John Chuckman
EXPANSION OF COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA TODAY
“Nothing to see here! Israeli ministers approve ‘unconstitutional’ bill to ban filming of IDF actions”
Israel has no Bill or Charter of Rights, so something like this cannot be ‘unconstitutional,’ even in quotes.
Given Israel's structure and founding principles, there never can be a Bill of Rights. It would be like Nationalist South Africa or the American Confederacy having a Bill of Rights. The concept makes no sense.
Of course, the whole idea of defined and protected rights is so that a tyrannical-minded democratic majority does not permanently suppress a minority.
Democracies can be tyrannical just as much as dictatorships, and Israel proves that every single day.
