Editorial, Haaretz
Image from article, with caption: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting, May 8, 2016
The survival of democracy depends on a system of checks and balances constantly undermined by the current prime minister.
Excerpt:
It seems Netanyahu believes that state institutions exist in order to serve two purposes: extending his tenure; and strengthening Israel’s public diplomacy overseas – ostensibly to guard against the BDS movement and anti-Semites and, in effect, to silence criticism about the continuation of the occupation and undermine Israeli democracy. ...