(American Spectator) Josh Hammer - There is simply no other country on Earth that attracts such disproportionate, and often vehement, disparagement from its would-be moral superiors as Israel. The current hullabaloo takes the form of the roiling debate over the new Israeli government's proposed judicial reform package. Newspaper editorial boards from Washington, D.C., to Brussels have condemned the reforms in no uncertain terms. There is no substantive basis whatsoever for these performative shrieks of hysteria. The government's reform package is just and proper, as a matter of both political theory and comparative constitutional law. It would primarily make it easier for the Knesset to override Supreme Court rulings by a certain threshold, and amend the current practice wherein justices essentially choose their very own successors. The first reform reflects the British model of governance, while the second would bring Israel in line with the American model. This is all incredibly standard, straightforward and noncontroversial. The result, if the reforms are passed, would be a more democratic State of Israel. The writer is opinion editor of Newsweek and a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation.
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