![]() ![]() visual novels, which are targeted more toward high-school age boys as far as I can tell). ![]() I’m a lesbian, so I’m definitely not the target audience for this game, but I always try to be objective and open-minded when playing any game I’m not the target audience for (other examples I’ve reviewed in the past are Moments, which was also primarily targeted toward women who are attracted to men, Immortal Taoists, which involved a genre I had never heard of before and really had no interest in, Time Princess, which also wasn’t my favorite genre but was still a great game, and various Genius Inc.Mr Netanyahu and his allies say the plan will restore a balance between the judicial and executive branches and rein in what they see as an interventionist court with liberal sympathies.Ĭritics say the plan upends Israel’s fragile system of checks and balances and pushes Israel down a path towards autocracy.A few notes before I get into the full review: The overhaul will give the government control over who becomes a judge and limit judicial review over government decisions and legislation. He denies wrongdoing and dismisses critics who say he will try to seek an escape route from the charges through the legal overhaul. Mr Netanyahu is on trial for charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate affairs involving wealthy associates and powerful media moguls.Ī protest in Tel Aviv against plans by Mr Netanyahu’s government to overhaul the judicial system (Oded Balilty/AP) It is also unclear how the court, which is at the centre of the divide surrounding the overhaul, will treat the request to sanction Mr Netanyahu. He added that the uncertainty of the events made him unsure of how they were likely to unfold. If Mr Netanyahu continues to intervene in the overhaul as he promised, Ms Baharav-Miara could launch an investigation into whether he violated the conflict of interest agreement, which could lead to additional charges against him, Mr Lurie said. “We are at the start of a constitutional crisis in the sense that there is a disagreement over the source of authority and legitimacy of different governing bodies,” he said. The fast-paced legal and political developments have catapulted Israel into uncharted territory and a quickly developing constitutional crisis, Guy Lurie, a research fellow at the Jerusalem think tank Israel Democracy Institute, said. ![]() ![]() Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing heavy criticism (Stefan Rousseau/PA) This declaration prompted the attorney general, Gali Baharav-Miara, to warn that Mr Netanyahu was breaking his conflict of interest agreement by entering the fray. Instead, justice minister Yariv Levin, a close confidant of Mr Netanyahu, is spearheading the overhaul.īut on Thursday, after parliament passed a law making it harder to remove a sitting prime minister, Mr Netanyahu said he was unshackled by the attorney general’s decision and vowed to wade into the crisis and “mend the rift” in the nation. Mr Netanyahu is barred by the country’s attorney general from dealing with his government’s plan to overhaul the judiciary, based on a conflict of interest agreement he is bound to, and which the supreme court acknowledged in a ruling over Mr Netanyahu’s fitness to serve while on trial for corruption. The prime minister responded saying the appeal should be dismissed and said that the supreme court did not have grounds to intervene. “The prime minister will be forced to bow his head before the law and comply with the provisions of the law.” We are at the start of a constitutional crisis in the sense that there is a disagreement over the source of authority and legitimacy of different governing bodies His language echoed that used by Mr Netanyahu and his allies against protesting opponents of the overhaul. “A prime minister who doesn’t obey the court and the provisions of the law is privileged and an anarchist,” Eliad Shraga, the head of the group, said. The Movement for Quality Government in Israel, which opposes the overhaul, asked the court to force Mr Netanyahu to obey the law and sanction him either with a fine or prison time for not doing so, saying he was not above the law. But it was unclear whether others would follow him. Mr Gallant cited the turmoil in the ranks of the military over the plan. Mr Netanyahu’s government is pushing ahead for a parliamentary vote this week on a centrepiece of the overhaul - a law that would give the governing coalition the final say over all judicial appointments.ĭefence minister Yoav Gallant, a senior member of Mr Netanyahu’s Likud party, became the first to break ranks late on Saturday by calling for the legislation to be frozen. The prime minister will be forced to bow his head before the law and comply with the provisions of the law ![]()
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