On the saviors – Melman in Haaretz:

‘This bill, perhaps even more than the reasonableness standard repeal, is enraging the Israeli public, which is committed to the notion of a "people's army" – including among the right. But even if the court’s rulings on these issues are clear-cut, it will be time until their impact is felt on the ground.
Consider two possible scenarios that could trigger a constitutional crisis. One begins with the Supreme Court (sitting in its capacity as the High Court of Justice) ruling that the political appointment of some minister’s crony is unreasonable and the minister ignoring the ruling. The second starts with the justice minister refusing to heed a court ruling to convene the Judicial Appointments Committee.
There’s no question that either scenario or the passage of the draft-dodging law would add massive momentum to the protest movement and prompt hundreds of thousands to take to the streets once again. But it’s not certain that the security chiefs would resign even then. They would likely only do so at the last moment, when they see there’s nothing else left they can do.
It will finally come to that should the government’s decisions – and their implementation – be illegal. Such a decision could be something like an order to go to war motivated entirely by personal interests and politics or actions that would deal a critical blow to the security organizations’ ability to operate. For now, at least, some kind of replay of “the generals’ revolt” from 56 years ago is not about to happen.’

Read the article here.

The army and the security establishment are not going to save the remainders of liberal democracy. You hoped so? So did I.

It’s unfortunate, but it has been clear for quite some time the electorate cannot be trusted with democracy. That’s the great and beautiful paradox of this system.

In the meantime, the suspense of how this is going to end is a valid argument for staying alive.