bar association and the judiciary, where the majority needed to appoint a supreme judge is 7.
The composition proposed in the legal reform includes 7 (!) representatives on behalf of the government, against 4 representatives who are not on its behalf. The majority needed to appoint a supreme judge - 6 committee representatives... guess who will be elected - a free candidate or on behalf of the government? - Disqualification of laws and the superseding clause: The power of the court today is not limited to ruling according to religious judgment and according to the degree of plausibility of the case brought before it.
The political coup seeks to establish that in order to invalidate a law of the Knesset, a decision will be required Unanimously of 15 High Court judges, which is improbable in cases of fundamental and substantial disagreements.
If that is not enough, then according to the new bill, The Knesset will be able to re-enact a law that the High Court invalidated, if you get a majority of 61, and any coalition (almost) can muster such a majority for anything and everything and make the legislative and executive authorities, which are already controlled by the coalition, superior to the judiciary.
In other words: a dictatorship of a coalition in the 'best' case - and of one person in the worst case. - Cancellation of the cause of reasonableness: Judges will not be able to invalidate decisions of the government and local authorities, the IDF, the IDF, the National Insurance and any other authority in fact, on the grounds that they are unreasonable.
The meaning is that there is no protection for the individual, for publics in the nation and for third sector bodies against the arbitrariness of the government/ruler.
This is true for every aspect of our lives! Planning and construction laws, protection of the environment, nature, extreme deprivation and more. - Changing the authority of the legal advisors: The coup proposes that a legal opinion of the legal advisors in the government ministries and in general, will not obligate the government to act according to it and will remain in the status of advice only.
The legal advisers will be appointed by the ministers themselves as a sort of trust servant, like a CEO, and will not have intellectual independence.
In one sentence, the legal essence that is understandable to everyone can be summarized in simple language:
The proposed changes will weaken the legal system and the protection of human rights and minority groups will be harmed, lifestyles will be irreparably harmed, and a de facto dictatorial rule will be created.
If these plans are accepted and enacted, we will actually have only one authority - the Prime Minister, because the court will cease to fulfill its role in a democratic society, and its place will be taken by the tyranny of the government, including decisions such as: not holding elections!
The meaning of the violation of the independence and supremacy of the law in Israel:
It is difficult to exaggerate the negative significance of these changes.
There is hardly a single area that will not be fatally affected by the move in which Israel will be perceived as a non-democratic state by its own residents and by the Jewish people and the nations of the world.
First, these changes will create an irreparable rift in Israeli society and its social resilience will be fatally damaged. Inner strength is also the guarantee of outer strength, it is the nut of the nut on which its shell is woven. A strong army can only protect a country if its internal strength maintains its strength - otherwise it too will collapse inwards.
The highest value on which the social consensus in Israel is based are the same values of the Declaration of Independence above - it being a free and democratic country, protected by an independent and independent legal system.
The difficult feeling that accompanies the crowds of protesters, who come from all levels of society and its sectors, is that this basic value, without which we cannot exist and live here - is in danger and will be subject to the burning of the hearts of extremist ministers and MKs, who ignore all the warning signs with an unfounded arrogance and detached from reality lead us in grief Questioned, and that it is the agenda of this minority that will decide the lifestyles of the majority.
The escape from Israel
This rift, and the feeling that we do not belong here, will cause the flight of creators, researchers, scientists, doctors, engineers, hightists, entrepreneurs and all other builders of Israeli power - to the abandonment of forces whose entire existence is based on freedom, equality and freedom of all kinds: speech, movement, creation, artistic expression and others. The crisis expected from such an immigration movement will be enormous from any national security point of view.
Israel's position among the Jewish people in the world will also be dire:
Israel defines itself as the state of the Jewish people, and its entire establishment came to save the Jew from his fate in the diaspora for hundreds of years.
Although there is a contradiction in the very definition of the democratic state, as a state of one people, which has a dual national and religious identity, such a compromise has a broad consensus, and therefore we live with the oxymoron 'Jewish and democratic' and prove that it is possible, as long as the democratic component based on the separation of Authorities and supremacy is the judge.
