it's the only institution they can go to to defend their rights . akiva alda is a political analyst and contributor to her it's newspaper. he describes israel's democracy as shallow. this is a typical american republican, a tea party, interpretation of democracy, which means that the people spoke up in the last elections. we've got the majority even if we got $61.00 out of $120.00. this is what democracy is about. and as the former president of the supreme court iraq said yesterday, in a very rare interview, this is a very general form of democracy if you want. this is a kind of fun, gary and polish democracy that is just now challenged in european court. and you know, this is something that never happened in israel, that the government has been actually hijacked by the government, the kinessa. and now what they're looking after is the judicial system by actually one person. because it now is the one who appoints a minister and he has the full authority to we move them if they will vote against any kind of revolution that he wants to pursue. he has got an automatic majority in the canis