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ISRAEL PREPARES TO GO ALONE AGAINST IRAN
written by David Mark April 16, 2023 729 views
As America’s influence in the Middle East begins to recede, Israel finds itself standing more alone than ever against the rising threat of Iran.

Will Israel Face Iran ALONE? Iran VOWS Jerusalem Will Belong to Palestinians | Watchman Newscast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdIhh9zdgHs&t=1s

Only a short while ago it was assumed that the Abraham Accords was successful in isolating Iran, but now Saudi Arabia and even the UAE have looked to Iran to reach some sort of normalization accords with it. This would flip the Abraham Accords on its head.

Iran has struck long term defense pacts with China and now Russia, giving it full backing on the international stage. Israel remains ever more surrounded by its enemies with a USA that appears more fractured than ever.

The current government is already preparing to undergo the operation alone. It has moved iron dome systems to its borders with Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria as well as closing multiple areas up to 6km on Israel’s border due to potential hazards, per notices to airmen (NOTAMs).

Bibi appears to be distracted with building support in France and Germany as well as Italy for Israel’s positions, but that is part of the coming battle. Already France has begun to push back on the Biden administration in a number of areas. Germany has pledged to buy military supplies from Israel, and Italy has signed up for a large gas deal.

The Netanyahu government is about to embark on an independent course of action and with it, the world we know may change forever.

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ISRAEL’S POST-DEMOCRACY MOMENT
written by Melanie Phillips March 26, 2023 1220 views
The massive protests rocking the country are about far more than judicial reform.
(JNS) The political crisis in Israel over the government’s judicial reforms has deepened.
An increasing number of institutions and prominent individuals have called for the changes to be halted. All are deeply alarmed by the enormous demonstrations that they perceive as posing an increasing threat to Israel’s security and the social resilience on which that security depends.

After Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant threatened to call publicly for the reforms to be halted, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on TV to speak to the nation.

The reforms would address fears on both sides, he said. They would broaden the makeup of the Supreme Court, safeguard civil rights for all citizens and reinstate a proper equilibrium between politicians and the judiciary.

This is unlikely to bring much-needed calm to the situation. Israel’s current maelstrom is not in the pattern of normal political protest. It represents an existential upset.

The focus of opposition is the proposed judicial reforms. The protests are also fueled, however, by fear of the nationalist and religious ultras in the governing coalition and by hatred of Netanyahu, who for some people has achieved near-demonic status.

Significant as these factors are, a convulsion of this magnitude suggests that something even more fundamental is at play. What is striking about the protests is the irrationality at their core. Although there are legitimate concerns about aspects of the reform package, the overwrought opposition to it is out of all proportion.

The protesters claim, for example, that giving politicians a decisive role in selecting new judges, as is being proposed, will destroy the rule of law and an independent judiciary.

They say the changes, which would stop the courts from overturning laws made by the Knesset, end the power of legal advisers to prevent government ministers from enacting the policy programs for which they were elected and end the slippery concept of “reasonableness” through which the judges have substituted politics and ideology for law, would herald the end of democracy and the abolition of civil rights.

Yet as law professor Avi Bell has pointed out, for many decades after the State of Israel was founded, only the Knesset could legislate and no court could overturn legislation for any reason. Attorneys-general and all other legal advisers could be dismissed and their legal opinions bound no one. No government action could be reversed by the Supreme Court simply because the Court considered it “unreasonable.”

In other words, the reforms will largely return Israel to the situation that prevailed before 1993, when Supreme Court President Aharon Barak launched his revolutionary campaign of judicial activism.

So, what explains this unprecedented uproar? The clue lies in the claim that the reforms spell the end of democracy in Israel, whose values will no longer be recognizably Jewish.

In fact, at the core of the protests lies an attack on Jewish values.

Judaism has something important to say about both law and politics. Law is central to the Torah and therefore to Judaism. Moreover, during the Davidic monarchy, judges—along with prophets and priests—provided an essential brake on the otherwise despotic powers of the monarch.

So, judges have always played an important role in Jewish civic life. But of even more fundamental importance to Judaism is the principle that the laws themselves are rooted in popular consent.

The authority of Moses had to be grounded in the consent of the people and their promise to obey the laws he was promulgating, as was done at Sinai, where the people asked Moses to relay the word of God to them and said, “We will do and we will hear.”

This emphasis on public consent at the very core of Judaism, as well as Judaism’s practice of limited government, made a deep impression on the thinkers who helped formulate the civic patterns that ultimately created Western democracy.

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes highlighted Judaism’s doctrine of public consent, as did the framers of what became Britain’s constitutional monarchy in the 18th century. The Davidic monarchy became the template for the British Crown.

In America, the Hebrew Bible is a conspicuous element of its foundational institutions and laws. The Liberty Bell that sits in Independence Hall in Philadelphia is engraved with an inscription from Leviticus: “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”

Democracy is rooted in this core principle: The laws governing the people are founded upon the consent of the people. That consent is demonstrated by the people’s election of representatives in parliament who pass those laws. That’s why, although government needs checks and balances, the elected parliament in a Western nation is supreme.

But now, the very idea of the Western nation itself is under sustained assault. The progressive narrative, so dominant in Western culture, holds that the Western nation is exclusive, racist and oppressive.

National laws must therefore be superseded by universal “human rights” laws promulgated by international judges, as well as domestic judges who prioritize those laws over the laws of their own nation. The democratic process by which those national laws are formed and passed is disdained.

That process is what is now under attack in Israel by those protesting against the judicial reforms. The agenda of the politicians who have been elected by the people conflicts with the liberal universalism of man-made human rights that prioritizes approved minorities over the majority and is promulgated by Israel’s activist Supreme Court.

As the American foreign-policy specialist David Wurmser has observed, the “illiberal” left no longer believes that elections matter. They believe instead that there is a moral objective to policy matters that the left has the power to divine and define.

For such elites, ordinary people who don’t share their views are the “deplorables.” By contrast, the judges—educated, liberal, cosmopolitan—are people like themselves.

Although the massive protests in Israel consist overwhelmingly of the left (with the backing of groups with a malign agenda towards Israel) others have joined them because they are frightened by the ultras in the government, and by what they perceive to be an opening for authoritarian or dictatorial government as a result of the judicial reforms.

Nevertheless, what all the protesters have in common is that, at base, they would prefer rule by judges to rule by an elected government. Although one might recoil from some members of the government or despair of Israel’s dysfunctional political system, this is a dangerous tipping point—and one that has a baleful resonance far beyond Israel.

For this is the West’s post-democracy moment, in which a dominant mindset is prioritizing universal laws over national ones, elevating the legitimacy of street protests and appointing politically activist judges as the shock troops of the progressive assault on traditional values.

As Wurmser observed, this view of the world has a following in Israel, which has produced a “core quasi-judicial tyranny through the judiciary.”

This, he said, has made Israel into “the dream palace of far-left European progressives. A structure of courts that even Europe has rejected or most countries in Europe still have not ratified.”

