It is not changing separation of powers but rather decreasing the incidence of political nepotism where judges choose judges with political leaning. Pers is still pushing the painful concessions of the failed land for peace paradigm. He should resign and take the chameleon bib with him.

In the U.S. two of the separate powers, executive and legislative, are elected by the people. Judges are chosen by the executive and confirmed by the legislature. In Israel, as far as I can tell from Israeli newspapers, the judiciary is a self selected group with neither direct or indirect choice by the voters. They have no legitimacy.

for decades. And as usual the baabling old man makes no sense.

This old clown talks about making painful concessions to the enemy; thus, assuring Israel's downfall by way of giving-up more land to an enemy sworn to Israel's destruction. Does anyone else, in this Talkback, think that this is truly warped thinking in all of its logical, reasoning thought process...I sure do! It's like giving the house key to the criminal so he can rob you faster. And, to think the "Arab Spring" is anything else other than the Muslim Brotherhood trying to take control, is truly ignorant of the realities of the dire situation. Perez is unfit to be anything other than a doorman at your local hotel. It doesn't take much thought to opening a door and saying all the necessary pleasantries that the job entails. Maybe Dorit Benisch can join him; two foolish bookends lacking any real knowledge. God bless Israel!

What a ridiculous position. G-D is the law in a Jewish State. There is no such a thing as separation of powers. Power emanates from G-D and man should not interfere in this. Peres, time to retire, dude.

good for Israel and the Jewish people. The oslo death accords, arming pali terrorists,pardoning terrorists and the high court. Send this old man to an old age home and make sure he never talks with the outside again.

Is it any surprise that the left supports the left? Given Peres' long history of ignoring the will of the people, it hardly surprises that he supports a court that thinks it "knows better" and wishes not to be held accountable.

We sadly have no true democracy in Israel, else the man in the street would have stamped out corruption and bureaucracy long ago. We have a semblance of freedom of speech, within a straight jacket of legacy outdated systems, and that we need to protect from the leftists who want to commit national suicide Look at Europe; failure to protect true democracy led to surrender of sovereignty to Germany. I do not want the state of Israel dismantled with the end of Jewery for some failed communists prancing as progressives

This egomaniac is responsible for throwing down the red carpet for Arafat & masterminding the disastrous Oslo Accords (along with Beilin) behind Rabin's back which resulted in the deaths of thousands of Israelis. If he were a real man he would admit he was wrong & admit that everything the PA says & does shows that they have no interest in peace with Israel or accepting it as a Jewish state. It's no surprise he supports Beinsich who has tried to legislate from the bench & undermine Israel's democracy.

I like your post.

Ridiculous, maybe. That God (no need to omit letters here seeing as that's not actually his unspeakable name) is actually the law in today's Israel is more ridiculous. Alternatively, you could say it's ridiculous to say that he *does*, but that there is not this "Jewish State." And so, while there's not a prophet-king on the throne of Judea, Jews should use the God-given powers of reasoning to come to some reasonable peace until there comes one. Also, before we get the prophet-king, who gets to interpret God's law? The Karaites? The Rabbinate? Which one, Khasidic? Orthodox? Conservative? Reform? The Yemenites? Chabad or Satmar? What if your chosen leaders happen to be anti-Zionist? Do you all listen to them or do you throw them out and pick someone who agrees with you? Saying that God IS the law in this Jewish State solves nothing. Might as well say that God IS the law in the whole world (including IL). It's true, and yet it solves nothing. Sorry to be so blunt about it but if you're going to call someone's opinion out as ridiculous you've got to be prepared for some recoil :-/