Israel on ‘brink of constitutional collapse,’ president Herzog says
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I like to think the USA is a democracy the same way Israel is. We both have elections, peaceful transfers of power, guaranteed freedons. Yet somehow the hard right is always in charge.
lol what
Maybe you don’t like what the government is doing, and fair enough, but you seem to be conflating that with the other team.
I think we have a pretty centrist, self interested government, and the monolith does not like to change.
As a country we are even against heroin smuggling drug warlords, unless they happen to be convenient to national security. Then we become pro heroin smuggling drug warlords.
Whatever the hard right decides is in it's interests, whether it's coke smuggling to fight the sandinistas or smuggling rocket scientists out of Germany, the hard right is always in charge.
Not sure the legal structure in Israel, but all the pedantic whining by the tech people seems a bit trite. It was Bibi who reinvented and ignited the tech industry in the early 2000's, and the only thanks he gets in this article is a thorough ESG beating because tech brings in too much income tax, is unequal, and isn't diverse enough for these lazy writers.
The more interesting question is WHY is Bibi doing this?
Is he being persecuted, legally? Is he guilty? Is this a legit protection against a rogue judiciary?
This could happen in America. After all, the federal government is a coequal with the judiciary. The government doesn't have to listen to the courts. Technically.
That's what he likes to say, doesn't make it true.