by Yair Altman and Israel Hayom Staff
The Justice Ministry "won't allow left-wing organizations to set facts on the ground by dragging the court into the political sphere," Ayelet Shaked says
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Justice Minister
Ayelet Shaked
Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon
"The
High Court of Justice won't decide the future of the Judea and Samaria
settlement enterprise," Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said Tuesday,
adding her officer "will not allow left-wing organizations to set facts
on the ground by dragging the court into the political sphere."
Speaking at a Kohelet Policy Forum in
Jerusalem, Shaked said that "the Left can't win the election so they
[left-wing groups] file hundreds of nuisance petitions with the court
every year, effectively waging lawfare against the Israeli government.
We won’t be a party to it."
She stressed that the "government aims to
bolster the settlement enterprise," adding that when it comes to
petitions concerning this issue,
"The State Attorney's Office represents the
state – not the personal opinion of an individual attorney, certainly
not on an issue that is part of the government's core operations."
The government, Shaked said, "is stable,
and it will make it to 2019," when the next general elections are
scheduled to take place.
Construction Minister Yoav Gallant, who
also addressed the Kohelet forum on Tuesday, slammed the judiciary for
trying to "undermine the government."
"The ongoing judicialization [of politics]
weakens the political echelon while empowering the bureaucratic echelon,
which could eventually undercut democracy," he said.
"Under the current situation, the biggest
criminal has the right to voice his position, but the government and its
ministers don't have that right. What tools allow judges to know better
than military officials?
"The Supreme Court is not free of populism.
It's inconceivable that the Supreme Court knows more about security,
energy, and housing than the executive branch. The government wants to
hit the gas, but the judiciary keeps hitting the brakes," he said.
Yair Altman and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2017/10/25/justice-minister-high-court-wont-decide-future-of-settlement-enterprise/
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