Israel's Constitutional Moment
The Dispatch Podcast
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The Left's Proposal for a Liberal Democracy
Israel is this moral narrative in people's minds and not enough a real country that they think they have to actually engage in sophisticated, complicated ways. Some of the international coverage of this debate tends to elide the intractability of this moment because they would either want to paint a picture of the right stealing democracy or of the left being unreasonably recalcitrant against a government that they didn't like getting elected. The distrust for this government to pass this judicial reform cuts deep, deep into the coup, into the voter base.
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