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(IsraelNN.com) Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann stood behind his earlier statements, in which he said that Israel was in a better position defending itself before international bodies than in the Supreme Court.

"What I said was true," he told Yediot Acharonot. "One can even compare the High Court to the Security Council, the only UN body that has operative authority. The High Court issues decrees. It commands the government what to do and not to do."

"The Security Council does not give us commands," he said. "The High Court gives commands every day. One day it outlaws the "neighbor procedure," another day it decides what the [security] fence's route will be. Do this, do that."