The Supreme Court said that's not reasonable, and so it couldn't be done. INSKEEP: Our colleague Daniel Estrin gave an example of this recently, that there was an attempt to put someone in the government who'd been recently convicted of a crime. This is why they came with this idea in the beginning. And this is what they are willing and interested in doing. That means that, for instance, they can nominate non-legitimate people for important duties and so on. And what was happening yesterday is that the only effective way of the judicial system to overrule or to reject decision which has no reason in them taken by the government, basically, is now no longer there. So the only checks and balances system has to do with the law system and the judicial system. I would also like to remind maybe the audience or tell the audience - people may not be aware - that the only check and balances that the Israeli system has on the government activities are coming from the judicial system. Is that what your concern is here?īRESSLER: Exactly, and completely emptying the soul, heart of the democratic values, the liberal values from every authority and every, you know, constitution - institution and constitution, basically, of the state. When you say in Poland and in Hungary, you're talking about democratic states where there was a leader who has become more authoritarian, removed checks on his power over time. INSKEEP: I would like to explain what you're saying to an American audience or remind people if they don't follow it closely. And if they proceed, and they intend to proceed - they tell us that they intend to proceed - then we will be remaining with an empty democracy with no heart, actually. I wish we shouldn't have to, but what they started yesterday is basically a salami routine similar to the one that took place in Poland ahead of us and in Hungary. Can you go on after that defeat?īRESSLER: Yeah, well, we have no choice. They outvoted your side, which walked out. INSKEEP: There is a sense in which the majority in the Knesset would like to say this is over. Physicist Shikma Bressler has become a leading figure in the protest movement, and she's on the line from Israel. Netanyahu says he will begin a dialogue now with opposition politicians over the remainder of his judicial changes. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies passed a change that effectively increases their own power. INSKEEP: Some of the sounds of the past day, and we've heard similar sounds for months. UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting in non-English language). Doctors and lawyers are among those objecting to the parliament removing a check on its power. People of all ages are protesting in Israel.
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