FP This Week: What Israel’s showdown means for the U.S.

Plus: Oppenheimer's legacy; and the Wagner mutiny, one month later.

JULY 24, 2023  |  VIEW IN BROWSER  |  SUBSCRIBE Israeli security forces use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators blocking the entrance of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on July 24. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images On Monday, Israel's government passed a law, known as the reasonableness clause, that limits the Israeli Supreme Court's ability to overturn decisions made by government ministers. This action marks the capstone of a push for sweeping judicial reforms by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition of far-right and religious parties. FP Insiders can catch up on why Netanyahu and the Israeli right are so aggravated by the Supreme Court in this conversation between FP's Dan Ephron and Amir Tibon, a senior editor at the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Now that the first part of one of Israel's most contentious chapters has come to a close, what happens next? Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak shares his candid thoughts on an FP Live, predicting that Netanyahu will "double down. … At the end, he will fail." Meanwhile, in the United States, Israel's ongoing support of right-wing politics abroad has backfired, Yaseen Al-Sheikh argues. Finally, Aaron David Miller and Daniel Miller write that the United States has much to learn from the Israeli people's response to an attempted judicial juggernaut. "This protest movement has imbued Israel with a new energy and dynamism," they write. "It has created a focus on democracy, rights, and equality that hasn't been seen in years." 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