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Today we will have a debate the current situation in #Israel. Since weeks people in #TelAviv #Jerusalem and other cities demonstrate against the legal reform of the new #Netanyahu government
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/k_langensiepen/status/1635629538213339136
What does the government want to change?
▶️seeks full power over the appointment of the nine-member committee that selects the judges of the Supreme Court
▶️wants to give the #Knesset the ability to override court decisions by a simple majority
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/k_langensiepen/status/1635629868934131712
▶️give ministers authority to appoint legal advisors in the ministry as opposed to the attorney general doing so.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/k_langensiepen/status/1635629913536360450
Why is it problematic?
Experts agree that a reform of the judiciary system in #Israel is necessary, however, not in the shape, form, and process now proposed by the government.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/k_langensiepen/status/1635630307486449665
▶️The Ultra-Orthodox resent the Supreme Court for putting limits as to their priorities : complete exemption from military service for religious men studying the Torah, more power of religious leaders, gender separation in public places
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/k_langensiepen/status/1635630596125777926
▶️Netanyahu: evade punishment from bribery, fraud and breach of trust and the respective trial that started in 2021
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/k_langensiepen/status/1635630720113582082
And:
▶️Generally #women, the #LGBTIQ+ community, minorities as well as business/ tech sector that relies on investor confidence risk to lose from a weakened judiciary
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/k_langensiepen/status/1635630885440479233
We as @GreensEFA are worried about and demand :
▶️#Israel's membership in the club of democratic countries is its crucial political, security and economic asset for itself.
▶️#Israel’s relations with the #EU are defined as a values-based partnership between liberal democracies,
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/k_langensiepen/status/1635631668437319681
and as an #economic and #political partnership, a fabric of mutual trust in institutions that depends on the rule of law. The democratic character of the State of #Israel must therefore be guarded with the greatest of vigilance
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/k_langensiepen/status/1635631749253439489
We must be solidarity with the democratic movement in #Israel
#LGBTIQ #LabourRights #RuleOfLaw
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/k_langensiepen/status/1635641968905576448
▶️Right wing nationalist forces: resent the Supreme Court for striking down laws that legalise settlements in the West Bank (NB: the current government in their coalition agreement outlined its claim over the whole West Bank)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/k_langensiepen/status/1635630681777750017