Our World: The Judicial Overthrow of Democracy, by Caroline Glick
Excerpts;
Sunday morning Israel Radio reported that a delegation of judges met with Justice Minister Haim Ramon and demanded that he defend them from what they consider to be unprecedented media attacks against them.
Last month in an interview with Haaretz, retiring Justice Mishael Cheshin had this to say about Chief Justice Aharon Barak’s view of human rights: “He is ready for 30, 50 people to be blown up – but we will have human rights.”
Of Barak’s view of the Court’s oversight of the Knesset Cheshin said, “For Barak, if the Knesset passes a law by a majority of a hundred to two, he can come and assert that the law is annulled.”
Cheshin attacked his colleagues on the Court collectively when he strongly hinted that his fellow justices’ political views were what kept them from overturning Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz’s decision last year not to indict then prime minister Ariel Sharon and his son Gilad on corruption charges. Of Mazuz’s decision to close the investigation of the so-called Greek Island affair Cheshin said, “I can say only that when someone gets $600,000 and the promise of $2 million more for surfing the Internet, [Gilad Sharon’s payments from businessman David Appel] one has to be a fool to think that he really received the money for that work.”
Of his colleagues’ decision not to overturn Mazuz’s decision he noted, “If Sharon had stood trial, there would have been no disengagement [from Gaza and northern Samaria].
SADLY, THE ideological conformity and anti-democratic tendencies that Cheshin admitted plague the Supreme Court extend throughout the judicial system and state prosecution.
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Commentary;
The Barak Court’s usurpation of the powers of the legislative branch, as well as it’s dictatoral and selective prosecutorial actions regarding free speech, free assembly in actions such as these examples; (1), (2),
(3), (5) are degrading whatever pretenses of ‘democracy” still existing in Israel and attempting to eliminate and destroy adherence to Torah principles as well and thus are a huge danger to Israel’s survival as a Jewish sovereignty. MB