Call from Belgium. My husband’s grandfather is calling. A great uncle, witty, rude, reckless. A former scientist in the Soviet Union, a former bartender in Brussels, dressed in his usual dressing gown, shouts into the phone as usual:
– Congratulations, Israel is in all the news for the first time and for the first time with a positive agenda! All over the world, all the press is writing here about what real democracy is. All of Israel is on strike against judicial reform, we know, we know…
– Yes? We are in favor of judicial reform, if anything.
So are you fascists? Anya, do you hear, we have a fascist in our family! ..
After three minutes of deliberation (less, actually):
– Yes? Then write me as a fascist too.
He campaigned immediately.
– Well, another one.
– Why one? And Anya! Write the Nazis in Anya.
Anya is his charming wife, a true laughing lady. Former neurologist both in the USSR and in Belgium. Everyone knows what it means to get a medical degree in another country. There are people you can’t say anything but “charming”. I don’t know of other people with such a suggestive voice, probably Ole Lukoye has spoken in such a voice. A great match for the script. It’s loud, it’s quiet, it’s violent, it’s peaceful. Both are humorous.
Finally, Israel deserves a condescending tap on the shoulder: democracy, cho.
This is similar to the famous “what do I do” meme: “how does my mom see this”, “what do my friends think”, “how do I dream”, “how does it really happen”. And then, according to the situation, a funny contradiction is drawn between the four pictures.
Likewise, any event: in the media mirror; in the minds of people who get news from the media; in the presentation of counterparties; Actually.
Disruption upon deterioration…
For this reason. The Israeli attacks, as my mother saw it (crossed out), as presented by the media (and so it ends in the minds): Israeli judicial reform is the end of democracy. End the separation of powers. Netanyahu is building power for himself. Netanyahu will now appoint judges. In the past, judges were independent.
But Pasaran. Failed. Under pressure from all over Israel, judicial reform was delayed. In response, a pro-government rally of supporters, who were taken by bus, was held.
Actually, the Israeli attacks: Many people in Israel do not even know that there is any protest. (But the media around the world know). Bibi will not appoint any judges. They both appointed themselves and will continue to appoint. (No one chose and does not choose them). It’s just that there are more rightists in the (elected) parliament and more leftists in the (appointed) court. Today, left-wing judges have the right to interfere with the legislative activities of parliament and block any “correct” decisions they make. The reform seeks to prohibit the court from interfering with lawmaking. Judicial reform is simply the application of separation of powers.
Who will listen to you other than your own grandfather and his (beautiful) wife? It’s good that I haven’t argued with people for any reason in a long time, and for me there is no more questionable word than “beliefs”.
What’s happening? Why is this happening?
Yes, I understand your concerns. If you hold the parliament by the throat, you can rule for a long time. However, Bibi will not arrange any power for herself. Although it is a professional stabilizer on the string, it is not popular. Under three criminal cases. He won the unfortunate 61 votes in parliament at a very high price. He is remembered for Aliyah of the 90s, where he focused on Russian immigrants. Then the slogan was popular, literally and very distortedly translated from Hebrew into Russian, “Bibi is good for the Jews.” The Russians then added a comma to all posters. “Bibi, good for the Jews!” “Good” sounded “enough”. Since then, Bibi, a former commando and always charming, has learned to speak to Russian audiences.
But that’s not the point. An interesting change with the separation of powers. Judicial reform, according to People, means Bibi interfering with the appointment of judges. When this is clearly not the case and it is very easy to learn. When a person is unpopular, the most incredible rumors grow around him, and it is impossible to resist them. There is such a historian, Professor Boris Kolonitsky, among other things. She is busy professionally investigating rumors about Nicholas. And there are those who see this as a profession unworthy of a historian. But the rumors around are part of the political landscape, the same political factor and actor as “real events”. Because the “belief” that “Bibi wants to appoint judges” cannot be refuted by the claim that the judges will continue to appoint them.
And another, more difficult story. There is no right to speak. There is no language. The language in which the right will describe its position.
There is no intellectual who will be an opinion leader, who can find a language, whose voice can be heard. Right wingers do indeed share the language of today with the language of any Black Hundred evil spirit, and if you open your mouth you will immediately be called a fascist. It’s good that Anna is on our team now, living with the Nazis without her wasn’t all that funny.
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the editors’ position.