Faced now with a threat to that judicial power, Wurmser asserted, the “illiberal left” in Israel, America and the West is willing to launch a kind of “civil war on some level and burn down the governments in the countries they’re in order to ensure that their power is either secured or preserved.”

In other words, this is no longer a protest against government policy. It represents a fundamental split in the West over how to view the world and how society should be ordered.

It is an extremely dangerous inflection point, not just for Israel but for Western civilization, in a battle for which Israel’s beleaguered government is now revealed to be the unwitting outlier.

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NETANYAHU SPEAKS TO THE GENERALS
written by Caroline Glick April 13, 2023 2057 views
For weeks, Israeli opposition leaders and retired generals have been issuing statements presaging Israel’s imminent collapse and calling for IDF soldiers to refuse to serve.

(JNS) The Israeli public reasonably expected a dramatic announcement was coming when the Prime Minister’s Bureau announced Monday afternoon that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would give a prime-time press conference that evening from the Prime Minister’s Office at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv rather than the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Over the past several days, Israel has found itself in the midst of a simultaneous and coordinated assault. It has suffered terror attacks countrywide and rocket volleys from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.

And Iran is on the cusp of independent military nuclear capabilities.

On its face, though, Netanyahu’s press conference did not provide the expected drama. His rendering of the situation was minimalist and descriptive, rather than analytic or thematic. He noted Iran in passing. He described with near antiseptic spareness the retaliatory attacks Israel has carried out against rocket stores and other military infrastructure in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, and its counterterror operations in Judea and Samaria. He praised the IDF and Israel’s other security services. Netanyahu did not gather the public in front of their television sets at 8:15 in the evening to declare war.

So why did Netanyahu do it?

To understand his purpose, and why despite the absence of any major statement, Netanyahu’s press conference was a dramatic event, it has to be viewed in the context of news that hit Israel like a thunderclap the day before.

On Sunday, Israelis awoke to The New York Times’ revelation that among the hundreds of top-secret Pentagon documents that were leaked through esoteric gaming chat groups was one related to the internal political unrest in Israel.

The document originated from the CIA’s March 1 intelligence briefing. Its headline blasted, “Israeli Mossad Encourages Protests Against New Government Over Proposed Judicial Reforms.”

The body of the report read, “In early to mid-February, Israeli Secret Intelligence Service (Mossad) leaders advocated for Mossad officials and Israeli citizens to protest against the new Israeli Government’s proposed judicial reforms, including several explicit calls to action that decried the Israeli Government, according to signals intelligence.”

Beyond the fact that the U.S. is spying on Israel and concerning itself with Israel’s domestic politics, two things are significant about the report. First, while news reports from the CIA’s reporting period of early to mid-February already exposed that Mossad’s leadership was tolerant, if not supportive, of the left’s efforts to overthrow the Netanyahu government, the CIA report claimed that the leaders of Israel’s primary espionage service were organizing those efforts. In other words, the CIA was claiming that Israel was in the midst of an insurrection or coup organized at least partially by its security services.

The Mossad denied the CIA report, but it’s hard to know what to think. The Mossad has a record of disloyalty. In 2012, it was revealed that two years earlier, then-Mossad Director Meir Dagan flew to Washington and informed his CIA counterpart Leon Panetta that Netanyahu had ordered the Mossad to prepare to strike Iran’s nuclear installations. Dagan had already refused to obey Netanyahu’s order.

While uncertainty surrounds the veracity of the current report, it shows us that the U.S. believes that the anti-government protests are being organized by the top leaders of Israel’s security apparatus. And apparently acting on this CIA-based conviction, President Joe Biden and all his senior aides have been openly supporting the opposition and its efforts not merely to block Netanyahu’s governing coalition’s efforts to pass legislation that would place modest limits on the now limitless powers of Israel’s Supreme Court and its attorney general. They seem to support the protest’s now explicit goal of toppling the government itself.

All of this would be terrible under any circumstances. But in Israel, internal developments always impact strategic realities. For the past several weeks, Iran’s media have trumpeted statements by Israeli opposition leaders and retired generals presaging Israel’s imminent collapse and calling for IDF soldiers to refuse orders to serve.

Imminent destruction
Citing these statements, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Hossein Salami, along with various Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders and preachers, have given speeches declaring that Israel is falling apart and its destruction is imminent and calling for their jihadist forces to prepare for victory.

On Sunday, Dr. Mordechai Kedar, one of Israel’s premier scholars of the Arab world, seemed to bring it all home when he published a dire warning in the Makor Rishon newspaper. Kedar set out what many in the Arab world assess to be Iran’s plan for war against Israel in granular detail.

Briefly, the plan Kedar set out involves a mass missile onslaught against Israel by Iran’s proxies in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Yemen. Those attacks, which will deplete Israel’s Iron Dome missile inventory, will be carried out in tandem with acts of cyber warfare targeting vital command and control and civilian targets.

Simultaneously, Israeli Arabs and Palestinians in Judea and Samaria will carry out sabotage, mob violence and terror throughout Israel, Judea and Samaria.

Following on the heels of these assaults, ground forces from Lebanon and Gaza will invade Israel and assault Jewish communities in accordance with Hezbollah’s operational plans that were widely published several years ago.

Kedar’s report was quickly disseminated to WhatsApp groups and other social media platforms, inducing panicked discussions throughout all quarters of Israeli society.

This brings us back to Netanyahu’s seemingly anodyne press conference in Tel Aviv. Netanyahu’s one substantive announcement was that he is retaining Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Netanyahu’s office had announced his intention to fire Gallant two weeks earlier after Gallant gave a primetime speech excoriating the government’s judicial reform program while Netanyahu was in London.

Notably, Netanyahu stood alone on Monday evening. Under normal circumstances, when a prime minister gives a briefing at military headquarters in Tel Aviv, he is flanked by the senior IDF and national security brass along with the defense minister. At a minimum, given Netanyahu’s announcement that he is not following through with his plan to fire Gallant, Gallant could have been expected to join Netanyahu at the press conference. We don’t know what his absence signals. What we do know is what Netanyahu said, and no less important, how he said what he said. Together, they lead us to Netanyahu’s purpose and why he was willing to forego Gallant’s presence Monday night.

Rejection of refusal to serve
Netanyahu in his remarks emphasized three points: his predecessors’ incompetent management of Israel’s security challenges; the unity of purpose shared by all Israelis to defend the state from its enemies; and the unanimity of national rejection of refusal to serve.

At the outset of his prepared remarks, Netanyahu placed the blame for Israel’s enemies’ current sense of empowerment on the shoulders of the Lapid-Bennett government. He explained that by forming a government dependent for its existence on the Muslim Brotherhood’s Ra’am (United Arab List) Party, the previous government took no action to fight Hamas’s growing military capabilities in Gaza and Lebanon until after it had fallen in a no-confidence vote and elections were called.

