by Bassam Tawil • Gatestone Institute • December 15, 2024
Some might view the judicial escapade against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in cases of trumped-up charges, as political payback for the prime minister’s having tried to reform the judicial system after he was last re-elected in 2022. The judicial reforms are desperately needed. Do these judges actually want Israel to lose the war just so they can keep their absolute power? Pictured: Netanyahu enters the district court in Tel Aviv at the start of his hearing on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
- [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] has not earned the title “The Churchill of the Middle East” for nothing.
- What is lethal for the country is that the judges ruled that Netanyahu must appear in court three times a week for at least six consecutive hours each time. All this when the prime minister is preoccupied with the multi-front war against Israel by Iran, its terror proxies, and now Turkey, which no doubt sees its proxy-invasion of Syria as a pathway to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s long-term dream to “liberate Jerusalem from the Jews.”
- Some might view this judicial escapade, in cases of trumped-up charges, as political payback for Netanyahu’s having tried to reform the judicial system after he was last re-elected in 2022. The judicial reforms are desperately needed, but would diminish the absolute power that Supreme Court judges arrogated to themselves starting in the 1990s, and which they appear autocratically determined to keep.
- Do these seemingly vindictive judges really think that Netanyahu’s cigars and champagne are not more important than Israel’s war against Iran’s “Axis of Resistance”?
- There is no reason for the prime minister to spend several hours a day in court now, when Israel is at war and he is successfully protecting his people from enemies seeking his country’s destruction and the murder of all Jews.
- Do these judges actually want Israel to lose the war just so they can keep their absolute power?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deserves an award for successfully leading the war against Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” in the Middle East. He has not earned the title “The Churchill of the Middle East” for nothing.
Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, during which 1,200 Israelis were murdered and thousands injured, Israel has destroyed most of the terror group’s military capabilities in the Gaza Strip and eliminated its top political and military leaders, including Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar.
I used to think that Yariv Levin was mentally ill with his idee fixe of the judicial reform.
It looks like I was wrong.
Dragging any head of state into court for days in wartime is nothing less than sedition.
As an example, I am sure there were plenty of people who really hated Stalin (and he deserved to be hated) during WWII, and, let’s say, they conducted a successful coup.
The result – the USSR folds, Hitler’s Germany rules the world, and we wouldn’t be now writing things on Israpundit, I don’t have to explain why.
BTW, this is how the Disengagement was achieved – by blackmailing Sharon.
stevenl.
You are 100% correct. They hate everything precious to us.
Both need a voodoo curse.
@ dreuveni I agree. If there is “separation of powers”, they should be be able to act as separate powers, and not be influenced or intimidated by each other. The check on the PM is the cabinet and the knesset, not the courts.
The Israeli legal system is a “fifth column” . Who are they answerable to, anyway?
Since these judges insist that they are a separate power in the separation of powers in the country and they insist on Netanyahu appearing before them 18 hours a week, he should insist that he is also a separate power in the country and ignore them if he is needed urgently elsewhere.
Leftism is as dangerous as Islamism.