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  Whatever happened to that indictment?
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  JERUSALEM - Over 1,000 senior Israeli air force veterans, including a former Israeli chief of staff, on Monday urged the country's top legal officials to stand tough against the incoming government.
  In a letter to the chief of Israel's Supreme Court and other top officials, they said the alliance of religious and ultranationalist parties threatens Israel's future.
  Among the nearly 1,200 signatories were Dan Halutz, who served as military chief from 2005-2007; Avihu Ben-Nun, a former commander of the air force and Amos Yadlin, a former head of military intelligence.
  
  
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  Yup. Because this ultra far right govt will fuck shit up now. Two state ~~solution~~ discussion is dead and things will be bad for next few years, esp for Palestinians. >
  
  I tip my hat to the Israeli air force. Feel the same way you do about it, and that is not a fun feeling. >
  
  Funny how democracy suddently becomes "not fun" when it doesn't go your way. >
  
  I don’t know. Two far right parties promise to pass a law that will retroactively protect Netanyahu from his corruption case. 
  I’d say it the opposite of democratic. >
  
  
  Over 1,000 senior Israeli air force veterans, including a former Israeli chief of staff, on Monday urged the country’s top legal officials to stand tough against the incoming government.
  
  Netanyahu, someone who belongs in jail, is leading one of the most right-wing, terroristic governments Israel has ever seen. Opposing these violent, genocidal bigots is an intelligent and rational position. >
  
  Whatever happened to that indictment? >
  
  The trial is ongoing (Israel doesn't have "defendant has the right of speedy trial"). 
  How it's going? Let's put it this way: in the last 6 months media that opposes Netanyahu avoids reporting on it, while the media that supports Netanyahu reports constantly. I don't think there is a need to spell out why... >
  
  Nah dude, I follow it on opposition and independent media all the time. They are actually quite optimistic and keep saying the prosecution is winning, even in the battles the pro Bibi media claims as detrimental to the prosecution, usually there's a legal win that was ignored in the pro Bibi article. As an Israeli lawyer I tend to agree with the "prosecution is winning" narrative, as the legal case is substantial and they are gaining most of their legal goals, but they are suffering great losses in the public opinion battle.
  Bibi is gonna be Israel's OJ.
  For most people, their political belief will determine how they feel about the results of the trial. >
  
  I don't see any chance of this being "Israel's OJ". We are not talking about some comedian being on trial. When one puts on trial a politician that gets as much support of the people as Netanyahu does, the public opinion battle is critical. When the public opinion battle is lost, then it is not accused who is on trial, but the judges.
  I did a very simple exercise. After one witness testimony, I read the coverage in anti-Bibi media, the coverage in pro-Bibi media and then took the actual protocols of the testimony and read them start to finish. There was only minor difference between the pro-Bibi media coverage and reality, while there was 180 degree difference between anti-Bibi media coverage and reality. To put it simply, anti-Bibi media ignored cross interrogation, that actually nullified everything that the witness claimed in her initial testimony.
  Edit: BTW, all the protocols are freely available on "tolaat ha-mishpat". >
  
  So it is not just the US with this problem >
  
  Best I've heard is it just always swings back n forth. A period of freedom will lead to people wanting more rules, then those rules will eventually drive us to want freedom again. Can't break the cycle. >
  
  Freedom doesn't make people not want to be free.  That sounds like an excuse written by fascists for why they are supposed to get their turn now. >
  
  You're looking at it wrong. People exercising their freedom makes others dislike how they are doing so. "Don't be free like that!" That's when the authoritarians step up to stop it, as a reactionary response. >
  
  I mean you may be right but you're not talking about the same thing as the pendulum people. >
  
  Wait - isn’t this the government (a conservative one) that the Israeli people voted for?  I get why people would be concerned, but we have to accept the results of the vote. >
  
  First off no, it doesn't really have majority votes but that's a technicallity, they do have majority in the Knesset.
  That aside, just having majority doesn't mean you can ignore the core principles of democracy.
  By that logic they can just make a law stating no more elections, they stay in power, would that still be considered a fine move that people shouldn't oppose because they were voted for? >
  
  I’m not well versed - but what did they do to “ignore the core principals of democracy”? >
  
  The main uproar right now(which is what caused these Air force members alongside many doctors to come out) is that one of the agreements of this goverment is that they'll rewrite a law forbidding racism.
  You will be allowed to deny service to people based on your belief, one MP also said that doctors should be allowed to not treat people if it goes against their reiligious view.
  Banning people from basic human rights and equal rights.
  That aside they are also trying to remove the abillity of the supreme court to oppose them, giving them effectivly absolute power
  Alongside giving one MP direct control over the police and some military units, allowing him to decide who will be detained and investigated and who won't. >
  
  I get it about the MP who said that LGBTQ+ shouldn’t be cared for.  That person is an absolute asshole.  I will research the rest of this - thanks for the info! >
  
  She is.
  Funny thing is, in Nethanyahu's party they have a gay person who has yet to speak out against these agreements or any of these statements. 
  It goes to show how truly little these people (politicians in general, not any specific side) care for the group they are supposed to represent. Just making sure to get their paycheck and maybe care for some of their close friends >
  
  The new Israeli Government might be just a tad on the extreme side. >
  
  Right wingers have a proclivity to authoritarianism and only pretend to care about democratic values?!
  surprised Pkachu face >
  
  The incoming government is the far right one. >
  
  Can’t bibi just stop running for office? >
  
  Thats how he gets rich and avoids jail. >
  
  Just stop giving these assholes money. Real simple. That'll slow them down real good. >
  
  Capitalism begets authoritarianism. This is what the already rich assholes are spending their money on. >
  
  Am I misunderstanding this?
  As I read it, it seems a bunch of old people don't like the results of the election, and are looking for judicial ways to ignore the vote of the people?
  
