If you have to rate the speech that Aryeh Deri gave yesterday at the demonstration of support in the Knesset, it gets a score of 7.5 on the "I blame" scale.
Admittedly, this is a behavior that is very far from the policy adopted by the chairman of Shas during his investigations and trial in recent years, in which he humbly accepted the court's decisions.
However, he still did not come close in his speech to a complete break with the system.
Thus, for example, Deri mentioned twice in his speech respecting the High Court's ruling, which invalidated his appointment to the Minister of the Interior and Health. The so-called, no tricks and no tricks.
Despite his dismissal from his positions in the government, the show of support in the Knesset was intended to present things from Deri's point of view: "I am here to stay and no ruling will change that."
However, the execution is a little more complicated from the point of view of the Shas chairman.
In chambers, lawyers are working on a solution that will allow Deri's return to the government.
The result, it seems, will be launched in the next few days.
Levin's dream
Yariv Levin has been working on the legal reform for nearly twenty years.
In Levin's dream, it is discussed with legal tools only without linking it to Deri's legal affairs or to the trial of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. But things have changed.
Levin understands, and also said so, that without the Netanyahu trial there would have been no public understanding of the need for legal amendments.
Yesterday, Smotrich came and in a sentence that was pushed to the margins, he spoke about the attempt to engineer democracy with legal tools.
The Minister of Finance promised on that occasion: "We will fight this in the matter of Deri and also in the matter of the Prime Minister."
High Court of Justice, photo: Reuters
In other words, following the disqualification of Deri's appointment in the High Court, the power of the judges is being talked about. Each one has become an expert on the reason for reasonableness, and the diversity of the composition of the Supreme Court has also floated to the surface. It is impossible to disconnect the reforms from the legal-political happenings and there is nothing to hide it anymore .
The archive against the torch
Meanwhile, the archival materials continue to abuse Yair Lapid.
These days the social networks are exploding with sentences he said in public - just before he said the exact opposite.
But when it comes to the issue of legal reform, the networks no longer need to go to the archive and find out materials, in just a few days Lapid changed his mind 180 degrees.
On Sunday, the chairman of the opposition explained in an interview that there is nothing at all to open negotiations on the legal issue, because everything is aimed "only to save Netanyahu." Just less than two weeks ago, he scolded Gantz for his willingness to conduct negotiations on the reform.
However, yesterday Lapid already changed diskette and called on President Herzog to establish a committee to discuss legal amendments within the framework of the reform.
Consistency is an important tool.
That's not how you run a war.
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