Protest against judicial reform
In the dispute over judicial reform in Israel, which was accompanied by violent protests, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he wanted to end the ‘division of the people’.
In the dispute over judicial reform in Israel, which has been accompanied by violent protests, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he wants to end the “division of the people”. He wants to advance the reform planned by his government, he said in a televised speech on Thursday evening. However, everything must be done to find a compromise that is acceptable to both supporters and opponents.
“We cannot allow a disagreement, no matter how strong, to jeopardize our common future,” Netanyahu said. “The opponents of the reform are not traitors, the proponents are not fascists.” He wants to do everything “to calm the spirits and end the division of the people”.
The far-right governing coalition’s controversial plans aim to drastically limit the powers of the judiciary. Critics fear that the separation of powers will be abolished and that democracy will be undermined. There have been mass protests against the project in Israel for eleven weeks. On Thursday, tens of thousands of Israelis again demonstrated against the government’s plans in several cities across the country. There were again clashes between demonstrators and security forces, and in Tel Aviv the police used water cannons.
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