MORE ON KATZIR

Today's Ha'aretz has some useful coverage on the issue. I endorse the articles, with reservations, especially Ha'aretz typically uncritical appraisal of the Barak Court's Dworkinan understanding of democracy.

1) On the potential constitutional conflict.

2) The Attorney General's opposition to the bill

3) How the controversial bill is an effort to reestablish the status quo ante that existed prior to the Court's 2000 opinion.

4) The betrayal felt by Arab members of the Labor party of their leadership's failure to vote against the cabinet resolution supporting the bill (they were conveniently absent at the time of the cabinet vote).