Dr. Haim Assa
We are all worried. We all believe that the 15 Supreme Court justices will overturn the repeal of the reasonableness law. We are all sure that Israel is heading for a constitutional crisis.
This is what the right is trying to convince us: there will indeed be a constitutional crisis. Therefore, because there will be a constitutional crisis, the President of the Supreme Court, Justice Esther Hayut, “will have a deal” with the Minister of Information of this government, Galit Distal Atbaryan. Sara threatens Supreme Court judges. This is not just talk. She knows there will be no constitutional crisis if the Supreme Court throws this law out.
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There will be no constitutional crisis because the Prime Minister of Israel knows that a constitutional crisis would bring the end of this government, its political end, closer. He knows that the protest will increase four or five times, and in the face of that, he will not be able to stand. Therefore, he will simply agree to the ruling of the Supreme Court if Hayut and the rest of the Supreme Court justices rule on the violation of the law.
He will announce that he is a man of the law, that he has always been a man of the law, that the law has always been a candle to his feet (and the soles of his shoes), and therefore he respects the court’s ruling. There is no constitutional crisis.
However,
Our righteous Prime Minister will declare that the current wording of the law, which has not yet been passed, must be amended. So get to work: amend the wording of the law to repeal the reasonableness law. Submit the new wording (which is probably already ready) to the Knesset, get approval from all 64 rags, and then the person who will file a petition with the High Court will submit it, and they will hold another hearing with 15 judges.
But Hayut will no longer be there. And maybe the righteous Donald Trump will be president of the USA. Maybe. If not, then maybe another round, when everyone on both sides is already lying passed out from exhaustion, both Levin’s opponent and the protest.
If his mind is correct, the declaration of agreement with the Supreme Court’s Geniza ruling is obligatory and necessary. This way, he also silences Levin. He silences him by saying they are law-abiding and going out together to correct the wording for another round. This way, he may also be fatally injured in the protest; that way, he comes off as righteous. Three kills in one shot.
Therefore, enough with the speeches about a constitutional crisis. There will be no such crisis. The Supreme Court must strike down this law.
All of the threatening government ministers know this. Therefore, dear judges, throw this crazy rant off the table. Everyone will thank you for it. The Prime Minister will thank you. So will we, the general public. The protesters, too. Even the ultra-Orthodox.
Who doesn’t? The ones that don’t interest us anymore.
The author, Haim Assa, was the campaign strategist of Yitzhak Rabin (1992) and Tzipi Livni (2009). He served as a national security advisor in the Rabin government. Chairman of Seiken and head of the laboratory for strategic war games at Tel Aviv University
