As an American, this sounds familiar.
without the USA backing bennys illegitmate government, he and his cabinet would be in jail right now.
“The only democracy in the Middle-East”
No, no it isn’t. It hasn’t been even a flawed democracy for at least a decade, let alone ever for the people of Palestine.
Its a fascist shithole who’s leadership figured out can stay in power forever if they start a new war.
By all means, a mischievous terrorist state
Fascists gonna fash.
The zionists are even traitors to themselves. Why abide by the rules of your supreme court if you shit on all the rules every day?
Because “secretly” they shit on the concept of democracy, laws and courts. They want a military theocracy.
Just like Iran. Just like the US.
Israel doesn’t have a constitution.
It doesn’t have a “document constitution” it has a political constitution that is based upon precedence. That precedence being set by the high court.
So when the High Court decided that self determination in Israel is reserved only for the Jewish population, thereby enshrining the right to settler colonialism and they’ve enshrined apartheid into their Political Constitution.
There are other ways to talk about this. We don’t have to torture these words into pretending to be something they are not.
High court precedents are not the the same thing as a constitution because they are not above all branches of government. They are of one branch.
You’re applying a USA understanding of government to a completely different government structure because you want there to be an actual document called “The Constitution”.
But that’s not the case here. Either way, we can also take your point further, because a “Constitutional Crisis” can also apply to different branches of government getting into institutional conflict with each other. Since, as we know, legalese likes to use Latin etymology.
The word “constitution” comes from Latin “constitutio,” meaning a regulation or order, via Old French “constitucion,” and originally referred to laws or customs established by authority. It entered English in the 14th century with meanings including laws, physical makeup, and the structure of a state.
Either way, it’s still a Constitutional Crisis and very valid terminology to use.
You’re doing the “torture” here. A constitution is a set of rules or precedents which establish the legal basis for a state. It can be a set of rules in a document like the French constitution, or it can be the sum total of legal precedent and convention like the British constitution. Historically, most constitutions have been the latter.
So they’re actually only a little better than a religious theocracy like Iran. Different processes and paths but similar results.
That’s a very layered statement to respond to and depends on personal weighted values that I can’t adequately answer.
Not in the defense of Iran’s theocracy because there’s no defending it and they openly say that they’re a theocracy, but more about perspective:
Israel claims to be secular and equal, yet -
- marriages can only go through religious council (to maintain apartheid and “blood purity” as literally described by their politicians).
- requests to open schools, civil societies, non-profits, etc. by anyone who isn’t Jewish Israeli are rejected (so effectively there’s reliance on Israeli Jewish institutions for many things from jobs to education to civil support)
- if you’re in an Arab neighborhood or town it is heavily under-served and the police purposefully turn a blind eye towards criminal activity (sometimes catch and release when they discover what neighborhoods the criminal is active in)
- religious minorities experience violence and hate (both subtle and obvious) and have little to no recourse for justice.
- their expansionism and colonialism is heavily fueled by religious zealots - so the supposedly secular state is enacting genocide for religious zealots but also claims to be secular.
So it’s hard to determine if it’s a little bit better. Some might argue it’s worse.
Nonetheless, it’s essentially a theocracy. Iran vs Israel is allegorically like Abel and Cain, sharing the same root source but with enough differences to want to kill each other.
