Dozens of Israeli Air Force pilots have announced they will boycott military training in protest against the government’s legal reforms, which they see as a threat to democracy. In a letter sent to the Chief of Staff, 37 pilots threatened not to attend training scheduled for Wednesday.
“We will continue to serve the Jewish and democratic State of Israel at all times and beyond the borders (…), but we decided to take a day off to talk about the worrying processes facing the country,” explained one of the pilots. to the bodies, a means of communication in Israel, on condition of anonymity.
The judicial reform carried out by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu allows, in practice, that the deputies revoke decisions of the Supreme Court of Justice. For nine weeks, every Sunday in Tel Aviv, there have been street protests against this change in the law. Even this past weekend, more than 150,000 people demonstrated.
Israel’s former Justice and Foreign Minister Tzipi Lvini said that “democracy is at risk” and that the country has to “fight for its soul.”
Source: TSF
