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This law was passed specifically to allow Aryeh Dery to ignore the terms of his plea agreement and serve as a minister. It's not related to the Jewish-Arab demo

by pliny 3y ago

This law was passed specifically to allow Aryeh Dery to ignore the terms of his plea agreement and serve as a minister. It's not related to the Jewish-Arab demographic balance (which, within the 67 borders, is about 85-15).

tootie 3y ago
That's technically true but also myopic. This was an explicit step to weaken the judiciary, strengthen the hard right and also indicted PM. This move is not explicitly anti-arab but it greatly empowers anti-arab leaders at the expense of democratic fairness. And rather severely at that. This was a canary. The next bill be worse and the one after worse again because they know they can't be stopped.
thazework 3y ago
As the current government is making abundantly clear, 67 borders are irrelevant. There are roughly the same number of Jewish and Arab people within the territory Israel controls.
adrian_b 3y ago
In the past the Israeli justice has been reasonably independent of the government, as can be seen from this long list where Aryeh Dery figures prominently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_public_officials_convicted_of_crimes_or_misdemeanors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_public_officia... Even if the law passed now might have only the tactical goal of promoting Aryeh Dery once more, it certainly will allow the government to do unsanctioned in the future other things that could be much more harmful.
paulusthe 3y ago
This law is intended to prevent the judiciary from finding settlements unreasonable. Aryeh Dery is the cover story.
- invalidname 3y ago
  Exactly. The right wingers plan to annex the territories without giving the Palestinians citizenship. It was literally in their election platform!
  - paulusthe 3y ago
    OP was being disingenuous at best, as if the country could be brought to a standstill over a minor legislative change to allow one guy into Parliament

by pliny 3y ago

tootie 3y ago

That's technically true but also myopic. This was an explicit step to weaken the judiciary, strengthen the hard right and also indicted PM. This move is not explicitly anti-arab but it greatly empowers anti-arab leaders at the expense of democratic fairness. And rather severely at that. This was a canary. The next bill be worse and the one after worse again because they know they can't be stopped.

thazework 3y ago

As the current government is making abundantly clear, 67 borders are irrelevant. There are roughly the same number of Jewish and Arab people within the territory Israel controls.

adrian_b 3y ago

In the past the Israeli justice has been reasonably independent of the government, as can be seen from this long list where Aryeh Dery figures prominently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_public_officials_convicted_of_crimes_or_misdemeanors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_public_officia... Even if the law passed now might have only the tactical goal of promoting Aryeh Dery once more, it certainly will allow the government to do unsanctioned in the future other things that could be much more harmful.

paulusthe 3y ago

This law is intended to prevent the judiciary from finding settlements unreasonable. Aryeh Dery is the cover story.

invalidname 3y ago
Exactly. The right wingers plan to annex the territories without giving the Palestinians citizenship. It was literally in their election platform!
- paulusthe 3y ago
  OP was being disingenuous at best, as if the country could be brought to a standstill over a minor legislative change to allow one guy into Parliament