What Next - Has Netanyahu Lost Control?
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🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week, Israel’s far-right coalition government voted to strip the Supreme Court of the power to overturn “unreasonable” government actions and appointments. Protesters and experts alike worry it's the first step in a broader push towards gutting the judiciary altogether. Is Israel on the brink of authoritarianism?
Guest: Yair Rosenberg, staff writer at The Atlantic, author of its “Deep Shtetl” newsletter
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| 0:42.4 | To understand what's happening in Israel this week, |
| 0:45.0 | you could start by watching all the protest videos. |
| 0:49.0 | You can see a sea of Israeli flags filling the streets. |
| 0:51.0 | Here drums and cashews. |
| 0:53.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:55.0 | If my future is lost, I should make it future is lost. |
| 0:58.0 | I feel like I don't have any hope, any optimistic in my body at the moment. |
| 1:05.0 | Tens of thousands of people have been turning out to express their outrage. |
| 1:10.0 | At the government's time, |
| 1:12.0 | the government's decision to quote unquote reform the country's Supreme Court. |
| 1:17.0 | The videos that interest Yair Rosenberg, though, |
| 1:20.0 | they haven't come from the protesters. |
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