The letter was signed by professor Amihood Amir of the Computer Science Department of Bar-Ilan University, who serves as chairman of Professors for a Strong Israel. “A minority rose and broke all the rules,” declaring that “it is glimpsing a slippery slope that may one day lead to a dictatorship that destroys the basis of our existence, and therefore all is permissible.” Israel’s social compact, by which conflicts are “resolved in parliament by compromises and coalitions,” has been broken, according to the group. However, the fabric of Israeli society has already been tremendously damaged,” the letter states. Now the coalition and opposition have convened to try and hammer out an agreement. “The government capitulated and halted the legislation opposed by a minority. The protesters’ victory was a Pyrrhic one in which the whole country lost, the group said (JNS) Professors for a Strong Israel issued an open letter on March 29 denouncing the protests against the government’s judicial reform program, saying democracy wasn’t saved but “trampled.”
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