Netanyahu Is Stuck Essentially Between Iraq and a Hard Place

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Netanyahu is stuck essentially between Iraq and a hard place. Polls show that 60% of Israelis object to these judicial reforms as they've been drafted. Netanyahu would love the reforms to go through, but he sees that they're not sustainable. He can't allow his coalition partners to abandon him because then he will be no longer prime minister.

Far-right judicial reforms have inspired what might be the largest protests in the history of Israel. If adopted, the reforms could spell the end of democracy in the world’s only majority-Jewish country.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Matthew Collette, Victoria Chamberlin and Siona Petrous, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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