Protesters baited the main highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem with barbed wire and chains and prevented train doors from closing.
Apart from the appointment of justices, the proposals, presented early last month by Justice Minister Yariv Levin, also call for cancelling the so-called “reasonableness measure” by which the Supreme Court can strike down any law or government action it deems “unreasonable.”
For example, the court ruled it “unreasonable” to allow religious Jews to pray on the Temple Mount – Judaism’s holiest site – because doing so would anger the Arab world.
Sounds to me like the protesters are using illegitimate methods to advance an illegitimate cause. The Supreme Court should not have a foreign policy, especially not one that gives Israel's enemies a rioter's veto over the rights of Israelis. If you blockade the capital because your government is refusing to be cowed by foreign terrorists, you deserve the tear gas.
Who cares? It's Israel. Let them deal with their own problems.
Sounds to me like the protesters are using illegitimate methods to advance an illegitimate cause. The Supreme Court should not have a foreign policy, especially not one that gives Israel's enemies a rioter's veto over the rights of Israelis. If you blockade the capital because your government is refusing to be cowed by foreign terrorists, you deserve the tear gas.