The Jewish people in the diaspora, who unreservedly support Israel, will cease their automatic support, will not be able to identify with it, will not work for it in all Western countries, to protect it and will stop seeing it as the apple of their eye and the source of their pride.
His economic, political and moral support will be harmed at the same time - and he will not want to see her as a target and an object of desire. The extraordinary and flame-throwing speech of the head of the community committee in Italy proves that we are already there.
The loss of the protection of the USA and other Western countries:
European countries will stop recognizing it as a democratic country. The basis of sharing and support is not only geo-strategic. It is founded on a shared world of values, the highest of which is democracy in all its aspects.
Israel will not be able to expect that the USA, whose very existence is based on the value of freedom, liberty and the constitution that its residents and soldiers swear by, will continue to defend it automatically at the UN, at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, in other international organizations, and not even in the fight against Iran. Without all of these, Israel will become a state without a supporting power - a fundamental principle of Israel's national security theory from the moment of its establishment!
In other words, The government and its leader actually constitute a danger to Israel's national security on all the elements of the term. And all this - due to their desire for a governmental coup that will allow them to do whatever they want and bring about the end of democracy through constitutional changes that will dismantle Israel from its basic and agreed upon values.
And what is the true desire of the coup plotters?
The general public is also outraged by this, as they understand that not only the weakening of the court is the real motive for the coup, and not only 'revenge' at the High Court, but that the members of the current coalition have a future agenda regarding the nature and essence of the State of Israel.
Since the supremacy of the law is the layer that protects the agreed essence of Israel, then the first move is really an attack on the supremacy of the law, and the creation of a free platform for action to achieve more far-reaching goals than weakening the court.
The true essence of what some of the coalition's components are striving for is the transformation of Israel into a halachic state led by regulations and laws arising from the rabbinic world and the religious laws that will be determined by rabbis of all kinds, and the other part of the coalition strives to perpetuate the situation in the Yosh territories and curb any attempt at a political solution to the issue of relations with the people the Palestinian
Likud people
Between the ultra-Orthodox, who strive for a halachic state and the preservation of the youth of their voters, and between the extremist settlers who believe in an apartheid state in the territories, two elements that are non-Zionist and non-democratic by their very nature, are the people of the Likud - a deep-rooted Zionist party, many of whose supporters join the large protest in the streets every day since they did not have their eyes set on this coup d'état when they voted for her.
The Likud people are trapped in a trap The horror of being part of the social tissue of the protest - along with their desire to protect their political rule which is achieved only with the help of the non-Zionist and non-democratic bodies that share this rule with them. They too would not want a Halacha state, nor even the perpetuation of the situation in the territories in its current configuration, but they are in a trap that only brave leaders among them will be able to extricate themselves from. So far there are none, thankfully.
And why is the protest so angry?
And if we go back to the beginning of things, the current protest is so powerful, lasts so long, involves unrestrained rage and the diversity of dozens of bodies and associations, is not uniform and is not led by a political party, only because the public senses with its keen senses not only the legal, political, the economic and social aspects of the coup, but he understands very well the agenda that is expected to follow it, and he feels as if his life is being torn away from the safe ground on which it has been conducted until now, and what is the magnitude of the disaster that will befall Israel for its very physical existence.
There were no such feelings in Israel, not even in the longest of the wars, the communist war that lasted a year and a half, not even in the terrible war in 1973. Then and even then, the public knew that it would be difficult and that many would not get to see the end of the wars, but Israel would win and rebuild and rise again and again.
This time, the public is facing the hardest part of the wars we've known, a war over the essence and image of the country in which they want to live and be proud to be a part of.
And to all of this, there is also an inexplicable rage from another point of view, which stems from the attitude towards him from the ministers, MKs, and the coalition. Denigrating him as a ridiculed public of anarchists, refuseniks, 'leftists', and even 'terrorists', brings out from him emotions of anger and rage that only mobilize more And more layers to his ranks.
Loyal and law-abiding citizens
Everyone who participates in the protest knows and sees around them the State of Israel and Israeli society at its best. A community of recruits, volunteers, fighters, dreamers and builders, loyal and law-abiding citizens, whose personal handiwork was and still is producing Israel's economic, military and political strength, in all areas of life.
