What’s Behind Israel’s Unprecedented Protests with Edo Konrad
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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The Role of the Courts in Israeli Governing
In Israel, the power of the government is far more centralized. There has been very few checks on its power. And so no, the idea of kind of undoing thePower of the Supreme Court and allowing the government to decide who will be a justice on the Supreme Court is one of these tricks. You literally have American libertarian far right conservatives in conversation with the Israeli far right as they've always been in saying, this is how you undo the judiciary. So we don't have that kind of checks and balances, but it's a far weaker system in Israel. But the far right wants to undo even this small version of a check in the Israeli system in order to make their dreams come
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