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For the glory of Netanyahu: Israel will become an illiberal democracy - opinion
Israel will become a kleptocracy, in which the never-ending array of public figures convicted, or under investigation, for corruption and malfeasance, become the norm.
THE NETANYAHU government’s judicial ‘reforms’ have no connection to the need for some perhaps warranted tweaks to a remarkable legal system, says the writer.
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CHUCK FREILICH
JANUARY 18, 2023 03:34
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