Every time the citizens of Israel have the opportunity to win a public speech by the President of the Supreme Court Ester Hayut, I leave all my occupations, mine my ears like an eardrum, and my heart fills with the hope that here it is.
Here it will finally happen.
Here, the Honorable President, who all proves that she is a wise and decent woman, will say what she needs to say: a matter-of-fact reference to the harsh public criticism against the judicial system and dealing with the allegations.
One is to me what will be her reference.
It doesn't matter at all how you attack the claims and what you answer.
The main thing is that you take the matter seriously and respect more than half of the country's citizens who raise any problem regarding the conduct of the judicial authority at the constitutional level.
We were excited by such an opportunity this week as well, when the president spoke at the legal conference in Tel Aviv.
As usual, I braced myself for a surprise that would come, and as usual, it was shy of coming.
You have disappointed again, Madam President.
You sang the same Maus song again, with the same shrill fakes.
"Unfortunately, in recent years the attacks on the judiciary have been increasing, and they intensify during the election period and become a crucible to dig into in order to obtain political gain. In fact, in this context, we are witnessing a worrying global process that can be defined as a phenomenon of democratic 'climate change'. This process is not The state of Israel has also been overlooked, and it is reflected in dangerous attempts to politicize the justice system and erode public trust in it."
no no.
There are no "attacks" on the judiciary in Israel as part of some global trend that democratic intellectuals in the US enjoy being disgusted by.
Israel has a very concrete crisis that concerns very specific questions, and is unique to our social and political structure.
The crisis has a name and an address well known to the honorable president, and it revolves around the differences in attitudes between the activists and the conservatives.
Not all critics of the judicial system are aware of these differences, but all of them strongly express a strong suspicion, which has something to base it on, regarding the political motives of the judicial system and its leaders in the last 30 years that caused them to pump excessive power towards their institution at the expense of the legislators.
And this suspicion, it must be said, is not an opinion article or a comment to the order, nor even an investigative article in a newspaper.
This suspicion has long since crystallized into a rule of real damage to public trust to a degree that could collapse the ground from under the feet of the judicial system, since it, as we know, has no existence without public consent.
And what is beautiful is that President Hayut knows very well everything that is written here (if not, it is really very sad).
She knows and appreciates continuing the insulting hand-waving that has been going on for so long, instead of going beyond it - once!
- from this custom and make history.
(Adding in the margin of my opinion the response of the spokesperson of the Supreme Court: unfortunately, in recent years the attacks on the judicial system have been increasing, etc., etc.)
were we wrong
We will fix it!
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