\u201cThe changes would politicize the process of picking judges and would encourage the selection of more extreme justices to the Supreme Court\u201d. He sa<\/p>\n
He explains that Politicians and their representatives will now control six seats on the nine-member committee, meaning that the selection of justices would likely become a matter of political horse-trading, he said.<\/p>\n
He argued that by engaging in so many divisive actions at once, Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s coalition was seeking to overwhelm an already war-weary and distracted Israeli public, in an attempt to dispel an effective response.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have managed to exploit the war \u2014 and the energy it has drained from the public \u2014 to create tectonic changes in Israeli democracy,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think we can say that Israel is no longer democratic. But if this goes through, it will be a far weaker democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
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