  While they have not yet completed coalition negotiations, Netanyahu has reached a series of deals that would grant his far-right partners authority over the national police force and settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.
  
  So the government that was voted for, but has not yet reached a coalition, is looking to protect some of their members from prosocution from crimes they are accused of, which sounds like a page from every countries politics since the beginning of time.
  
  They also are expected to promote a series of changes in the legal system that critics say will weaken the judiciary and potentially dismiss criminal charges against Netanyahu. >
  
  ...so they're just describing the entire history of government in Israel, from my perspective.
  EDIT: It's a nation that was formed on religious grounds and has always been a borderline theocracy, that has been engaging in a war of genocide for decades but I'm the bad guy. Ok. >
  
  you are not wrong in the slightest, but I'm not surprised people will downvote here. >
  
  
  While they have not yet completed coalition negotiations, Netanyahu has reached a series of deals that would grant his far-right partners authority over the national police force and settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.
  
  it's almost like they learned NOTHING of 70+ years ago... >
  
  Here is a list of all the things Bibi's coalition is trying to do right now, wity the big 3 down below:
  Disband the public broadcast network,
  To help them control the media via privately owned outlets.
  Remove laws barring racists from running to parliment 
  Pass laws allowing for discrimination based on "personal beliefs" 
  Pass laws allowing convicted felons to serve as ministers (basicly abolishing rule of law via majority tirany). In case you don't know - in a proparly functioning democracy NO ONE is above the law. 
  They're trying to change that - basically allowing any official with enough popular support to keep in power, opening the door for never ending corruption.
  In a proper democracy, the seperation of government, parliment and judiciary is suppose to  create a balanced system of checks and balances. (Google that please).
  In essense to avoid a concentration of power in a single place, each reach of government can hold only some power, and be limited in its effects by the others.
  In israel that means the Supreme court and government bodies (like police) are seperated from the parliment.
  The parliment can affect them (via ministers and commissions) but NOT control them.
  To break that balance, the current majority tries to take control of the police (a goverment body) by passing thr ben gvir law.
  In short that means giving a single person (the  terrorist sympatizer ben gvir)  the power to track, insturct surviliance, arrest and question his direct political opposition.
  This is nightmare fuel, and we already saw that happen briefly in small scale under Ohana during the covids anti-protests restrictions.
  The second method is to
  Lower the retirement age for Supreme judges (so that current, what they view as "leftist" / "opposition" judges will retire early, combined with a new law that 
  Will change who selects new judges - if up until now the judiciary system alone chose its judges, now they want the parliment alone to select the judges.
  Which again, totally breaks the balance.
  And offcourse the cherry on top,  the law that will allow the parliment to bypass the Supreme court.
  Which is basically saying:no more democracy,  only majority rule now.
  This last extremely controversial law will be kept to last.
  Every single one of these rules, is a threat to Israel as a democracy. Only Some of them together is an attack. The fact they're trying to push ALL of them is beyond crazy. >
  
  “Bibi is  clearly a Russian Asset”, say it as loud and often as possible. >
  
  This silly season is getting to the same level as F1s silly Season. >
  
  Israel was always extreme even their lefts. So go ahead be the worst you can >
  
  
  Israel was always extreme even their lefts. So go ahead be the worst you can
  
  What? >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 72%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  JERUSALEM - Over 1,000 senior Israeli air force veterans, including a former Israeli chief of staff, on Monday urged the country's top legal officials to stand tough against the incoming government.
  In a letter to the chief of Israel's Supreme Court and other top officials, they said the alliance of religious and ultranationalist parties threatens Israel's future.
  Among the nearly 1,200 signatories were Dan Halutz, who served as military chief from 2005-2007; Avihu Ben-Nun, a former commander of the air force and Amos Yadlin, a former head of military intelligence.
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Netanyahu^#1 former^#2 Israel^#3 force^#4 chief^#5 >
  
  Yup. Because this ultra far right govt will fuck shit up now. Two state ~~solution~~ discussion is dead and things will be bad for next few years, esp for Palestinians. >
  
  I tip my hat to the Israeli air force. Feel the same way you do about it, and that is not a fun feeling. >
  
  Funny how democracy suddently becomes "not fun" when it doesn't go your way. >
  
  I don’t know. Two far right parties promise to pass a law that will retroactively protect Netanyahu from his corruption case. 
  I’d say it the opposite of democratic. >
  
  
  Over 1,000 senior Israeli air force veterans, including a former Israeli chief of staff, on Monday urged the country’s top legal officials to stand tough against the incoming government.
  
  Netanyahu, someone who belongs in jail, is leading one of the most right-wing, terroristic governments Israel has ever seen. Opposing these violent, genocidal bigots is an intelligent and rational position.