by Joel E. Pollak
The chaos on the streets of Israel today is a preview of what will happen in the United States if a Republican, especially Donald Trump, wins the presidency in 2024: the left will try to make the country ungovernable.
To summarize: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was re-elected last year, after he was supposed to have disappeared due to several frivolous prosecutions championed by his political opponents. (Sound familiar yet?)
When he returned to office, with a bigger majority than he had enjoyed before, he vowed to take on the forces that had conspired against him and his party: namely, Israel’s own “deep state” in the judiciary and legal hierarchy.
Judicial reform has long been a simmering issue in Israel. In the 1990s, the liberal Supreme Court began to assert broad powers to overturn legislation and review executive decisions. It did so more and more brazenly.
Over time, the judiciary — which effectively controls the appointment of judges — became a bastion of left-wing power in Israel, holding the line for the secular, urbane elite against the growing religious, nationalist majority.
This “juristocracy” caused many Israelis, particularly on the right, to become frustrated with democracy: what use was there to voting for a government, after all, only to see the courts overturn everything it tried to do? Read the rest at breitbart.com.
