"A key tool in this operation was his move to appoint loyalists with minimal qualifications – if any."
The strongman's playbook is to seize control of institutions of government, purge them of anyone but loyalists, the weaker and more ineffectual the better, then claim that the state is "stronger" as a result.
When the opposite is true….
#Netanyahu #Israel
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