Haaretz Demands Israel be Protected from Democracy
Haaretz is the main Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew. It is also a decidedly anti-democratic newspaper. It is about as pluralistic as Pravda was back in the days of Brezhnev. Its post-Zionist political bias infects every page in the paper, from the news to the Op-Eds to the letters to the editor to the book reviews to the entertainment reviews. For every 100 or so far-Left opinion pieces (which are often disguised as news items) it achieves balance by running one non-left piece, often by Moshe Arens.

And Haaretz has been one of the main promoters of judicial activism, meaning judicial tyranny, in Israel. Haaretz and others with similar anti-Israel views approve of judicial activism because how else can the Left impose its will on the country? After all, if the Israeli public has any say in the matter, it will oppose just about everything the Far Left wants. So since the Left cannot count on popular support in anything, the best way to achieve hegemony is to get friendly unelected leftist justices to veto and trump the parliament and simply make up what the justices want the laws to say and impose these imaginary laws on a resistant legislature and public. These are judges, by the way, whom the electorate cannot dismiss nor impeach! That, you see, is the highest form of democracy. Democracy is just too important to be left to the voters and their elected representatives!

Haaretz columnists have been having noisy conniptions ever since Olmert appointed as the new Minister of Justice a brilliant anti-activist academic, Prof. Daniel Friedmann. (See this). Almost every day 3 or 4 Haaretz columnists attack Friedmann and his agenda of reining in the judicial tyrants. Friedmann wants to impose a Canada-style set of rules on the Supreme Court, under which any time the Supreme Court revokes a law passed by the Knesset, the Knesset can overturn the Court veto via a simple 61 vote (out of 120 Knesset votes) and then the law sticks.

Gevalt, scream the Haaretz legal columnists! How can we EVER impose our will on the unenlightened masses THAT way!   THINGS like THIS MUST be Stopped!

But the height of Haaretz enlightenment came this past Friday March 2. And this is NOT a Purim joke. The editorial for the day, representing the publisher and editor of the Palestinian paper printed in Hebrew, is entitled "Who will Protect us from the Knesset?" Yes, civics students, Haaretz demands that "we" be protected from democracy, by having a system in which unelected judges defend us from the legislative powers of the elected parliament. Think I am joshing you? – Take a look here.

My guess is that Haaretz will be soon calling for a public burning of the Magna Carta, the US Constitution, and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man. After all, these can all serve as precedents for allowing elected representatives of the people to make laws and THAT must never be allowed in Israel.