Netanyahu condemned the gas deal that then-interim prime minister and current opposition leader Yair Lapid concluded with Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon days before the Nov. 1 Israeli elections. That deal, which saw Israel surrender significant portions of its sovereign and economic waters and a natural gas field to Hezbollah in exchange for absolutely nothing, was supported and defended by the IDF despite the self-evident danger it poses.

Judged by its substance, the apparent purpose of Netanyahu’s assault on the previous government’s weakness was twofold. First, he wanted to remind the public how we arrived at the current moment, where Hezbollah, Hamas and their Iranian bosses believe they can attack Israel with impunity. And second, Netanyahu wanted to implicitly remind the IDF and Mossad senior brass of their own role in facilitating the irresponsible and destructive gas deal.

In light of the leaked CIA report, and the leadership role retired generals have played in fomenting the anti-government insurrection over the past three months, Netanyahu’s decision to speak from the heart of the national security establishment in Tel Aviv rather than the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem was central to the message of national unity-of-purpose he sought to deliver to Israel’s enemies. Over the course of his half-hour press conference, Netanyahu repeatedly returned to the theme that Israel’s enemies are misreading Israel’s united determination to defend the country from all aggressors. His laconic rendition of the steps the IDF has taken under his government’s orders was geared towards driving home the united seriousness of purpose and the IDF’s acceptance of governmental authority and power. Netanyahu repeatedly asserted his own authority and responsibility for protecting Israel. At one point he made this point explicit. “It is my responsibility,” he said.

The third and most pronounced message Netanyahu communicated Monday evening was the illegitimacy of refusing to follow orders. When asked about his effort to reach an agreement with the political opposition regarding judicial reform, Netanyahu responded that he has two goals vis-à-vis his work with the political opposition.

First, he said, he seeks to negotiate an agreed-upon plan to limit the powers of the Supreme Court. This is a goal, he said, that a large majority of Israelis support.

Second and clearly more important when judged by Netanyahu’s rhetorical fervor, Netanyahu said that he intends to reach—and indeed, he claimed, he has already achieved—consensus on the “absolute rejection of the refusal to serve.” Netanyahu repeated this point multiple times throughout his remarks.

This final point more than anything else he said drove home the identity of Netanyahu’s main target audience. That audience was not the jittery public, although addressing its concerns was important. Netanyahu’s main audience was the security brass from whose headquarters Netanyahu spoke and whose absence at the rostrum was impossible to ignore.

Bearing in mind Kedar’s warning and Netanyahu’s own (less dramatic but relatively detailed) recitation of the nature of the coordinated assault Israel is already experiencing, it appears that the purpose of Netanyahu’s press conference was to gently but firmly assert his authority over the generals by forcing them to contend with the real threats facing Israel.

For years, Israel’s generals have stated publicly that the gravest threat facing Israel is the divisions within Israeli society. By repeatedly making these statements, and then standing foursquare with the left and pushing its policies from within the security apparatus, Israel’s military leadership wasn’t repairing those divisions. They were stoking and exacerbating them. The consequence of their actions and statements has been the unprecedented statements over the past three months by reserve pilots and members of the IDF’s critical technology units refusing to serve under the government.

Netanyahu’s highlighting the fact that the public as a whole rejects the legitimacy of refusing to serve facilitated his assertion of his own governing authority over the recalcitrant generals. By setting out the threats Israel is now facing, and rightly asserting the all but universal rejection of refusal to serve, Netanyahu was telling the generals that Israeli society isn’t divided on core issues. It is united. The primary threat Israel faces is Iran, not domestic disunity. And under Netanyahu’s leadership, whether Gallant is defense minister or not, the IDF, Mossad, Shin Bet and police are required to make defending Israel against Iran and its proxies their top and indeed their only priority.

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US SENATOR EXPOSED DEMOCRATS IN A SPEECH THAT LEFT CONGRESS IN SHOCK
written by Phil Schneider March 28, 2023 7303 views
Tom Cotton is right on when he exposes that US taxpayer money is working to bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under the guise of support for “democracy in Israel.” Actually, what US taxpayers are funding are demonstrations by misguided Israelis to keep Israel from becoming a true democracy.
Here is the full speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6sCAS9SjQY

A few years ago, Israel had elections and Benjamin Netanyahu was unable to muster a majority of elected Knesset members to vote for him to be Prime Minister. It was a personal defeat for him and he led the opposition for more than a year. Then, that government was unable to keep their majority and in the ensuing elections, Netanyahu won – big. He received a 64 person majority in the 120 member Knesset. For Israel, that is a significant majority, but it does not insure that he will stay in power for many years. His government exists due to the confidence that the voters have or do not have in him. He must work overtime to keep at least 61 people voting for him to stay in power. That is what is called a democracy.

But Netanyahu’s detractors insist that he is dictatorial while in power. That is somewhere between an exaggeration and an outright lie. He certainly has and can be brought down by his opposition via a Knesset vote of no-confidence, so he is obviously not a dictator.

On the other hand, Israel lacks term limits, except in the Chief Rabbinate. Lack of term limits does indeed allow one person to accrue too much power over the course of time of being in the most powerful position for an extended amount of time. Netanyahu is probably the best example of why term limits would be a good thing in Israel. He has been Prime Minister for around 15 of the last 27 years. Too many of his personal enemies have disappeared from the political scene and too many of his close supporters are in important positions of power. So, there is indeed some truth that Israel’s Prime Ministerial position has too much power.

Yet, none of the protests against Netanyahu espouse term limits. The protesters scream about democracy and openly threaten violence. But actually, what is needed are more limitations on the power of the unelected Judiciary. Israel’s right wing should probably have first worked on curtailing the power of the Judiciary, and then on the method of electing the Judiciary itself. But the right wing overreached and underestimated the ability of the radical and anarchist left to gain support from middle-of-the-roaders. Most of “middle Israel” wants stability and chaotic anarchists know how to attack that fear very effectively. Now Israel’s right wing leaders are weakly succumbing to the violence of the left that is willing to “burn down the country” if they don’t get their way. The short-term battle to reform Israel’s Judiciary has not succeeded. But the right-wing is determined to continue the fight.

One important thing is going to be the result of Israel’s tumultuous protest and anti-protest movements. Israel’s radical left and the enormous power that it has on the mainstream press in Israel, the heads of the police, and especially the courts, have now been exposed for all to see. The right-wing needs to regroup and fight back with more planning. The only way to beat the left is with a massive media blitz – internet ads, massive billboards and massive demonstrations – that prepares the public for major changes by displaying who indeed represents Israel’s majority.

Tom Cotton is correct. Israel’s majority wants Netanyahu and his policies. They do not want US taxpayer money going to support so-called “democracy movements” dedicated to toppling him through violent demonstrations.

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IRAN IS ON THE MOVE
written by Micha Gefen April 13, 2023 54 views
Iran has been preparing the groundwork an all out war on Israel for some time. Now with Russian and Chinese backing – it may be coming fast.
WATCHMAN NEWSCAST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urlB_5NeNFo&t=52s

Iran has bolstered its supplies to both Hezbollah and its groups in Syria as well as strengthening Hamas. More than that Iran itself has thwarted all attempts at restraining its nuclear program and is moments away from a nuclear weapon.

