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Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul, a decision that threatens to reopen the fissures in Israeli society that preceded the country’s ongoing war against Hamas.

Those divisions were largely been put aside while the country focuses on the war, which was triggered by a bloody cross-border attack by Hamas. Monday’s court decision could reignite those tensions, which sparked months of mass protests against the government and had rattled the cohesion of the powerful military.

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In Monday’s 8-7 majority decision, the court narrowly voted to overturn a law passed in July that prevents judges from overturning government decisions they deem “unreasonable.”

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[-] RadicalCandour@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago

I was a bit confused by this as well. How can the court overrule a law that prevents the court from overturning laws? It appears the court has given a huge middle finger to this law and is basically saying, “fight me”.

Netanyahu’s government could decide to ignore Monday’s ruling, setting the stage for a constitutional showdown over which branch of government has ultimate authority.

[-] Ab_intra@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

The nice thing about this is that Israel is destroying itself from the inside.

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