The left’s total war against the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform plan seems to know no bounds, and appears impenetrable to information or substantive discussion.
Indeed, with each passing day, as the left outdoes itself in violence and extremism, it appears that what we are seeing is more psychologically than policy based. In this sense, the left’s revolt has more in common with the anti-Trump mobs in the United States than with any previous Israeli protest movement.
To understand what stands behind the protests from both a social and programmatic perspective, I was joined on the Caroline Glick Show this week by Dr. Yoram Hazony, author of “Conservatism: A Rediscovery,” president of the Herzl Institute and founder of the NatCon movement. Yoram and I discuss the development and transformation of the left in Israel over the decades and its ties with progressives in the U.S. and Europe.
In my opening remarks, I discuss Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s decision last week to cast true compromise to the four winds and put forward a “compromise” that aligns perfectly with the views of the legal fraternity led by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut.
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