The Ayatollahs have struck a long term defense pact with China and are readily providing Russia with attack drones. This development essentially means that Iran is protected by the world’s super powers and if strikes back it can be attacked by them.

This is the quandary Israel’s leadership is in. It is attacked from within and surrounded from the outside.
https://www.israelunwired.com/a-new-phase-in-u-s-israel-relations/?
A NEW PHASE IN U.S.-ISRAEL RELATIONS
written by Caroline Glick April 3, 2023 2102 views
The Biden administration’s statements and actions this week, coupled with its overall policies towards Israel since entering office, indicate a sea change.

(JNS) Israel was rocked by the news on Thursday that the U.S. State Department had ordered NASA scientist Dr. Amber Straughn to cancel her participation in the Israel Physical Society’s annual meeting. The news came following Straughn’s posting on Twitter that her “travel authorization was revoked” on Wednesday.

The State Department’s move, which gives the appearance of an official boycott, would be stunning under any circumstance. But it is all the more alarming coming on the heels of U.S. President Joe Biden’s shocking remarks in relation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s efforts to place minimal limits on the Supreme Court’s currently limitless powers.

In apparently off-the-cuff remarks to reporters on Tuesday, Biden said curtly: “Like many strong supporters of Israel I am very concerned, and I’m concerned that they get this [judicial reform] straight. They cannot continue down this road. Hopefully, the prime minister will act in a way that he’s going to try to work out some genuine compromise. But that remains to be seen.”

Then, after interfering in Israel’s domestic affairs, Biden added: “We’re not interfering. They know my position. They know America’s position. They know the American Jewish position.”

When in a follow-up a reporter asked Biden if he would invite Netanyahu to the White House, the president’s response was immediate and unhesitating.

“No, not in the near term.”

Even before the State Department ordered Straughn to cancel her trip, it was abundantly clear that Biden’s statement wasn’t a fluke. And it wasn’t about Netanyahu. Despite the occasional compliments that Biden and his advisers showered on Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett, the administration’s policies were not more pro-Israel when they were in power. Notwithstanding the failure of the administration’s nuclear diplomacy with Iran last year, the Biden administration remained committed to its policy of appeasing Iran and facilitating its nuclear advancement, despite the previous government’s expressed opposition.

The Biden administration’s single-minded commitment to its pro-Iran policy was most unmistakable in the strong-arm tactics it used to force Lapid to agree to a gas deal with Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon on the eve of the Nov. 1 elections. Under the terms of the deal, in exchange for absolutely nothing, Israel was required to cede its sovereign waters and economic waters, and a natural-gas deposit to Lebanon.

The deal gave Iran’s Lebanese proxy a cash windfall and a foothold in the Eastern Mediterranean. When Israel tried to draw out negotiations, Biden publicly hectored Lapid to close a deal. He refused to speak with Lapid on the phone for months and only did so after Lapid capitulated to Hezbollah demands—transmitted by the U.S. interlocutors.

Then there are the Palestinians. Throughout the previous government’s time in office, the Biden administration was open about its rejection of Israel’s national and legal rights in Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem. They sided with illegal Arab squatters and their supporters as they rioted against their Jewish landlords and Jewish neighbors in Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood in Jerusalem. They opposed Israel’s counterterror operations and opened an FBI investigation against soldiers and officers in the Israel Defense Forces.

The administration subverted the Abraham Accords by compelling Israel to accept the Palestinians in the Abraham Accord summits. Palestinian participation transformed what had been a working alliance against Iran into a pile-on against Israel—orchestrated and led by the State Department.

As for Democrats in Congress, they drew out the approval process of supplemental Iron Dome missiles following “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” making clear that Democrat-controlled congresses cannot be expected to automatically approve military aid to Israel.

All of this happened while the Israeli left was in power.

One of the notable aspects of Biden’s remarks on Tuesday is that the day before, Netanyahu already shelved his government’s judicial reform bill and opted to negotiate with opposition leaders to see if it is possible to reach a compromise package acceptable to a broader majority. Biden’s decision to escalate his rhetoric after Netanyahu had agreed to Biden’s position indicates that the administration was less interested in blocking judicial reform than in destabilizing Netanyahu’s government.

The administration’s statements and actions this week, coupled with its overall policies towards Israel since entering office, indicate that Israel has reached a new phase in its relationship with America.

Until now, Israel had a strategic alliance with the United States. Now as a decade of polling has shown, Israel is viewed with hostility by some Americans, and it is strongly supported by other Americans. The most recent poll of U.S. support by Gallup makes the point explicitly.

The poll showed that overall, most Americans are more supportive of Israel than of the Palestinians. But for the first time, 49% of Democrats are more sympathetic towards the Palestinians than towards Israel. A total of 38% of Democrats are more sympathetic towards Israel. Among Republicans, 78% are more supportive of Israel, and a mere 11% are more sympathetic to the Palestinians. Independents are likewise more supportive of Israel than the Palestinians but by a smaller margin.

All the same, the Democrats are one of two parties. And currently, they are more supportive of the Palestinians than of Israel, and that preference is reflected in administration and congressional policies and actions.

A different, deeper understanding of American society

How is Israel supposed to handle this new relationship?

The first place to look for answers is in the past. In the 1950s and 1960s, France was Israel’s closest ally. But following France’s withdrawal from Algeria, then-French President Charles de Gaulle turned towards the Arabs and against Israel.

Two things are different about Israel’s current crisis with the United States and the fracture of its relations with France. First, de Gaulle was at the height of his power and popularity when he turned his back on Israel. So when he abandoned Israel, he took France with him. This isn’t the case with Biden and America.

Following Biden’s remarks, some Israeli commenters argued that Biden is likely the last Democrat President who will define himself as a Zionist. If current trends continue, no future Democrat president will risk expressing support for Israel.

The truth is more complicated. For the past 20 years, progressives have built a creed predicated on identity politics. They wove together a coalition of predetermined victim groups tied to one another though the concept of “intersectionality.” Intersectionality asserts that all “victim” groups are automatically aligned. The Palestinians had long been allied with some of the designated victim groups—first and foremost, black nationalists tied to Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam. Using its existing alliances, pro-Palestinian activists lobbied to be included in the intersectional alliance. Their success was not a foregone conclusion. But so far, it has been wildly successful and has been instrumental in undermining support for Israel and the position of Jews in the progressive camp and the Democrat Party.

To change the situation, Israel needs to work assiduously to fray the unanimity of hostility among members of the progressive alliance. This won’t be easy. The work requires a different, deeper understanding of American society than most Israelis possess. But it is doable. Israel can make inroads within the African-American community, and the Latino and Asian communities. It can rebuild its longstanding relationships with labor unions, and high-tech and financial-sector professional associations, among others.

