Caroline Glick Israel Self Reliance

Caroline Glick: ISRAEL’S ‘GATEKEEPERS’ VS DEMOCRACY A powerful group of unelected, self-appointed “gatekeepers” challenging foundations of Israel’s democratic order…….


 

As in the US, the power-hungry Left is destroying functioning governmental institutions and societal organizations…

 

COLUMN ONE: ISRAEL’S ‘GATEKEEPERS’ VS DEMOCRACY

A powerful group of unelected, self-appointed “gatekeepers” is challenging the foundations of Israel’s democratic order.

BY CAROLINE B. GLICK
 DECEMBER 6, 2018 20:58

Israel has no written constitution – but all the same, it is steeped in a deep and dangerous constitutional crisis. In the balance hangs nothing less than the country’s ability to remain a democracy, where the people elect their leaders and the elected leaders govern the country.

Presently, a powerful group of unelected, self-appointed “gatekeepers” is challenging the foundations of Israel’s democratic order. These self-empowered “gatekeepers” seek to end Israeli democracy by acting as a wedge between the people and their elected leaders and preventing those leaders from using the power vested in them by voters.

The present crisis was revealed starkly on Tuesday in an otherwise unimportant and deeply boring hearing on Israel’s dairy industry at the Knesset’s Economic Affairs Committee.

But to understand what happened, it is important to go back to November 5. That day, Deputy attorney-general Dina Zilber was asked to represent the position of the government regarding a controversial bill that would block state funding to artists and productions that campaign against Israel. Rather than present the government’s position, Zilber brutally attacked the bill. In an outburst entirely bereft of legal argumentation, Zilber effectively said that Israel was losing its soul.

 

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