Hyena_Of_Ice posted...
Aaand Netanyahu just destroyed one of the major pillars of Israel's democratic system in order to dodge the Attorney General's demand that he draft the Ultra-Orthodox/Haredim (doing so will result in the ultra-orthodox parties dissolving the coalition, you see, forcing a new election. Being prime minister-- and the war-- are the only two things keeping Netanyahu out of prison.)
In the end, Netanyahu got his desired coalition "reform" in the middle of a fucking war. And with that, the only supposed democracy in the Middleast dies. Pitiful. (To add extra sting, I'd like to point out that the original ruling that demanded conscripting the Haredim was in 2017, where the AG found it discriminatory to exempt the Haredim from the draft)
And yet, conservatives in the west will continue to pretend that "Israel is the only democracy in the middle east"
It's so frustrating