To the editor: I’m so impressed by the sustained and outraged demonstrations exhibited by Israel’s inhabitants in response to the undemocratic choice by its Knesset to override the judiciary. One can solely hope that, ought to Trump resume workplace and proceed to intestine our Justice Division, Individuals exhibit the identical degree of indignation.
Barbara L. Siry, Laguna Woods
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To the editor: Israelis are protesting laws that they are saying will intestine the facility of their judiciary and restrict their Supreme Court docket from overturning authorities selections, thereby weakening their democracy. In distinction, within the U.S. we’ve a Supreme Court docket that ignores precedent, weakens the rights of Individuals and already is a menace to our democracy.
The U.S. provides billions of {dollars} to Israel to guard their democracy. Paradoxically, right here at residence, our democracy is barely hanging on by a thread.
Donna Sloan, Los Angeles
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To the editor: David N. Myers is correct to be involved that Netanyahu’s authorities threatens the way forward for Israel’s democracy, however he skews the thrust of Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948 when he means that its dedication to “equal rights for all residents” is a mere appendage to “the story of the Jewish folks’s triumphant return to their homeland.” The pursuit of justice is on the coronary heart of Judaism and Zionism.
To separate Jewish nationwide aspirations from the complete implementation of democratic rights for all of Israel’s residents, no matter their faith, race or ethnicity, is much like arguing that the French and American revolutions suffered from combining nationwide and democratic aspirations of their struggles for freedom. Trendy democracies require nationwide integrity, within the fullest sense of the phrase, to carry their various communities collectively.
Peter A. Brier, Altadena
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To the editor: Myers writes about Israel’s erosion and eventual departure from democracy. Netanyahu’s try and dilute the facility of the judiciary has resulted in mass protests, refusal of reserve troopers to report for responsibility, peril for the financial system and common division among the many folks. His legal expenses and racist allies have tarnished the state of Israel.
Paradoxically, these protests ought to have began throughout Netanyahu’s phrases in workplace. His brutal remedy of the Palestinians and conduct of the occupation on Palestinian land has been that of a dictator and never a primary minister of a democracy. Importantly, he has ignored President Biden’s request to not change democracy-protecting legal guidelines. That is the president of a rustic that offers billions a yr to Israel and helps Israel within the United Nations. Netanyahu should go, not just for the folks of Israel however for peace within the area.
George Mouro, Rancho Mirage