Beyond that, Israel needs to maintain and shore up its ties with the people and sectors of American society who support it. This includes evangelical Christians, Catholics and other conservative groups.

The most astounding claim Biden made in his Tuesday diatribe was that his views are shared by American Jews. Certainly, some American Jewish groups oppose the Israeli right. U.S. Jewish groups One Voice and the New Israel Fund, among others, reportedly financed a significant chunk of the left’s anti-government campaign for the past three months. Progressive Jewish groups are increasingly willing to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with anti-Zionists and BDS activists.

All the same, most American Jews are supportive of Israel, regardless of who is in power. They do not support the administration’s pro-Iran policies or its pro-Palestinian bias. Israel needs to stand with and empower this majority. It must stand with them as they defend themselves and their right to support Israel on campuses, in their workplaces and in their communities.

As for Israel’s relationship with the administration itself, it is fairly clear that Israel needs to recalibrate its strategic posture. It is impossible to know whether the Biden administration will want to negotiate another long-term military aid agreement, and it is also unclear whether Israel is better or worse off maintaining its position as a recipient of U.S. military aid.

Israel may be better off paying for U.S. military platforms out of its own pocket and transforming its relationship from that of a client into one of a partner in defense technology development. On March 13, the U.S. Air Force conducted another unsuccessful test of one of the two hypersonic missiles it is developing. Washington may or may not want Israel’s help with its hypersonic missile program, which is lagging far behind China and Russia’s programs. But Israel is probably the only U.S. ally capable of helping. Certainly, under the present circumstances, Israel’s relationship with the United States will be more secure if it is based on collaboration in areas of mutual interest rather than dependence.

With the U.S. position on issues of critical importance to Israel—first and foremost, Iran and the Palestinians, changing completely depending on the president’s partisan affiliation— Israel needs to stop relying on America on issues that require continuous, high-intensity cooperation.

Building interest-based partnerships with other nations

This brings us to the second difference between the new phase we have entered in U.S.-Israel ties and de Gaulle’s breach of Franco-Israeli ties in the 1960s. When the French leader turned on Israel, Israel had the United States more or less at the ready, willing to replace France as Israel’s superpower ally. Today, Israel has no alternative waiting in the wings.

But it may not need one. Israel is much more powerful today than it was in the 1960s. It doesn’t need a protector; it needs partners. Beginning in 2013, Netanyahu began a process of building interest-based partnerships with nations across the region and across the world. These relationships with states in the region and worldwide already form the nucleus of a strategic posture that can secure Israel’s position.

Biden’s statement on Tuesday was roundly applauded by Israeli leftists hell-bent on overthrowing Netanyahu’s government. They would do well to think this through. Sure, Biden has issues with Netanyahu. But the policies Biden pursues vis-à-vis Iran and the Palestinians work to Israel’s strategic disadvantage regardless of who is in power, as his strong-arming of Lapid on the Hezbollah gas deal made clear.

Biden is not de Gaulle, in stature or in influence. American support for Israel is diminishing in some quarters. Still, it remains strong overall. Much can be done to change the situation for the better. And Israel is a powerful, wealthy nation with viable alternatives to strategic dependence on the United States.

This has been a bad week for Israel-U.S. relations, but it isn’t cause for despair. Rather, it is cause for a sober-minded reassessment and rearrangement of Israel’s relations with America to bring them in line with current realities.



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THEIR PROTESTS, NOT OURS: PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT’S REACTION TO ISRAEL’S POLITICAL UPHEAVAL
written by Ben Cohen April 2, 2023 864 views
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If you advocate a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against a nation in toto, then you end up judging the protests before you have even assessed them.
(JNS) Over the last fortnight, the political upheaval in Israel has generated unprecedented global interest in the Jewish state’s internal governance. The world has quickly learned about Israel’s lack of a written constitution, as well as its electoral system that turns small parties into kingmakers, against the background of angry demonstrations rejecting the proposed judicial reforms of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. The protests have typically been described as “historic” and “revolutionary,” with the associated warning that the political crisis will become an existential one sooner rather than later.

From Egypt to Ukraine to Brazil to the other 129 countries which, according to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, have experienced “significant protests” since 2017, the display of “people power” in the face of authoritarian and often corrupt governments invariably captures the attention of the world’s media outlets. In purely visual terms, the stories can be riveting. Hundreds of thousands of protesters massing in public squares, urgent chants ringing out from the crowd and columns of police officers in riot gear all give a sense of history in the making. The demonstrations in Israel’s cities and towns have echoed similar activism in other parts of the world, communicating to the uninitiated—as they survey the sea of Israeli flags carried by the protesters—the message that those taking to the streets love their country but loathe their government.

Not everyone has been moved by the protests, however. Among the Palestinians and their various solidarity organizations around the world, the response has ranged from sullen indifference to outright hostility.

At first glance, this reaction is puzzling. One might expect Israel’s adversaries to be glued to its political crisis, if only to obtain a clearer understanding of how the enemy might unravel. But other than a handful of exceptions, the legions of writers and activists who devote their days to promoting the Palestinian national cause have behaved as though the Israeli protest movement is an irrelevance that distracts the eyes of the media from Israel’s role as an “occupier” of Palestinian lands.

That’s because, on deeper reflection, the trajectory of Palestinian nationalism guards against too much intimacy with the hopes, divisions and ambitions among Israelis, preferring to stress the contention that Israel is a settler-colonial state born in original sin. After all, the very act of protest can humanize a society, conveying to outsiders a sense of the complexities that lie beyond ideological rigidities. Through the protests, the world has been reminded that there are Israelis who support Netanyahu and those who oppose him, many with every fiber of their being; that there are Israelis who back territorial compromise with the Palestinians as well as those who wish to extend Israeli sovereignty over every part of the land from the Mediterranean to the River Jordan; that there are Israelis who are devoutly religious and those who are militantly secular; that Hebrew can be a language of protest as well as a language of “occupation”; and that, in common with other democratic societies, these deep social and political divisions are an inevitable byproduct of life in a free society.

The Palestinian national movement and its international echo chamber can’t really cope with an interpretation like this one. Part of the reasoning here can be explained through the methods that it uses; if you advocate a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against a nation in toto—so that you put its private companies, its government agencies, its artists, academics, athletes and everyone else associated with it into a permanent state of quarantine—then you end up judging the protests before you have even assessed them.

“The current protest movement in Israel is not a movement to transform Israeli politics. It is not even a movement for democracy,” wrote Sai Englert, a Dutch academic specializing in Middle East affairs, in the online journal Middle East Eye—one of the few articles about the protests deemed worthy of appearing in a pro-Palestinian outlet.

“It is a movement that fights to maintain the Israeli status quo: a society built on stolen land and the ongoing exclusion of Palestinians, which rubber stamps its colonial rule through a legal system that only itself recognizes,” he continued. For the U.S.-based Palestinian journalist Ramzy Baroud, writing in the Palestine Chronicle, the most significant aspect of the protests was simply that “Netanyahu and his fellow extremists seem determined to damage Israel’s relations with the ally which provides the occupation state with at least $3.8 billion in U.S. military aid every year (emphasis in original).” For the BDS proponent Ali Abunimah, writing in the Electronic Intifada, all that fundamentally matters is that “no Zionist can … really disagree” with Israeli Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich’s opinion that the Palestinians are an “invented people” because that claim has been, he insists, a hallmark of Zionist belief and practice from the Jewish national movement’s inception.

