This is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of israels Supreme Court, and as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times Paul Friedman about the politics involved and with his colleague Emily Bazilon about the legal issues. Then the secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the good news and the bad news from americas Southern Border. Finally, did President Putin lose or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zigov. But first heres my take. The mysterious disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister qin gang is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations will be determined not just by american policy and whats happening domestically in the United States such as the president i
we have a separation between the executive and the legislative branches and we have a written constitution that s really hard to change. none of thosz things exist in israel. there is one house of parliament, the knesset. it is very much connected to the executive branch because the prime minister leads the party that rules the guesset and there isn t a written constitution, the ordinary majority of parliament can change what are called basic laws that have a kind of con sstitutional statusn israel and for those reasons the israeli supreme court as a protector of minority rights and the check on the rule is crucial and that s why these reforms from this right-wing government of netanyahu have such dramatic impact and have generated such a swell of protest. people say that the supreme court and israel have sort of abrogated to itself powers, but in a sense the american supreme court did that.