Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul, a decision that threatens to reopen the fissures in Israeli society that preceded the country’s ongoing war against Hamas.

Those divisions were largely been put aside while the country focuses on the war, which was triggered by a bloody cross-border attack by Hamas. Monday’s court decision could reignite those tensions, which sparked months of mass protests against the government and had rattled the cohesion of the powerful military.

In Monday’s 8-7 majority decision, the court narrowly voted to overturn a law passed in July that prevents judges from overturning government decisions they deem “unreasonable.”

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It was before this…

    He tried to say judges can’t over rule his government, and there was mass protests and he was about to lose power.

    Like a month later his government completely dropped the ball and an attack happened.

    He was hoping to pull a George Bush.

    Instead Israelis are remembering his policies are what got them here.

    The tough thing about Israeli democracy, is far right extremists all over the world gets to move there and start voting as long as they’re the right religion.

    So they have had a near constant infux of rightwingers for decades who aren’t tired of war because they just showed up yesterday.

    People against Netanyahu aren’t going to move to Israel just to vote against him.

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      10 months ago

      I’m sure it doesn’t help that he’s letting the military slaughter the Israeli hostages that were taken on 10/7 as well. That alone was the end of his rulership. He should fear his next election. If he’s not removed before that.

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      10 months ago

      The country was literally established by extreme right-wing zionist ideals. Read the book “The 100 Years War on Palestine.”

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        No, it was established because the Allies didn’t particularly want a Jewish population in their countries even after WW2.

        So they “gave” them Israel, with the bonus of knowing it would be a magnet for religious attacks due to its location.

        So now to avoid WW3, the world powers had a place for proxy wars that also happened to have an insane amount of fossil fuels and easily bribable governments.

        The whole thing was/is fucked. And generations of people have been caught in the crossfire, and we’re still looking at WW3.

        Plus Israel now has those nukes they won’t admit to openly…

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        10 months ago

        That’s just another biased take that selectively chooses a different narrative.

        Read at least several books from different perspectives and make up your own mind.