Just a simple challenge to help clarify what's happening in Israel.
All I want to know from you...
Please list five 5 democracies, five democratic countries, that have a judicial system like Israel's is now.
The points that have to coincide (be the same) are:
1- Sitting justices choose who will be new justices.
2- Justices can decide according to their concept of "reasonableness." This includes overriding all parliament decisions, total veto power.
3- Cases for the Supreme Court can go there directly, without first going through lower courts
4- Attorney General can veto all sorts of government decisions unilaterally. Again with the rationale of "reasonableness."
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| Israeli Flags waving at the entrance of Mamilla Mall, not far from what had been the border between Israel and Jordanian Occupied Jerusalem from 1949-1967 |