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The Erick Erickson Show

S12 EP122: Hour 2 - The Fight to Make Israel More Democratic

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

There is a lot of news coming out of Israel so let’s put some context on it plus the GOP is in some trouble heading into 2024 but it’s not to late to course correct.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Two.

0:12.7

Greetings, conversationalists.

0:14.2

Welcome.

0:14.7

It is Eric Erickson here across America.

0:17.1

The phone number, should you wish to call, 87797-973-725.

0:25.6

We have, well, fretful anxiety across the news media over what's happening in Israel, which is sad.

0:35.6

David Harseni at the Federalist actually has a real breakdown.

0:41.5

And it's stuff that I've known and heard about.

0:43.9

I haven't spit a lot of time on it because they dropped the legislation of the past,

0:48.1

but they brought it back up.

0:49.0

And the national media in this country is obsessed with it.

0:52.3

The left is really angry.

0:53.7

I want to explain this situation to you.

0:56.0

You can be smarter than your friends when it comes to this topic.

1:00.0

So, Bibin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel,

1:03.0

and the Knesset, which is the Israeli parliament, has now passed legislation

1:09.0

that will curtail the Israeli Supreme Court's ability to stop

1:15.6

blocking legislation and appointments in Israel.

1:18.6

And you should know, and this is the contentious issue here,

1:37.7

the Supreme Court of Israel has made a power grab. Now, we need to back up a little bit.

1:46.5

In the United States of America, we have the oldest still used constitution on the planet.

1:54.0

There are countries that are older than ours, but they don't have constitutional structures. The United Kingdom, for example, doesn't have a constitution.

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