This is a public that is not ready for a coalition of criminals, corrupt, extremists, draft evaders and not producers, to define it in these definitions. And this time he is indeed no longer silent, and it seems that he will continue to fight for the state he built for his sons and grandsons, and for the Jewish people for generations. It will not cease until a new social contract is established based on a solid constitution, which guarantees Israel's character as a democratic state and as part of the nations of the enlightened, free world, and the supremacy of the law and its judges.
point of no return
It is with great pain that we must look at it and understand that we are close to a moment that is a point of no return - the moment when the Chief of Staff, the Commissioner, the heads of the Mossad and Shin Bet, the heads of the local authorities and every person will be required to make an impossible decision: who does he obey?
The government will make a decision, the High Court will reject it, the government will "overcome" it with the help of a tiny majority if at all, and then whose voice will we respect?
This is the real fear that is tearing the public apart, that threatens our existence and that is causing the anxiety and rage that is demonstrated in the streets.
God, if there is, we will besiege the State of Israel!
Of course the intolerant bibists are running to boycott. Instead of the original Likud, a party that included the liberals, a impatient and tolerant group has grown here that is happy to step on anyone who disagrees with them
Terribly sad, extremely important, where will our help come from?
Why does your university hate Jews?
He has no answer. This is the middle generation that was indoctrinated against the state in the late 60s by teachers from the extreme left who infiltrated the schools. And they have already entered positions of power to wrestle away a little more = the post-Zionist and post-Jewish virus with them is ineradicable. They are actually beating a sin that they are here, but the budget pension and the positions of power direct them to do harmful and extreme politicization..
Think of Ehud Barak and Olmert and Tsena and Ayalon.. and most of the lecturers from the privileged tribe are even worse than them.
Someone should really research this academically..
With all due respect, Yossi Ben Artzi, I knew him as a leftist from PAI or more left for him. Begin was a fascist in his own words, politically, he never shut up and we all knew his opinions. We are the same age and I know him since Scouts and the university.
A. There is no anxiety for the existence of the state
B. The demonstrations belong to a camp that does not know what democracy is - because it does not respect election decisions
third. There is no danger to democracy from the necessary reform to restore democracy and restore the separation of powers
d. For those who are not sure what the protest is about - the protest of the secular sector over the fear that their strongholds (the legal stronghold) are being taken over and the question is who decided that these strongholds should be exclusively in his hands and according to his moral/social/religious considerations what is "right" for the country?
God. Those who want a state "all its citizens" "secular non-religious" "without Jewish identity" - there are none in the world. Communism collapsed in on itself.
A simple and effective explanation, and this is still only part of the matter. Those who are still not sure that they understood what the protest is about, are invited to read and join!
In a democracy, there are 3 legislative, executive, and judicial authorities. The legislature is elected by the public. Knesset
The Knesset elects the executive body of the government,
The Knesset chose a judicial body to oversee the observance of the law as it stands!!!! The court's role is to resolve disputes according to law.
He does not have the authority to repeal laws, which is the role of the Legislative Knesset. And the government interfered in his work.
In doing so, she took over both authorities
The reform comes to regulate the relations between the authorities and outlines the jurisdictional boundaries of each authority.
A simple and ordinary popular democracy understandable to every person!!!
Yes, but go explain to the left that what has happened so far in Aharon Barak's governmental coup was undemocratic?
After all, it served them to saddle governments with endless petitions to their people at the top who ruled through a legal advisor over every government.
The motives of the left to maintain such an obviously undemocratic situation are completely clear.
And they still disguise those motives as "preserving democracy"
All the facts are true unfortunately.
It is not pleasant for the rightists who are reacting to say no to this King Phillano and they will get the cancellation of the Bull High Court in Pune, but you can calm down, there will be no Halacha state, even the young ultra-Orthodox will understand that there is no army, no economy and no desire to support parasites.
I know Prof. Ben Artzi from the university, he was one of my teachers, a man of values and wisdom above his age. Even the ignorant should delve into his words and respond factually and not from the gut
Burned out are the people like you who think they are better and smarter than others and include an entire population.
An ignorant or anti-Semitic nickname suits you better.
