
How to Stop a Dictator: Upholding Israel's Judiciary || Peter Zeihan
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The Judiciary Reforms That Benjamin Netanyahu Was Trying to Push Through
Peter Zion: The judicial branch is always the block that prevents authoritarians from rising to power. He says if you want to hang on to power, break the independence of the judiciary. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been trying to push through a series of corruption investigations but his own defense minister stood up and said this has to stop. In other countries in play with the same sort of factors are Brazil in the U.S., he says.
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