The past few weeks/months/years have been interesting to say the least; and all surrounds the recent activities surrounding basic laws; my colleague David Enoch summarizes the situation here quite well.
I will leave it to him to explain it, and just add a sideobservation: Even though the struggle is against an eroding of constitutional principles in Israel primarily, I have the entirely subjective feeling that also discussions of the occupation and relations to the Palestinians have become more commonplace; perhaps it is the prospect of losing civil liberties, or it is awakening to the slowly increasing temperature in the cookpot, but I feel many discussions have been more open; and though there is more fighting among colleagues and friends, I also appreciate how alive and democracy are, not in the Knesset, perhaps, but on the street protesting.
