Israel’s Unrest Could End Up Making Its Democracy Stronger
COMPROMISE IS THE ANSWER
PM Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled he’s willing to back off on some of his hard-right coalition’s extreme proposals for judicial reform—which might be the way out of this crisis.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Reuters
To watch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of late has been to watch a game of escalating recklessness played out on a national scale. Desperate to extricate himself from his corruption trial, he has formed an unprecedentedly hardline coalition, which on one hand has given power to bigots
