Is Israeli society collapsing, or just growing up?

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Ark Media

Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

One week ago, Israel’s parliament passed the first pillar of its judicial reform package. This, despite 30 weeks of massive protests against the reforms. Calling these mass protests understates it. Hundreds of thousands of people turning out each week, culminating last week in a historic protest march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. We have received a lot of questions and comments from listeners to this podcast about the current situation in Israel. Haviv Rettig Gur joins us for the first time, to help us make sense of events. Haviv is the political analyst at The Times of Israel. He was a long time reporter for the Times of Israel. He’s also working on a book. Haviv was also a combat medic in the IDF where he served in the reserves until he was 40 years old. Haviv Rettig Gur on Twitter: twitter.com/havivrettiggur?s=20

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0:00.0	I think what just happened was good. I think what just happened was healthy.
0:04.7	This country has carried a lot of questions on answered. There are many other questions
0:08.8	on answered that we continue to carry, the big one being obviously the Palestinian question, but there are a lot of domestic
0:15.2	internal questions that we have been carrying and they have been tearing us apart quietly from the
0:19.6	inside and a couple of them because of the foolishness of some ideologues was forced onto the public agenda and is exploding in our faces and I don't think that's a bad thing.
0:29.0	This is not Israel collapsing. This is Israel growing up. I think we're going into a good
0:35.6	period of reckoning. It will be painful. It'll get worse before it gets better.
0:39.6	We have a leadership that is foolish and unserious and not up to this task unless it makes the decision
0:46.1	to face this moment with what it needs as a constitutional moment of thinking and communicating
0:52.1	and dealing seriously with our problems.
0:54.0	And if that does happen, everything will turn out great.
0:57.3	If that doesn't happen, it'll turn out great.
0:59.1	It'll just take a little longer.
1:12.0	One week ago today, Israel's Parliament passed the first pillar of its package of
1:17.5	reforms of Israel's judiciary. Maybe the only pillar they passed relative to how they started but nonetheless they did
1:26.4	pass something and this is despite 30 weeks of massive protests against these reforms
1:32.2	now to call these just mass protests
1:34.3	actually understates it.
1:36.2	We're talking about hundreds of thousands of Israelis
1:39.9	turning out every Saturday night after Shabbat since January for approximately 30 weeks
1:46.3	to protest the government's judicial reform package.
1:49.9	And this all culminated last week in an historic protest march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
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