It is now clear that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not only willing to risk plunging the country into a constitutional crisis, but is willing to pass anything that would enable him to pass a law that would allow his coalition to choose new Supreme Court justices.
This is what Israeli Haaretz columnist Anchel Pwerver puts it, highlighting that Netanyahu's real goal is to be able to decide who will be the judges who can, one day, not too long ago, hear an appeal in his bribery case.
Netanyahu seems to support these judicial amendments despite the Attorney General's warning that they represent a clear conflict of interest and therefore illegal and he insists on them despite warnings that this legislation poses a threat to Israeli national security, nor does he seem to care about the warnings of the entire financial and business community in Israel that such amendments will seriously damage the country's economy, all of which is in addition to the fact that the majority of Israelis in all polls clearly oppose The judicial changes that the Netanyahu government is pushing for.
Netanyahu, 73, is now the general president of a government of arsonists willing to set the country on fire just so they can tear down a judiciary that does not suit their agenda and establish their hegemony.
In a new development, Haaretz quoted sources in Netanyahu's Likud party as saying that the prime minister, whom she described as "besieged", held discussions overnight about the possibility of freezing the sensational law, after a wave of spontaneous nationwide protests erupted following Netanyahu's dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Galant after he called on him to halt planned legislative measures.
Netanyahu's ally and head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, Ari Deri, reportedly expressed support for stopping the operation, as did Likud ministers Ron Dermer and Yoav Kisch, who spoke to Netanyahu on the subject, according to a party source. But Justice Minister Yariv Levin threatened to resign if the legislation was blocked.
Meanwhile, the Degel HaTorah faction of the United Torah Judaism party expressed support for "the prime minister and his decisions," while the far-right coalition party Otzma Yehudit called on Netanyahu not to block the legislation.