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2021-10-23T22:53:17.314Z


Since the 1980s, the power of the electorate has eroded in favor of the legal bureaucracy. In two laws that Justice Minister Gideon Saar will place on the Knesset table, he is about to infringe on our leadership authority in the future. Her time will be allotted, and we will be forbidden to choose her again. It will not be able to gather enough power and defeat the "yes, Mr. Prime Minister" people, who are today called the "Deep State" people. And if she is still threatening the bureauc


In two laws that Justice Minister Gideon Saar will place on the Knesset table, he is about to infringe on our leadership authority in the future.

Her time will be allotted, and we will be forbidden to choose her again.

It will not be able to gather enough power and defeat the "yes, Mr. Prime Minister" people, who are today called the "Deep State" people.

And if she is still threatening the bureaucrats of all kinds, they will be able to handle her accusations and prevent her re-election.

If the Knesset adopts Saar's harmful proposals, our leadership will be subject to an unelected bureaucratic elite.

It will be especially submissive to jurists.

Our affairs will be decided more closely according to their values ​​and interests, as well as those of officers, economists and other senior officials.

There is an assumption here, innocent or manipulative, that the "enlightened" serve "objective" interests.

The forefathers of the American Constitution knew something deeper about the nature of political man.

Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, and their comrades realized, as wise and suspicious as they were, that a power entrusted to any person to act on behalf of the public could corrupt him.

every person!

Judge and Prosecutor, Minister and Legislature, President, State Comptroller and CEO, Army Commander and Governor of the Bank.

The power of a democratic state lies precisely in the fact that no one has unlimited power, neither the prime minister, nor the attorney general, nor the Supreme Court justices.

They all need to be regulated by a system of balances and brakes.

Like the heads of the executive branch, judges may stumble, God forbid.

This is what happened when they followed in Aharon Barak's path and seized illegal rule and legislative authority, according to Supreme Court President Moshe Landau.

Even prosecutors like Shai Nitzan could sweep the hierarchical organization they head into gray, or black districts, like Ruth David.

Therefore, in a democracy it is essential to limit any power to another power. It is true that this system of restrictions must not lead to paralysis. The power of the judiciary to monitor the lawful operation of the government must not be silenced, or the governance of our elected leadership must be silenced. These reciprocal restrictions are therefore an arena for a constant struggle over the boundaries of power between the authorities and the functionaries. But in Israel there was a crushing unilateral defeat of the elected echelons. Since the 1980s, the power of the electorate has grown alarmingly in favor of the hierarchy of bureaucrats on the issue, headed by the legal bureaucracy, lawyers and judges.

We have seen an ongoing process of reducing the power of the Knesset, to the point of challenging its exclusive authority to enact basic laws. Eventually, in the last three decades, the government has also weakened. It is unable to implement immigration policy as its voters wish, for example. It is unable to control the settlement policy in the territories or the current security policy in the western Negev. The court decides, for example, whether and when to protect localities, and whether to privatize prisons. Tomorrow he will clarify between the government and the army on whether to attack Iran. There will be no need for a "Harpaz document," and there will be no need to settle strategic disputes by indirect legal means. Instead, the members of the Plugata will come to the Supreme Leader, sorry - to the Supreme Court.

Assault laws enter this reality and beat fatally under the authority of the elected leadership.

They should be seen as a preliminary procedure for tightening jurists' control over politicians.

In order to roll back the undemocratic imbalance between the judiciary in charge and the elected executive, powerful leadership is required.

In order for it to intensify, it needs a longer tenure, and this will be cut short by the law of "elegance", without the public understanding what is being done to it.

And to strengthen control over prime ministers who may not know their place, the attorney general will be empowered to prevent the re-election of an incumbent prime minister through his criminal indictment.

The danger is clear.

We must thwart it now or in the next election.



Source: israelhayom

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