Analysis: The moment reveals the gulf between the political theater around Israel in Washington and the deepening, dangerous reality on the ground.
, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday., a largely ceremonial figure who began his political career on the Israeli left. His address to Congress drew full-throated bipartisan cheers. Herzog hailed the “sacred” ties between Israel and the United States, anchored in shared “values” and “true friendship.” In remarks later in the day, Vice President Harris invoked the words U.S.
Yet even as Herzog spoke in Washington, the streets of Israel’s big cities teemed with anger and defiance over the controversial plans of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to overhaul the country’s judicial system. Those protests, which have raged for months, intensified Monday, after Israeli lawmakers in Netanyahu’s coalition
to pass the first plank of their reforms, stripping the Supreme Court of the power to strike down government action it considers “unreasonable.”The move, in the eyes of its supporters, returns greater authority to the country’s elected legislature. But analysts and critics, including the Israeli opposition and various Western governments, see it asto one of the few real checks that exists in Israeli democracy and a grim step toward a form of majoritarian autocracy.
The moment is so profound — and fraught — for the Israeli nation that Alterman cast it as “third juncture” in the country’s history, following the dramatic shift in borders after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and the state of Israel’s establishment in 1948. While Netanyahu’s extremist allies eye more radical maneuvers,
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