The Knesset contains nothing but a collection of self-important, narcissistic, short-sighted, bloviating clowns.
Jerusalem, January 13 – Important officials from abroad no longer consider the legislature of the Jewish State a destination of any importance, conversations with various diplomats revealed this week, since that body’s role in legislation and oversight has been almost entirely supplanted by the judiciary.
Lawmakers, celebrities, and other influential personalities once made meetings at the Knesset, if not addressing the plenum itself, a key stop on trips aimed at demonstrating concern in the affairs affecting Israel and prevailing on politicians here to address issues of importance to their respective constituencies. However, recent years have seen an erosion in the standing of the parliament and a commensurate strengthening of the Supreme Court, as the latter has asserted a greater and greater role in reviewing, blocking, reinterpreting, editing, or otherwise usurping lawmaking power from the lawmaking body.
“They’re obviously just defending democracy from the elected officials,” explained one such dignitary. “You can’t have people voted into office doing things their voters voted them into office to do, without unelected judges there to make sure those laws don’t violate a nonexistent constitution.”
Israel has Basic Laws that ordain the roles and limitations of the various branches of government. In the last twenty or thirty years, the Court has asserted a role beyond the plain intent of those Basic Laws, which it justifies by appealing to “greater principles” or ideals not enshrined in any law – but held up as a beacon nevertheless as expressed in Israel’s 1948 Declaration of Independence.
Figures such as German Chancellors, the Egyptian president, distinguished scholars, and other high-ranking visitors have addressed the 120-member Knesset. But such events take place only rarely now, and not because of the current war: the dignitaries began visiting the Supreme Court more than the Knesset back in 2015, though the trend began more than ten years before that.
Experts note that the shift has not occurred entirely as a result of judiciary overreach; legislator shenanigans have many even among the voting public thinking that the Knesset contains nothing but a collection of self-important, narcissistic, short-sighted, bloviating clowns. Public opinion polls indicate that Israelis are about evenly split whether they prefer their laws to come from that group or from self-important, narcissistic, short-sighted, bloviating clowns in black robes and a heavy dose of elitism instead.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has pursued legislation to reform the judicial system and cut it down to size, which the Court has declared invalid.
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