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Israel's Democracy Crisis Continues Despite Netanyahu Temporary Halt to Plans to Gut Judiciary

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On this special edition of DSR, former diplomat and advisor to Israeli leaders Alon Pinkas provides an insight from Israel into that country's current democracy crisis. He provides insights into the state of affairs at the moment and why the crisis that has brought hundreds of thousands of Israelis into the streets is far from over. He also discusses why this unprecedented Israeli drama is so directly relevant to the United States. Join Pinkas and host David Rothkopf for this in-depth and timely conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to a special edition of the podcast. I'm your host David Rothkopf

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coming to you from Washington, D.C. We're joined today by our friend, former senior

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Israel diplomat and government advisor, Alon Pincas, who is in Israel. And the reason we

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are holding this special podcast is, of course, that over the weekend there were massive

1:54.3

demonstrations in Israel, perhaps as many as 600,000 people focused on a series of events

2:04.6

that could only really be described as a constitutional crisis at this point that included the resignation

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or firing of the Defense Minister associated with his resistance to the Net Nyahu judicial

2:24.7

reforms and have continued through to today with not just demonstrations, strikes shutting

2:31.9

down of the airport, but also apparently decision by Net Nyahu and his right-wing coalition

2:40.0

to postpone the judicial reforms until allegedly the summer, which does not mean democracy

2:51.4

has been saved in Israel, although it seems to have been given a reprieve. And so the place

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