Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Pressure on Netanyahu as union calls 'historic' strike" video.

  1. The people voted for reform. Only the elites, that have benefitted from the inequality caused by the partisan courts, are against reform.
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  2. So many comment here demonstrate people do not understand what is happening. Israeli judges are appointed by a committee made up of current and former judges, and members of the bar association. The people and the people's elected representatives, unlike in most countries, have no input about who becomes a judge or justice. Unlike in the US, where the president appoints the chief justice, this undemocratic, oligarchical committee appoints the chief justice. All this court reform would do, is allow elected representatives, of both the government and the opposition, to appoint some of the members of the judicial appointment committee. While this will not totally restore democracy, it is a small move away from all control of the country being in the hands of self appointing tyrants. Israel, like the UK, has no constitution. Most countries, that lack a constitution by which to measure laws, don't allow their courts to overturn laws passed by the democratically elected parliament. And that is how Israel used to be. But, as the citizens of the country moved away from her communist beginnings, the courts kept to their soviet like ideology, and decided they would just take the power to overturn any law they didn't like, based upon their own ideology. Further, as the judicial appointment committee also appoints all governmental legal advisors, and the attorney general, they used that to strengthen their control over the government. They ruled that the advise of these illiberally appointed advisors was binding. So, if the country elects leaders to accomplish a certain task, the unelected advisors block them. This effectively makes the vote of the people moot. The country is controlled by a very nepotistic, partisan and corrupt appointment process, that means you may only advance if you have the "correct" (ie. communist) ideology, are not religious, and are from the "correct" background (ie. Ashkenazim from Russia). If you are a Likud member, or a darker skinned Israeli (Mitzrachi) you can never advance. What underlies this whole debacle is a desire of the entitled, light skinned elites, to keep a monopoly on well paying jobs, and exclude darker Israelis living in the periphery. Those against the reform have the same attitude as those southern parents, who march against school integration. If you're for equality, if you're for justice, if you're for the Rule of Law, you have to be for the judicial reform.
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  3. Then you are in favor of court reform, and the restoration of democracy and the rule of law.
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  4. No, the dictators are the unelected judges. The people want court reform. You clearly are ignorant of what is happening.
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  5. No, this is a very bad thing, it is against democracy.
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  6. How about a recall for the unelected judges. This government was very recently elected, to enact court reform. That is what the majority want. How about the US stops funding the protests, and lets Israel handle her own internal affairs?
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  7.  @adam6072  And those rich elites are the ones fighting against change to return the country to democracy.
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  8.  @rezadaneshi  In this case, the unions are the tool of the oligarchs, who hate democracy.
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  9. The government has already been overthrown, via a soft coup from the self appointing judiciary. These are fights, by the elite, against restoring democracy, and granting all Israelis equality, in opportunity and income.
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