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Qantara.de
Another provision would allow the 120-seat Knesset to override Supreme Court decisions by a simple majority. By comparison, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down more than a hundred laws over the same period. Many of the proposals included in Netanyahu’s judicial reform plan were developed by former fellows at Kohelet Policy Forum, an ultra-neoliberal think tank financed primarily by right-wing Jewish billionaires from the United States. But the true model for Netanyahu’s judicial revolution is Viktor Orban’s Hungary. The choice is simple: Netanyahu’s personal interests, including in upending his corruption trial, or those of the public.
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