Mental gymnastics at an Olympic level.

Hamas: terrorism. Israel: war crime. There, not too hard is it?

That's not the way it works in the rest of the free world. Judges are, by definition, trusted to be impartial interpreters of the law/constitution. That's their role.

The problem is that these judges are appointed through a political process, as about any government worker apparently is. This way you get a hyper politicized country, where even the job of librarian is no longer just a job, but an oppointment that should be strictly controlled.

It's absolutely baffling.

Exactly, different states still have their country as common ground. Most Europeans identify with their nationality first, and as a European second.

Post mortem by said media after the election: ‘How did he get so much coverage?’ 😲

Gotta ELI5 for this guy.