Israel Supreme Court Gives Netanyahu one Month, and that's it

We are finally in the home stretch of this Likud Central Committee elections debacle. Yesterday, March 25, the High Court granted Netanyahu his request to allow the Likud Central Committee to vote on retroactively changing the Likud constitution to postpone its own elections for another two years. This request was turned down by Judge Yehuda Zaft in the Tel Aviv District Court. But the Supreme Court overturned that ruling and granted him one month to organize the vote.

The change Netanyahu wants to make is from mandating elections one year after general elections, as it is now, to three years after general elections. This means that, by the current Likud Constitution, elections had to be held already two months ago, by February 10. And so, a good analogy to this vote, in the words of Michael Fuah, is, say the Knesset overran its term by two months. Then they got together and voted on a proposal to extend their term by another two years by retroactively changing the law that elections have to be held every four years, to six years. (Heck! Why not 20?)

However, this vote is even worse than that. Since Netanyahu wants the constitution changed to require elections three years after the last general elections, being that general elections in this country are generally never three years apart in the first place, this change practically makes internal Likud elections a thing of the past, obsolete.

In order to pass the change, Netanyahu needs a two thirds majority of Likud Central Committee members to vote yes. If he does not get two thirds, the following will happen:

1) Netanyahu will be embarrassed within his party, and his status in the party will be greatly damaged.
2) Elections will be held in late May, amid a wave of "kick him while he's down" anti-Netanyahu sentiment within the Likud.
3) The new Central Committee will be so stacked with Land of Israel Faithful that he will not be able to function within the party, and he will leave, and Likud will be left to the true nationalists.

The poetic beauty of it all is this: The High Court knows this, too. But if they do, why not just let it happen, from their perspective? If the Likud becomes "Extreme Right" as they term it, wouldn't that "scare voters away"? Then the Left would make a comeback, and the court would be all happy. So why is the Supreme Court trying to keep Likud under Netanyahu's control? Are they suddenly latent Likudniks?

No, they are not. WE are the Likudniks, and they know as well as we do that if elections are held now, the Likud will go to the real Likudniks, and Moshe Feiglin will take the party. And if that happens, the Supreme Court will soon be unable to continue appointing itself to the Supreme Bench. They will have to be...elected. By the Jewish people. For the Jewish people.

This, they really REALLY do not want.

The Supreme Court is not fighting for Benjamin Netanyahu. They are fighting for their own survival. The survival of their oligarchy, their regime, and their dictatorship. They just gave themselves a one month extension to their rule. But the clock is ticking, Dorit Beinisch. You are running out of time. We are coming, and we cannot be stopped.

One more question though. Why didn't the Supreme Court just say that Netanyahu could just postpone the elections no questions asked? Forget about this "vote to change the constitution" nonsense. Because, as Moshe Feiglin writes, "A petty criminal sins against the law. A big criminal sins using the law."

They can't just violate a constitution. They have to pretend to grant legal legitimacy to their injustice. Hence, they will allow a retroactive change in a law. And this is the essence of the court. They cannot rule going forward. The nation is not with them. They know their time is up, so they have to use a time machine. Rule retroactively. Going forward, they will fall. But like all true Leftists, they can only go backward, retroactively, in fear.

The funniest thing, though? When this Central Committee vote was originally supposed to happen, Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett, both Likud Central Committee members, were out of the country raising funds. That vote was canceled due to the Tel Aviv District Court.

But this time...

Guess who's in town to cast a ballot?

That's two more votes against you, Bibi.

Tick tock, Bagatz. Tick tock.