Politicians are democratically elected. That is their stamp of authority. Army officers are not. They need to prove that they are worthy of their soldiers' trust.
Read the Government's response explaining why the reasonableness law will not cause Israeli officials to be subject to prosecution by international bodies
At every critical point in the last 15 years, Supreme Court rulings subverted government policy and crippled the government and legislature's ability to solve the problem.
Investigative journalist Akiva Bigman speaks to the central players involved in passing the Basic Dignity Law in 1992 that facilitated Justice Barak’s power grab.
"Reasonableness" is a doctrine created by the Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak as part of the "constitutional revolution". It has no foundation in Israeli legislation.
Blue and White Future is hiding its original goals. Its current funding of judicial reform protests raises questions whether it has violated Israeli law.
A psychological warfare operation is being waged those protesting the judicial reform. They are trying to manipulate the population by redefining basic ideas in society.
Contrary to the academic, political, defense and media establishments’ dogma, the is no Arabic demographic “time bomb”. There is, however, unprecedented Jewish demographic growth
Senior Fatah leader, Jibril Rajoub, was recently admitted at Ichilov hospital. While Israel has a humanitarian policy of helping to treat Arabs from the PA and Gaza, treating Rajoub is immoral.
PLO Chairman Abbas admitted recently that the Palestinian Authority was behind all Arab terrorism in Israel. Unsurprisingly, his admission made the headlines nowhere.
When Israel celebrates 71 years of restored Jewish national independence, it bows its head to the 23,741 Israelis who have been killed in action defending the national freedom of the Jewish people. While the price is high, the price of lacking Jewish national freedom was always incomparably higher.
Netanyahu's declared limited goal of ‘ensuring the peace and security’ of the south is a problem. The goal should be total victory: A complete and utter defeat of the enemy. Anything less, as the past 15 years have amply proven, will only lead to escalation.
The Jewish Ethical monotheistic ideology eventually defeated the ancient cultures: Rome converted to Christianity, and Islam was created. But it only fuled the nations’ need to delegitimize Judaism and to cast blame on the Jews.