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Tens of thousands contest judicial reforms in Israel

AAP — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:36:21 +0000

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets again in Israel to protest the government’s controversial judicial reform. At the central rally in Tel Aviv, demonstrators chanted “democracy” while waving white and blue national flags. Several participants also re-purposed the Italian protest song “Bella Ciao” into “Bibi Ciao.” “Bibi” is the nickname for […]

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The urgent need for Israeli electoral reform

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 05:19:55 +0000

Democracy is currently being undermined in many parts of the free world. In Israel, the threat is deeper and wider than either side will admit, given the near-civil war that has erupted over the government’s proposed judicial reforms. Enormous demonstrations against the reforms have been taking place in Tel Aviv and elsewhere over the past […]

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Israel is our business

Bruce S. Ticker — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 04:55:31 +0000

Israel’s Six-Day War disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu’s graduation plans at Cheltenham High School, located less than a mile from the Philadelphia neighbourhood where I grew up. I recall reading that he skipped his graduation in June 1967 so he could fly to Israel and risk his life in defence of his native land. Now Netanyahu is […]

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Recycling

Michael Kuttner — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 04:18:46 +0000

When one thinks of recycling, the generally accepted definition is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products. As Israel is yet again admonished to cease the so-called “cycles” of violence, it seems that the above explanation is nowadays most apt. After […]

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Dangerous times, and they are of our own making

Ron Weiser — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 22:37:09 +0000

I can’t recall having seen such a tumultuous first 60 days of any new Israeli government. Ironically, after numerous inconclusive election results, which at the time were described as causing instability, the current situation with a majority coalition has seen instability increase. The demonstrations are indeed large but not unprecedented. In 1982, for example, when […]

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Netanyahu slams ‘explicit threat’ by protest leader to murder him

JNS — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 04:15:38 +0000

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night harshly criticised what he said was a “growing wave” of threats directed at himself and other officials, after a leader of the anti-government protests appeared to call for his assassination. “It seemed that all boundaries had been crossed by threats against elected officials and myself, but this […]

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Netanyahu: Claims judicial reform will end Israel’s democracy are ‘baseless’

JNS — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 05:17:38 +0000

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected as “baseless” claims by critics that his government’s proposed judicial reforms would mark the end of the country’s democracy and vowed to implement the plan “responsibly.” “The truth is that the balance between the branches of government has been violated over the past two decades,” Netanyahu said […]

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Mind the Gap…writes Michael Kuttner

Michael Kuttner — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:29:53 +0000

Everyone traveling by train or underground will be familiar with the announcements of “mind the gap.”

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