Analysis: Does the settlements law have a prayer of getting past the High Court?
Anyone who reads the declassified transcript of Deputy Attorney- General Roy Schondorf’s pitch to the Knesset about why the settlements regulations law is illegal cannot help but be struck by the feeling that the Israeli legal establishment and coalition MKs, at least on this bill, are living on different planets.
This helps explain what will happen in the High Court of Justice when a coalition of groups from the Left file the inevitable petition to strike down the law down.
From overwhelming indications, the High Court will unanimously, or maybe with one dissenting vote from Justice Noam Sohlberg, strike down the legislation as illegal according to Israeli law.