Latest / Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis
"Sure, we're a democracy, and that's nice. But the UAE, WOW!, they get stuff done."
Because Israel’s news cycle often mimics the lifespan of a mayfly (which lives for about one day, though some females apparently sometimes last only five minutes after reaching maturity and reproducing—at least so Chat GPT tells me), the changing-the-Attorney-General’s-locks stunt pulled by Justice Minister Yariv Levin last week now seems ancient history.
But we overlook it—or chuckle at it—at our own peril. Keep your ear to the ground around here for even a little bit, and there are signs everywhere that the rule of law in this country is on much thinner ice than we might imagine.
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