The hundreds of thousands of Israelis who oppose Smotrich while identifying as Zionists and proudly brandishing their national flag are, according to these sorts of analyses, merely an example of bad faith on a mass level. Before anything else, their argument goes, Israelis are settler-colonialists united by a collective determination to exclude the original Palestinian Arab inhabitants of the country. Their protests, therefore, can never be our protests.

At this juncture, it’s worth remembering that the goal of the BDS movement is the elimination of Israel as a Jewish, democratic state and its replacement with a State of Palestine in which former citizens of Israel would be assured of equality and tolerance. Quite how this would be possible in a context in which groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad command mass support despite declaring war against the Jews (not “Zionists,” note, but “Jews”) has never been explained properly, but perhaps there is no need to. The slogan of “secular democratic state” is just a slogan to mask the fact that the removal of Israel from the map is a goal that can only be achieved through genocide.

That is why, even at the height of the protests, many of those viscerally opposing Netanyahu were nonetheless anxious that Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas or a similar foe would seek a military advantage through Israel’s political crisis. When the Knesset reconvenes next month and this febrile intra-Zionist conflict resumes, that is one reality that will not have changed.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT MK BEN-GVIR THAT THE MEDIA REFUSES TO ADMIT

written by Leah Rosenberg April 4, 2023 2963 views
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Itamar Ben-Gvir is Israel’s Minister of National Security. He truly just wants to protect Israeli citizens – Jews and Arabs alike.
Ben-Gvir and the National Guard Force
The media spreads rumors constantly. They don’t care what fear it might cause. They don’t care that they lie. As long as the media’s agenda is in line with a rumor and lie, they will spread it far and wide. But people need to know the truth. And when it comes to someone like Itamar Ben-Gvir, people don’t know the truth. They claim Ben-Gvir is a right-wing extremist. What is extreme about wanting to protect his people?

Ben-Gvir, as his adviser Yishai Fleisher said, would like to protect the Arab citizens of Israel as well. He is not only trying to protect the Jewish people. Ben-Gvir wants to protect Israel’s citizens against terror and violence.

The Left won’t tell you Ben-Gvir is caring for the Arab citizens of Israel as well. They won’t tell you that he’s not trying to create a private militia. They want to frame Israel’s Minister of National Security as a threat to Israel and the people of Israel. And that is so, so wrong.

But it is time to stop believing rumors. It is time to start paying attention to the facts on the ground.

Israeli citizens deserve to be protected. As Fleisher mentioned, the riots that took placed in mixed Jewish and Arab cities in Israel in 2021 were horrendous. The Jews were not protected. Is it so bad to ensure that something like that never happens again? Itamar Ben-Gvir deserves applause for what he’s trying to do – not condemnation.

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IRAN TIES ITS NOOSE AROUND ISRAEL
written by Micha Gefen April 12, 2023 1937 views
Iran’s proxies who have been strengthening their positions in the past two years around Israel have now begun to act.
Hezbollah & Hamas Leaders Hold TERROR SUMMIT; Iran Ring of Fire Targets Israel | Watchman Newscast
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Hamas sent numerous missiles last week from the Gaza Strip. At the same time a barrage of missiles was fired from Lebanon; the most since the Lebanon war of 2006.

Besides those two fronts, another front opened up – Syria. Six rockets were sent over from Syria into the Golan Heights – no injuries were reported.

With terror attacks rising, and more missiles on their way – people are wondering if Netanyahu is up to the job.

ECONOMY MINISTER: ALL THEY SEEK IS DEATH
written by Micha Gefen April 11, 2023 2084 views
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Economy Minister Nir Barkat was interviewed on CNN today after the Lucy Dee succumbed to her wounds she received when terrorists attacked her and her two daughters Rinat and Maia who were killed in the Jordan Valley terrorist attack.

“Unfortunately, when the mother died just a few hours ago, they [the Dee family] donated the organs to save other people’s lives. And on the other side, the terrorists – do you know what they’re going to get from the Palestinian Authority? A million dollars for the rest of their lives – for killing innocent Jews,” Barkat said.

“That’s the difference between living as Jews, seeking life and making a better life for other people, and the terrorists, who all they seek is death. That’s all they seek.”

The PA rewards terrorists with millions of dollars for killing Jews. If the terrorist is killed the money goes to their families.

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BEREAVED FATHER & HUSBAND TELLS THE WORLD TO STAND FOR GOOD BY STANDING WITH ISRAEL
written by Avi Abelow April 10, 2023 1810 views
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After losing two of his daughters in the terror attack on Friday, Rabbi Leo Dee’s wife, Lucy Dee, passed away from her wounds from that same terror attack. Tomorrow, Lucy will be buried next to her two daughters.

With super-hero strength, tonight, Rabbi Dee held a press conference telling his story and how the world can move forward from his family’s tragedy to make the world a better place.


“Hi, I’m Leo Dee and I’d like to tell you about my idea for tonight – it is an international Dees DAY to be celebrated today, the 10th of April.

First of all, let me introduce myself.

I am the husband of Lucy Dee and the father of five beautiful kids.

That is, until Friday morning at 10:52 AM.

The seven of us set off in two cars from our Home in Efrat, near Jerusalem, on Friday morning to meet my parents, sister and nephews who were driving up in a third car for a holiday in

Tiberias.

Lucy was with Maia and Rina in our white Nissan Micra and I was with Tali and Yehuda in our brown Nissan Micra.

We were ahead of the other cars. At 11:07 I received a call from my sister who had set off with my parents an hour behind us. She told us that there had been an attack on a car on the route up North, she had been diverted – were we OK? Yes I said, but let me call Lucy.

I called Lucy. No answer. I called Maia. No answer. I called Rina. No answer. Then I saw a missed call from Maia 10:52. I hadn’t noticed it ring and had not picked up the phone. The feeling that she called me during the attack and I wasn’t able to speak to her will come back and haunt me for a while.

I checked Google Family link and saw that they were all located at the Hamra junction. At the same moment, however, Tali had seen, posted on Instagram, a photo that a passing car had taken of the wreck where she saw the back of a white car with a bullet hole and suitcases on the back seat with blood on. The suitcases were ours.

I immediately turned round and drove like a lunatic to the Hamra junction. We got there around 12:30. They wouldn’t let us see the car. By this point we knew that two younger girls had been killed by a terrorist with an automatic Kalashnikov rifle (20 bullets) and the older woman had been airlifted to Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem.

I wanted to go to be with Lucy in the hospital but we couldn’t believe that this was our car, our family. So I wanted to see the girls, or at least the car for myself.

