Ruthie Blum, an award-winning columnist and author, talks with the founder and publisher of State of Tel Aviv, Vivian Bercovici, about the right-wing perspective post-election #5, including why the incoming government can be seen as a good thing, what’s right-wing about it and her thoughts on the controversy surrounding judicial reform.
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Ruthie Blum on the Right-Wing View Post-Election: Full interview
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Ruthie Blum on the Right-Wing View Post-Election: Full interview
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Viviene Birkovitch, who is the one conducting the interview with Ruthie Blum, makes the following closing remark:
Birkovitch’s suggestion that the Right wing govt is not the group to perform judicial reform, ignores the reality that this was a major point of political discussion upon which the outcome of this election turned. So, according to her supposition, despite the fact that the Right having won the election with a sizeable electoral mandate to pursue judicial reform, we should ignore the will of the people and wait for a consensus which will never come, despite the fact that the actions taken by the Legal Fraternity to support the Left with their lawfare tactics and incestuous appointments is completely contrary to the public’s will. No, I don’t think so.
As Birkovitch would like to wait for a consensus on legal reform, that reform is needed currently – not in one year or one month but now. The reckless actions by the Judiciary act to maintain the failed policies of the Left, even as the Left have lost every potential of maintaining these policies without the Judiciary acting as a stop gap measure against the public’s will. As the public have drifted further and further from the Left, the Judiciary have taken on greater and greater authorities to save the Left from the public’s repudiation of their policies, thus forming a need of judicial reforms to counter the action of the Judiciary which are turning the nation into a juristocracy.
Earlier in the program, Birkovitch expressed a desire to form a body with members of the Right and the Left to pursue a balanced approach to Judicial reform. This is also a ridiculous notion, since the Left doesn’t want reform and the Right does. Lawfare, as exercised by the Legal Fraternity in Israel, supports the Left and attacks the Right, so as the public become less and less supportive of the Left, why would the Left ever support any move towards a reform which would only act to curb the only remaining element of their control within the govt. Simply put, they wouldn’t.