This Little Light of Mine...
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| Protests rage on in Jerusalem over plans to limit the Judiciary's power. |
Imma gonna let it shine; let it shine, let it shine, all the time...."
Life is Eternal, never forget. Life Conquers Hate and all the guns and weapons in the world will never kill all the life and goodness that lives on, no matter what comes.
Believe, even when the world turns to Religious Extremism over faith in justice.
Even the people who gave us the Mosaic code can stumble before collectively finding their feet.
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ADDED: You will know it's bad, if the Jewish people in Israel take the lives of their own in putting down the protests that thus far have not resulted in property damage or lives lost.
As protesters continue to pour into the streets throughout Israel, condemning a bill passed on Monday by the right-wing government to blunt the power of the country’s judiciary, the Israeli Supreme Court faces a momentous decision: How should it respond to a challenge to its own power?
The new law limits the rationale the court can use to strike down decisions by the government. Yet as soon as it passed, petitions asked the justices to do just that, by voiding the law itself. Analysts said the court has essentially three choices: 1) strike down the law; 2) narrowly interpret it to curb its impact; or 3) simply not decide by refusing to hear any of the petitions.
The bill was passed by the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, as part of a broad plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to overhaul the judiciary by taking control of how judges are selected and eliminating the power of the courts to review certain cases.
Essentially, it's right-wing religious extremist settlers who want their weapons to be the most powerful, over any Judiciary review that find non-Jewish Israeli citizens have rights as well as property-owning displaced residents.
If you don't recognize their grievances and take up the cases that constrict the rights of the religious extremists (backed by American evangelicals and the neo-con warhawks who remain in hiding in America but always waiting to seize back power from the Democrats), then Force will continue to march over Reason.
Let's see if the wise Israelis are strong enough to do the dirty work needed to send Netanyahu packing, like America did with TeamCheney. (bush who?) ;-)
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