This brings us to yet another abnormality particular to the Israeli legal system. How is that of all the petitioners demanding judicial intervention aimed at preventing the dismissal, the aggrieved party himself is not included amongst them?!
Rather, a cohort of opposition parties and left-wing “public petitioners,” oftentimes funded by foreign governments and other anti-Israel agents, have taken it upon themselves to object to Netanyahu’s application of the law. Indeed, as a result of this ludicrous state of affairs, Ronen Bar is listed as one of the respondents to the proceedings, indicating, as it were, that the litigation is actually against him!
These and a series of increasingly preposterous circumstances amply exemplify just how disfigured the Israeli legal system has become, along with a complete renunciation of fundamental democratic principles. Separation of powers, judicial restraint, the time-honored requirement of “standing,” and the proper function of the attorney general, inter alia, are almost nowhere to be found when it comes to Israel’s Supreme Court.
We proudly declare ourselves as the only true democracy in the Middle East, but of course, everything is relative. Granted, compared to our immediate neighbors, Israel has all the trappings of a functional democracy.
Yet it doesn’t take more than a few hours’ flight to find an abundance of countries whose legal systems wouldn’t dare allow the avaricious excesses the Israeli public, or more specifically—its right-wing contingent—is subject to at the hands of the judicial wing and its “deep state” accomplices.