After what seemed like a lifetime (it was actually three lifetimes) I convinced them to bring us an ID card that they had rescued from the scene. It was Maia’s.

I went numb. I didn’t cry yet. I was highly rational. I went back to the car and drove another hour and a half to the hospital.

Lucy had had two bullets, one through her brain stem and one lodged at the top of her spine. There was an operation, there was reason for hope. But alas, our family of seven is now a family of four.

Today is the first time that the three festivals of Pesach, Easter and Ramadan have coincided for 30 years.

Pesach and Easter are both festivals about redemption making the world into a better place. Fasting on Ramadan, I have learnt, generates empathy for those in need and thereby is also about making the world into a better place. Making the world into a better place is a GOOD THING.

All world religions believe that we have the power to tell the difference between good and evil so that we can choose to do good. And if we choose good then we make the world into a better place.

I am saddened that recently – maybe over the past 20 years of my life, this innate ability to differentiate between good and evil has been gradually lost from humanity.

That’s why I wish to designate today, the 10th April, as Dees day.

The day we Differentiate between good and evil, right and wrong.

And how do we differentiate between good and evil?

We use our gut feeling. Yes. There’s no better formula. We can’t trust an app. We can’t trust the news – sorry gentlemen.

We can only trust our intuitions.

So how would I like you to celebrate Dees-Day this year?

If you feel that it was wrong to shoot dead at close range three beautiful innocent young ladies in the prime of their lives then please post a picture of you or your spouse or your children with an Israeli flag. Or just post a picture of an Israeli flag and share it on Facebook, Instagram or whatever social media app you use.

If you don’t have an Israeli flag, make one.

I’ll show you how.

For too long we have let a small minority try to convince us there is no right and wrong.

Everything is relative

And it’s cathartic to do this sometimes because when we do wrong we know we have to make up for it.

But if we pretend that there is no such thing as right and wrong, maybe we can get away scot free?

But that attitude to life is like a cocaine addiction. I am told you can take one shot of cocaine and feel good. And likewise when you convince yourself that there is no right and wrong so the terrible thing I did was not terrible after all.

But then you do something worse and need two shots of cocaine to numb the pain which is caused because your soul really knows it did wrong. Before you know it you’re taking 20 shots a day and convincing yourself that any terrorist is justified to kill any innocent civilians because he has HIS cause.

On the other side, my beautiful wife (late wife), Lucy and I have tried to bring up our children with strong moral values

Helping others

Caring for others

Building community

And Baruch Hashem, thank God, I believe that Tali, Keren and Yehuda will do that in their lives and pass those values down to their children and hence play their part in building a better world.

This anonymous terrorist with the Kalashnikov – what did he achieve? A temporary victory? Some marks he can carve into his gun? Where’s his future ? Is he spending the time with his children to teach them decent life values? Does he even have children or is he a child himself? A product of a broken culture that does not differentiate between good and evil, so he cannot see a future for himself. He is taking 20 shots of cocaine (one for each bullet) in order to numb his soul which is telling him: YOU ARE PURE EVIL.

The Bible, the best selling book of all time, teaches us one major lesson: We can all make the choice of good and bad. And not only that, we can all recognize good and bad, through our gut feeling (although as Jews we believe that studying it thoroughly makes us even better at getting that gut feeling

right)

Sometimes we see a news article or a social media post that demonises someone good and idolises someone bad. It gets many likes. So we like it too although in our heart of hearts we sort of feel that it’s not good for us or mankind. That’s a sort of shot of cocaine for us. We overcome the pain of doing something bad by clicking on like which gives a short term (millisecond) high. And so we contribute to the problem because now there are more likes and more people who will share it on.

So let’s reverse this negative loop.

I urge you to post an Israeli flag in a good way (you be the judge) and share it with all your friends and let them share it onwards.

Today is Dees day when we can all differentiate between good and bad by sharing a picture with an Israeli flag.

Let the Israeli flag today send out a message to humanity which is:

We will never accept terror as legitimate

We will never blame the murder on the victims

There is no such thing as moral equivalence between terrorist and victim. The terrorist is ALWAYS BAD.

Imagine children at the beach. I had many years of that.

One girl builds a sand castle, beautiful, skillful, detailed.

A little boy comes along and kicks it over.

An adult who is not the parent of either child tells the mother of the girl who built the sand castle – your daughter is guilty of causing this violence because she built the sand castle in the first place.

Another adult agrees and a third and a fourth.

Isn’t that how the world media treats Israel?

We build, they murder us, they destroy. It’s your fault, since you built it in the first place.

So let’s make today Dees day, remembering Rina, Maia and Lucy Dee and also remembering the beginning of the turnaround in the second world war when the forces of good started to overcome the forces of evil. And the Dee also stands for Differentiate, because on Dees Day we have to differentiate between good and evil.

The Israeli flag is the sign of good, it is the sign of building something worthy.

The most successful modern state, 75 years old and one of the global leaders in clean technology, saving lives all over the world through drip irrigation, agricultural technology, medicine, computer and phone chips, voice mail, Waze, electric car technology, Intel chips, lab grown meat and so much more

Yes, Israel and GOOD is about building.

Evil is about destruction.

Israel is GOOD

Evil is BAD

Today is a day to say yes to building a better future.

And saying no to anyone who just wishes to destroy it with no better plan about how to build it better, stronger.

World media: show me your true colours.

Do you really believe in moral equivalence?

Will you continue to support evil by giving it a voice?

Am I and my family really a threat to world peace? We who teach kindness and love? We who value life over anything else?

Is this anonymous killer really justified? Is he progressing moral values and a future for himself?

Come on! Wake up! Listen to your souls.

Do you really believe it? Or does it just sell advertising space for material goods that none of us really need?

Is it just blaming the builder for making something that someone else can destroy? Like the parents on the beach.

Have we gone mad?

Or can we still rescue this world from not seeing the difference.

The Israeli flag is a sign of building a better future. And we all know that. It represents the best of Jewish culture which is about building a better world.

Dees day is a day of saying: Differentiate and do not destroy.

The time has come to look at Israel in a new light. First we Jews brought you the Bible, now we bring you a country that has so much good it can share with humanity.

Israel is the startup nation, a builder of so much of what is good for humanity.

My plea to the world is: Support Israel’s cause, don’t stand in our way.

Support good over evil.

If we support the good and reject the evil then we can all play our part in building a better world.

So make today Dees day, share a post with an Israeli flag and let the message out:

If we differentiate between good and evil then we can all help make this a better world.

Do it for your soul

Do it for the souls of Maia, Rina and Lucy Dee

Do it for all of humanity

And do it NOW – it has never been more important!

Thank you.”


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SYRIA FIRES ROCKETS AT ISRAEL
written by Micha Gefen April 9, 2023 4333 views
As the Jewish people suffer another terrorist attack with the killing of two daughters of the Dee family from Efrat, Syria ups the stakes by firing missiles into the Golan Heights.
Israel: Rockets launched from Syria | WNT
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Multiple rockets from Syria were fired at Israel’s Golan Heights over the Sabbath. Israel attacked back with artillery into southern Syria.

