Journalist Anshel Pfeffer says the Israeli prime minister has a 'strange detachment' when it comes to social issues — which opens the door for conservative members of his coalition to make changes.
with NPR on Dec. 15, Netanyahu said he would control the far-right members of his coalition and that he'd be making the key decisions, saying,"They are joining me. I'm not joining them." But Pfeffer says that Netanyahu's disinterest in social policy opens the door for the ultra-Orthodox and ultra-right fundamentalists in the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
"This could impact millions of people around the world who consider themselves [to be] Jewish," Pfeffer notes."The Jewish state would no longer consider them [to be] Jewish and therefore no longer eligible to be Israeli citizens." "What Netanyahu's new government is doing is basically eroding those strong elements of Israeli democracy, the issues of separation of powers, the fact that the courts could intervene and say what the government is doing is illegal and therefore the government has to stop," Pfeffer says."All these things are weakening those elements of Israeli democracy, which were and have been traditionally very strong, and that is certainly a threat to Israeli democracy.
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