op-ed: Motives for revoking the powers of the Supreme Court

Netanyahu seeks to abolish the powers of the Israeli Supreme Court, to achieve two goals: the first is to serve himself with the aim of ending the case of the criminal charges on which he is being tried, and expunging them, as if they did not exist, and the second is in response to the demands of the government coalition parties: 1- the extreme right-wing, and 2- the religious and extremist Jews, and for this he seeks to cancel the powers of the Israeli Supreme Court. But what are the goals of the right-wing and religious parties, and their strict adherence to canceling the powers of the Supreme Court?.

The pursuit of politically and religiously extremist parties is due to two fundamental reasons:

First - Approving the recommendations of the Central Elections Commission, regarding the non-acceptance of the candidacy of the Palestinian Arab parties 1- The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality, 2- The Islamic Movement, 3- The National Democratic Assembly, 4- The Arab Movement for Change. Whereas the Central Elections Committee is traditionally composed of representatives of the participating parties in Parliament, that is, it is formed periodically every four years from all the parties that succeeded in the previous session, to decide on the nomination of the parties or their representatives in the subsequent session, and because it is composed of politically right-wing and Jewish religious parties, they mostly vote against the participation of Arab parties in Parliament, and object to their representatives, under the pretext of their support for terrorism, extremism, or hostility to "Israel".

The Arab parties resort to the Supreme Court after the Elections Commission has rejected their candidacy, and the court often takes a decision against the Elections Commission, and supports the recommendation of the nomination of the Palestinian Arab parties for membership in the Israeli parliament, and for this reason the extreme right-wing parties and the ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious parties seek to cancel the powers of the Supreme Court for this reason. The court stands objectively with the right of Arab parties and representatives to run for membership in the Israeli Knesset.

Second - The Israeli Supreme Court upholds the grievances of the Palestinians, the people of the West Bank and Jerusalem, whose private lands registered in their names are being seized and confiscated by settlers, so they turn to the court that upholds their grievances, and rejects the colonial settlers' collective seizure of the private lands of the Palestinians, and rejects their unilateral initiatives to seize Palestinian lands. , without prior government decisions, and therefore the Israeli court often takes decisions against colonial settler initiatives to seize Palestinian homes and lands without prior official government decisions.

For these and other reasons, the government coalition that resulted from the elections for the Knesset No. 25 on 1/11/2022 is working to change the powers of the Supreme Court, with the aim of achieving two main purposes:

The first: Preventing the candidacy and participation of Arab parties and their Palestinian deputies who are running for membership in Parliament, as these most likely constitute a preponderance and a title of support for the parties of the center and the left in Parliament in the face of the right-wing and religious parties who constitute the parliamentary voting majority, in the face of the centrist and left parties (according to Israeli values and concepts, figuratively). ), and thus the Arab representatives form a state of completion in providing and finding a balance between the two conflicting parties over the issues of Israeli society: 1- The centrist and leftist parties in confrontation, 2- The right-wing and religious parties.

The second: to prevent all legal procedures issued by the Israeli Supreme Court, which prevent colonial settlers from seizing private Palestinian lands and homes.

It is clear that this approach to abolish the powers of the Supreme Court aims to achieve two steps in one blow. The first is directed against the Palestinians of Areas 48, and the second is directed at the Palestinians of Areas 67.