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Why Netanyahu critic Ehud Barak calls Israel's government "clearly illegitimate"

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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The Importance of Disobedience

If Netanyahu passes a law, it will be immediately canceled by the Supreme Court. Once they cancel it, it's a clear constitutional crisis with no institutions. The government will fund itself paralyzed by trying to change the regime. I always said the people to look at Marc Magandie or Martin Luther King and how a philosophy was deposed. If you can mobilize more than 3.5% of the overall population, which is about 7 or 8% of the adult population, keep protesting, the government within a year either capitulate or fall. That's exactly what will happen here. BB won't be able to turn Israel into the de facto dictatorship. We are not hungry. we are not

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