CHAOS IN ISRAEL: Hillel Halkin describes the current situation in Israel:

Although the military occupation continues, as do the serious domestic frictions and discontents, Israel has become a country in which democratic norms and procedures have, as it were, run wild. With its welter of competing institutions clamoring for primacy, the country has never been less subject to strong, centralized rule in its history. Public life has become a free-for-all in which various bodies—the prime minister, the ministries, local government, the Knesset, the courts, the army, the police, the trade unions, official investigators and commissions of inquiry—all attack and seek to defend themselves from each other as if each were a warring principality rather than part of the same unified state.

And he pinpoints the problem.

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