Israel’s assault on Gaza refutes forever all claims that democratic rights can be defended in Israel other than through a movement centred on opposition to the systematic and bloody dispossession and repression of the Palestinians, and rejecting any support for the Zionist state and all its political representatives.
When you look past the dramatic decision to strike down a Basic Law, the ruling makes a clear and unprecedented statement about the limits of Knesset power.
Arguing that the law, an amendment to Basic Law: The Government limiting the conditions under which a sitting premier can be removed from office, the Court ruled that the law
This decision refocused our attention not only on the specific law it struck down but also on the unfinished business of completing our country’s constitutional framework