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@aaron i just fled israel. No surprise.
@realcaseyrollins @freemo @aaron
Step one of a programme to (1) limit judicial/constitutional review of Laws (2) appoint cronies as Justices (3) limit powers to prosecute corrupt politicians.
Checks and balances, and the separation of powers, would be weakened, strengthening the executive and legislature vs the judiciary.
The protesters think the government will then screw their rights and freedoms.
The Army seems to support the protesters, the police does not.
I disagrewe with the analysis.. Teh cronies heading up judicial review want absolute final power... the cronies that make up their parliment likewise want absolute power.
BOTH solutions are a failure as they wind up with one side having the final say and still no constitution... They should be arguing for a constitution, anything less is just corruption from 2 different ends.
@aaron @Akshay @realcaseyrollins
Im not sure they ever knew to be honest... israel is foubded on the very idea that genocide is justice. Thry never wanted a country that served its people, because it cant even define its people in a way that isnt wrong from thr get go.
@freemo @Akshay @realcaseyrollins there was equality written into it at the beginning. It didn’t last long. It’s certainly gone now for sure.
@aaron @Akshay @realcaseyrollins
Equality will never thrive in a coubtry that is fubdamentally against equality in its very birth. Even more so when the need for that inequality exists to this day.
@freemo @Akshay @realcaseyrollins the Palestinians were meant to be a part of Israeli society in the beginning. But that never really happened.
@freemo @aaron @Akshay Not sure if I agree with this take; if I understand the story of modern day #Israel correctly, it was created using land occupied by Palestinians, that previous belonged to the Jews but was abandoned after they were all rounded up during #WWII. The #UN basically seized the land and gave it back to the Jews once they were freed from #Nazi #Germany.
Do I have it right?
@realcaseyrollins @freemo @Akshay it’s a bit more nuanced than that but yes sort of?
@realcaseyrollins @aaron @Akshay
Sorta, depends what and when you mean seized. If you are talki g about being taken from the jews 2000 years ago, sure... in modern times, no, there was no significant population of jews in israel for a very long time before ww2.
To out it in perpsective in the decades leading up to ww2 israel had 10x more palestinians (arabics) than jews.
@realcaseyrollins @aaron @Akshay
Palestinians were living there as a peace nomadic people, clean, minimal cities, etc. They had outnumbered the jews in the state for many decades and many there were proud of the many generations they have lived there.
Then one day the un came in and told thrm it was someone elses land, someone who hadnt owned the land or been a majority of the populace in thousands of years... then the wars started...
@realcaseyrollins @freemo @aaron @Akshay
either you have secular gov or women are .. well.. in trouble. kids too: 5 days ago — Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann carried out $200k renovation on Trump's most prized NYC property on Wall Street.
@freemo @Akshay @realcaseyrollins Israel has forgotten how democracy works. For ALL of the people. Not just the gentried classes. Not just the “most Jewish”. Everyone who lives there.