They really are trying for the anti-Trump playbook again. But now Bibi has the benefit of not only his own previous experience, but watching what happened to his dear friend, President Trump.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday shrugged off an 80,000-strong rally the night before against the government’s contentious plans to remake the judiciary, telling cabinet ministers that the national elections were a bigger display of the public’s will.Changes in the pipeline include weakening the Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...so that it will not be able to veto legislation and policies deemed unconstitutional, and granting the government control over the panel that selects judges.
Critics say that along with other planned legislation, the overhaul will impact Israel’s democratic character by upsetting its system of checks and balances, granting too much power to the executive branch, and leaving minorities undefended.
"Two months ago there was a huge demonstration, the mother of all demonstrations. Millions of people went into the streets in order to vote in the elections. One of the main topics that they voted on was reforming the judicial system," Netanyahu said of the November 1 vote, according to a statement from his office.
"Everyone who was at our election rallies, in city centers, and in neighborhoods, heard the voices rising from the crowds," he said at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, though he did not give a specific example.
"Millions of people went into the streets in order to vote in the elections. One of the main topics that they voted on was reforming the judicial system," Netanyahu told ministers.
Netanyahu urged against being "swept away by inflammatory slogans about civil war and the destruction of the state."
He added, "I must say that when we were in the opposition, we did not call for civil war and did not speak about the destruction of the state, even when the government made decisions that we vociferously opposed. I expect the leaders of the opposition to do the same."