From new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of the Supreme Court. And as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times tom friedman and with Emily Bazelon 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 or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zygar. But first, here is my take. The Mystery Disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations about be determined not just by american policy, and what is happening domestically in the United States, such as the president ial election campaign, it will also be shaped by developments in china. Which at this point are opaque but troubling. From what outsiders could tell, china is reverting to a mild era style of
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
It wouldn t interfere with teaching purely religious subjects and not serve in the military and the right wing jewish supremacists want the court out of the way so it won t interfere with their attempts to seize a more palestinian land and build more settlements and to legalize more wildcat illegal israeli settlements. that is what this is about. and it is fair to say that these people are on the streets because there are very few limits on an elected government in israel. there is no written constitution, there is no upper house, no senate, there are no state governments. this is what you have. and that is why people are out on the streets, because the street is where you could be heard? well, you can t make this up in some ways, fareed. the supreme court s ability to basically curtail government excess is this reasonableness cause that comes out of british law. why would a government want to get rid of a reasonablist cause
In israel. there no written constitution and no upper house and no senate and there are no state governments. this is what you have and that s why people are out on the street because in a sense, the street is where you can be heard. you know, you really can t make this up in some ways, fareed. the supreme court s ability to, basically, curtail government excess is this a reasonableness caused that comes out of british law. why would a government want to get rid of a reasonablist cause that the court enjoyed unless they wanted to do things that were unreasonable? that s what the israeli public understood and netanyahu s been saying this is a small thing, this is a little thing. nonsense. this was a power grab. it had nothing to do with legal reform. none of of that is on the level. if you wanted to do legal reforms and if you wanted to do the israeli equivalent of a constitutional amendment in the united states oh, my goodness, you would have done that over a long period of time and