Communications Minister Shlomo Karai responded this evening (Saturday) to a recorded speech by former Supreme Court President Prof. Aharon Barak, in which he claimed that Israel is no longer a democratic state and that its citizens are controlled by one person.
""That's right - Yitzhak Amit," wrote Kari. "And also true - the only factor that can stop the deterioration of our democracy into a legal dictatorship is the people in the upcoming elections in Gaza, but in the meantime, the entire government as one person must tell the High Court of Justice no!
""This is more important than any law we try to pass that will be subject to the whims of the dictator, his arms, and his followers. Stop the legal dictatorship and return to a Jewish and democratic one. Now!".
During the "Patriots" program, panelist Itamar Fleishman addressed the speech.
Fleischman explained that, unlike dictators who call on the people to defend their rule after its fall, Barak is trying to present himself as someone leading a revolution – without ever being elected by the public. "He is definitely a dictator," he said, "but one who asks the people to come out and defend eleven people who no one elected, who are trying to run everyone’s lives.".
Fleischman explained that popular revolutions usually occur against unelected centers of power, but in this case it is an attempt at the opposite - mobilizing the public in favor of a disconnected legal elite.
""He has no people. No one is with him," said Fleishman, adding that the entire event was constructed as a planned show designed to provoke a public chain reaction.
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