We don't like it
Dear Yossi,
I remember you as a respected commander in the military training course and it was really difficult and intense with you, but I always knew that you acted out of love for the country and belief in the righteousness of your path,
Asking you to help organize a non-violent and legal resistance, but determined and very strong, befitting a person like you.
This time you must not give up and you must act all the time until the wall of evil collapses,
I am available to help in any way!
Enough with the intimidation, this is not the reform.
It is the elite's fear of losing their power base.
Only the deep reform will cure the diseases/ and destruction of the left.
The corrupt High Court party must be disbanded.
Anxiety of the left
Error correction: I read
Another error correction - stakeholders. Now do you understand why core studies are important?
I call on the general public to stop these demonstrations. Those who stand behind the demonstrations are self-interested people. Good night and good week
Why stop the protests? Has the "reform" stopped in its current form?
A police coup was from 1992,
Since then, an unelected dictatorship has ruled here, with unlimited power, zero responsibility and 100 percent immunity.
the demonstrations. They are the result of privileged Belgian cowards who control the mainstream media, academia and the public education system. They are afraid of investigations that will reveal a. their nudity
The dictatorship from 1992-2023 is better than the dictatorship that you, Eyal Kobi, Tamara Sion and those I accidentally forgot are interested in. Or maybe it's better that we don't live in a dictatorship, what do you think? It is possible to reform in another way.
Funny.. We are in this situation precisely because your criminal prime minister is afraid of investigations.
Because of the appointment of convicted criminals, ex-convicts. shame!
Prof. Ben Artzi, who is your name to write in the name of the people "Anger of the people.."?
Your opinions seem to me to represent a minority in a nation that the media empowers and gives it a back wind, biased coverage, tremendous screen time.
In my opinion, "the majority of the people", even though they are silent, are in favor of the government and its actions, waiting for the laws and legal amendments to pass a third reading.
And what will happen after the laws are passed in the third reading?
Who will the army listen to? Who will the police listen to? The Shin Bet? The Mossad? To the High Court or to the government? Half here and half there?
You are living in a movie, we are on the brink of civil war!
Aligning slowly with the government. And with the majority of the people. What a civil war... a black seer like you... will be good.
Besides, most of the opponents are rich old leftists from Tel Aviv, most of the citizens in the rest of the country understand that the reform is necessary. So don't build on a civil war. Drink water, we are all brothers. The reform is important for strengthening democracy.
We are all brothers right. Strengthening democracy - it is clear to both me and my brother and sister that it is not. Optimism in its place - the reform will not pass in its current form, after some time of chaos it will be possible to establish a more enlightened and enlightened unity government that suits this nation.
The only political coup of our country
Made by the High Court in 1992. By
Aharon Barak Ltd.!
when he upset the balance between the authorities.
does not judge according to law but according to substance that corresponds to his agenda.
took over the elections and annulled their results
with arguments and idle notions of substantial plausibility. He established a division of family members and their friends around him and a stranglehold against the voting people and cancels laws that the Knesset enacts! This is the revolution!
What do you call democracy???
Corrections are needed to straighten the equation.
Bull in a pony! Smooth and to the point
Dieot Police is here:
Live here time and time again today brings up commentators and columnists with a radical leftist agenda against the important reform.
120 professors signed a petition in favor of the importance and importance of legal reform.
Almost 3 million in her favor and in favor of the government.
The right side is excluded and they are not allowed to appear on this site.
Correction: Leftist agenda. No radical.
The demonstrations prove that the people have their say....There will never be a dictator here. Because this is our homeland. Here we will live and here...
Good luck Yossi
Well, you've gone too far, live here. I have no interest in another biased propaganda channel that loads these "learned" opinion columns on me from every direction and takes an unequivocal side. "News Corporation". we heard
It was nice, download a follower.
Oh no!! We will miss you! Go to channel 14, I heard it's fun there.
Continue to take away from us the freedom of movement, expression and choice and at the same time say "Oh no, we will miss you",
The other party listens patiently and will respond at the right time and with the right intensity.
You're right, I didn't know until now that this was the shade of the site
Intimidation and interpretations, even the professor's bit, do not represent the whole nation. Only the loud ones.