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Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Isa 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Isa 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified
Hab 1:6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
Hab 1:7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves
Luk 19:12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Luk 19:13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them
In March 1992, the Knesset passed two hugely important Basic Laws: Human Dignity and Liberty, and Freedom of Occupation. Both laws passed easily, without controversy or debate, and with little fanfare, in a late-night Knesset session with fewer than half its members present. To those present (and not present), these laws were important, but entirely routine and uncontroversial.
Israel’s lawmakers had no sense that they had created laws that would grant unelected Supreme Court judges power to overturn legislation. They failed to grasp that they were in fact diminishing the Knesset’s law-making ability and empowering Israel’s Supreme Court.
They had no idea that these two Basic Laws would return to repeatedly haunt the Knesset—and the nation.
When passing the laws, Knesset members explicitly stated that they were not intended to invest more power in the Supreme Court. “We are not shifting weight onto the Supreme Court,” stated Member of the Knesset Uriel Lynn. “We have not established a constitutional court … with special power to annul laws. … This power has not been given to the court system. The power remains in this house.”
But that wasn’t how Israel’s top judges interpreted these new laws. In May 1992, a member of the Supreme Court, Honorable Justice Aharon Barak, delivered a speech hailing what he viewed as a constitutional transformation. “Not everyone knows this, but recently a revolution has occurred in Israel. I am speaking of a constitutional revolution, in which the Knesset, as the constitutive branch, enacted Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, and Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation” (emphasis added throughout).
Barak made clear that he considered Israel’s Supreme Court, comprised of 15 unelected judges, more powerful than the Knesset. “With the enactment of the Basic Laws, these fundamental rights have become ‘inscribed in the book.’ From now on, they bind not only the citizens and residents, and not only the administrative authorities, such as the government and local authorities. From now on, they bind the Knesset itself.”
https://watchjerusalem.co.il/952-israels-rogue-supreme-court
Jer 10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
Jer 51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.
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