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my guest is a member of parliament in mr netanyahu's likud party, and former minister, danny danon.s the great survivor netanyahu nowjeopardising the future of israel? danny danon injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. it is a pleasure to have you on the show. would you agree that right now israel appears to be in a very perilous position? you have deep political turmoil at home and a security crisis at the very same time. the former makes it more difficult to deal with the latter, doesn't it? well, it is never boring here in israel. we are a very dynamic democracy and as you mentioned we don't have the best neighbours in the world and we have to face with the security issues and indeed in the last few days we've seen attacks from different directions and we believe it is not a coincidence. we think it is all coming from the same source, from iran, that is why we are dealing together with ourforces pushing back our enemies. surely the real lesson of the last few weeks is that you reap what you sow and the most extreme far—right in government, in israel's

my guest as a member of parliament in mr netanyahu's likud party, danny danon.s the great survivor netanyahu nowjeopardising the neta nyahu now jeopardising the future netanyahu nowjeopardising the future of israel? danny danon in jerusalem, welcome danny danon injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. danny danon in jerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for havin: welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. — welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. - welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. it- welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. it is- welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. it is a i for having me, stephen. it is a leasure for having me, stephen. it is a pleasure to — for having me, stephen. it is a pleasure to have _ for having me, stephen. it is a pleasure to have you - for having me, stephen. it is a pleasure to have you on - for having me, stephen. it is a pleasure to have you on the i pleasure to have you on the show, would you agree that right now israel appears to be in a very perilous positi

consensus as we speak right now, margaret, as we speak right now, there are teams of my own party, the likudition speaking in the president's house, the fifth or sixth meeting they've had, seeking the compromise that i think is the mark of democracies. you don't walk away from a problem. you try to solve it. >> walk away from your proposal. which would allow parliament with a simple majority to override any decision by the supreme court. that is your one check and balance on power, very different from the american system. i want to ask you about the makeup of your government because it is impacting u.s. relations. your finance minister calls himself a houma phobe and said a palestinian village should be erased. you said that was inappropriate. your public security minister was rejected from army service because of past ties to an extremist group designated by the u.s. as a terrorist organization. i know you need to keep your coalition together to prevent a collapse, but are you confident you can rein in people like this? >> i think a lot of them have changed over time and they themselves say

plummeted and the most recent poll has 71% disapproving of the job you are doing and even among your own likudople have a negative view of your job than positive and last week moody's downgraded israel's economic rating due to what it said was what reflects a deterioration of israel's governance as illustrated by the recent events around the government proposal for overhauling the country's judiciary. given all of this, have you decided to re-think and pull back on some of your reform ideas? >> well, you loaded so many things, many of them incorrect in your questions i'll try to -- how do you say that unpack that one by one. the first thing is that i look for a broad consensus on the judiciary. every democracy, including your own, has continuous tension between the judiciary and the executive or the legislative. that's happening in america. it's happening in france and it's happening in israel and it's a natural tension of trying to keep the balance between the three branches of government and israel is no different and in israel the last 30 years has been a growing litigation of the supreme c

these proposals came from the likud party they came from and were proposed and supported talking about the proposals. but that's what that's my. that's what my question is about my question. chin is about if those proposals if the prime minister's still believes and supports them in full, you say it's a time for compromise to get everybody in a room. why didn't that happen before there were tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people protesting for days. well, we had an election in israel several months ago. as you know. ah there's a mandate to push forward with judicial reform. there's obviously people in israel who were opposed to that reform, and the prime minister made a decision, which rarely happens in democratic countries , where an elected leaders have a mandate to do with their voters want them to do at the precipice of actually passing this legislation, he decided to suspend it, and he decided to give a chance to have a compromise and to have a discussion. i think that israel's internal divisions have been misinterpreted. this is why i caught talked about iran. misinter