Excellent discussion by @MattiFriedman on what is truly going on behind the debate on the Supreme Court. Friedman speaks to some of the discussion I've had with @EVKontorovich (v. generous on his part). The question is not narrowly legal: it's *this* coalition, at *this* time.

https://twitter.com/MattiFriedman/status/1684596758913921024

Friedman is excellent. The very fact that Netanyahu would instrumentalize Ben Gvir-type fringe politicians--breaking with decade-long traditions of responsibility-- means that precisely this parliament, and precisely this PM, requires correction and constraint from courts.

As @OHR_BiH looks set to make elxn changes, some context (and a different analysis from 👇). What goes missing below is fact that state structures are founded in a peace agreement: Dayton. This is not unique: think Good Friday Agreements & Lebanese Taif Accords. A brief #thread🧵

https://twitter.com/JasminMuj/status/1549457687586304000

1. First bit of context necessary is the 1994 Washington Agreement. Here the US, at considerable trouble, forced a union between Bosniaks and Bosnian-Croats. Then a US negotiator for Clinton, @derekchollet in his seminal study of the Dayton Accords stresses the significance:

this is, thus far, some impressively dull poncery at least Balkan Ghosts had something sharply orientalist about it. This is a man meditating on the Eastern Adriatic doesn’t seem to serve Limoncello as readily.