The IDF said that it carried out artillery strikes in southern Syria, targeting the area from which six rockets were launched at Israel.

“A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck additional targets in Syrian territory, including a military compound of the Fourth Division of the Syrian Armed Forces, military radars systems and artillery posts used by the Syrian Armed Forces,” the IDF statement said.

“This is following the previous IDF strikes earlier tonight in Syrian territory on the launchers from which rockets were fired toward Israeli territory. This strike was carried out by a UAV and in response to the rocket launches earlier tonight (Sunday) toward Israeli territory,” it specified.



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BIDEN’S COUP IN ISRAEL
written by Daniel Greenfield April 9, 2023 2703 views
The puppet masters and puppet regime defeat democracy.

(JNS) In the early days of March, a small crowd of leftists gathered outside the U.S. consulate in Tel Aviv holding up signs reading, “Biden help!” and “Biden, Blinken, Our democracy is sinking.”

A speaker at the rally appealed to Biden to “save us from ourselves.”

The consulate rally was held under the banner of “Defend Israeli Democracy,” which had organized international protests against democratic judicial reform that would have restored checks and balances. International rallies, including one in Berlin which featured women dressed as the “handmaids” from the TV show and signs accusing Israel of “fascism” and being an “apartheid state,” were not speaking to Israelis, but to the international anti-Israel left.

Clips from the Tel Aviv rally were remixed by another of the interchangeable anti-democracy groups, Yalla Tikva, urging Biden to save Israeli democracy. The operation was as slick, with professional videography, editing and branding, as it was lacking a clear, transparent structure.

Protests like these were not so much appealing to Biden as coordinating with the administration.

The anti-democracy rallies by organizations claiming to be fighting for democracy paralleled an unprecedented degree of interference from Washington.

“We don’t want to interfere,” Biden told reporters after Israel had surrendered on reforming the judiciary. “Anyway, we’re not interfering.”

“They cannot continue down this road,” he warned.

On Monday morning, Biden’s ambassador delivered an ultimatum to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ordering him to stop the reforms. Later that day, Netanyahu officially announced a pause on judicial reform.

This followed public statements from every Biden administration official, including Secretary of Defense Austin, warning Israel not to proceed and urging the democratically elected government to turn over the process to its political opponent: leftist figurehead Herzog, who had served as Marc Rich’s lawyer when negotiating a pardon with the Clinton administration.

Why was the Biden administration so obsessed with internal questions such as who picked Israeli Supreme Court justices and whether they could ever be overruled by the legislature?

While the leftist rioters in the streets clamored that they were fighting for democracy, Israel’s Supreme Court is its least democratic institution—and the mobs were demanding that it stay that way. None of the American media outlets or politicians accusing the Israeli government of threatening democracy ever got around to explaining why elected officials selecting justices is a good thing in America and a bad thing in Israel. As Ruth Wisse, the greatest living Jewish academic, pointed out in The Wall Street Journal, some of the same advocates of weakening the United States Supreme Court violently denounced efforts to check the power of Israel’s court.

The Israeli Supreme Court is mostly immune to democratic influences like elections, and is not governed by a constitution, but derives its power from claiming unlimited standing to take on any cases it likes. But to trigger this superpower, it needs nonprofit groups to bring cases to it. These nonprofits are primarily funded by foreign interests, from George Soros, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Tides Center to foreign governments in the European Union and America.

How it works is simple enough. A leftist nonprofit funded by a foreign government sets out to stop a policy of a democratically elected government. Even though it is in no way affected by said policy, it sues anyway. And even though it lacks any standing, the Supreme Court takes the case anyway.

The actual case, however, was really brought by Soros or the European Union or Washington, D.C. The Israeli Supreme Court acts as a rubber stamp for rule by foreign governments through leftist groups.

While a lot of the online protest groups conducting anti-democracy rallies were unknown, the larger Israeli rallies were led by the Movement for Quality Government. MQG is a serial plaintiff which repeatedly brings cases to the Supreme Court. In 2020, MQG hired a D.C. law firm to investigate Netanyahu. That same year, MQG began getting money from the State Department.

State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel claimed that this was false because MQG “received a modest grant from the State Department that was initiated during the previous administration” meant to promote civics in schools.

“Any notion that we are propping up or supporting these protests or the initiators of them is completely and demonstrably false,” Patel fumed.

But money is fungible and the State Department was well aware that MQG’s primary field of activity was lawfare. The plague of leftist nonprofits funded by foreign governments is an old problem that predates this administration. And touching it is the real red line.

In 2016, there was outrage when the Israeli legislature passed a law requiring nonprofits to disclose foreign funding. Even though the government bureaucracy refused to enforce the law, it nonetheless resulted in MGQ disclosing its State Department funding.

The State Department had claimed then that asking nonprofits to reveal foreign funding would “have a chilling effect on the activities that these worthwhile organizations are trying to do.”

Examples of such worthwhile activities included the State Department funding a previous protest campaign against Netanyahu in 2015 using a “peacebuilding” nonprofit named One Voice.

In 2021, Israel cracked down on six nonprofits tied to terrorist organizations. The State Department warned, “We will be engaging our Israeli partners for more information regarding the basis for the designation. We believe respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and a strong civil society are critically important to responsible and responsive governance.”

The pattern is not difficult to spot.

The Biden administration, the European Union and other leftist foreign governments use nonprofits and the legal system to control Israeli policy. When those tools of control are threatened, they step in.

The Obama and Biden administrations fumed when Israel began forcing nonprofits to follow the law, but judicial reform was a line in the sand. Had the judicial reform legislation passed, democracy would have come to Israel. And a bunch of leftist governments would have lost their ability to use their puppets to overrule the will of the people. That was why they did everything they could to stop it.

What the media portrayed as organic protests were nothing of the kind. They were often backed and organized by tech companies. Some of those same companies, to protest judicial reform, announced that they were pulling their money out of Israel and sending it to SVB. The collapse of the bank, closely associated with leftist interests in the United States, was only a brief inconvenience, since the Biden administration rushed to bail out its depositors.

Israeli startups draw on investments from American companies and investors, many of them close to the Biden administration. The SVB connection, a clearinghouse for woke capital, just spelled out the obvious. The coup against democracy was backed by foreign interests and implemented by the billionaires, who control much of the Israeli media, and leftist activists who are employed by nonprofits funded by foreign governments and foundations.

Political consultants rushed to brand the coup a “democracy” movement, even though there’s nothing less democratic than protecting an undemocratic institution from democratic change.

The Biden administration, which had been in on it all along, pushed for a “compromise” from Marc Rich’s former lawyer that would keep the left in power even while denying what it was doing.

Prime Minister Netanyahu backed down, as he often has, but the confrontation was revealing because the puppet masters were forced to show their hand. American Jews were largely fooled by the media’s propaganda campaign, but Israelis saw all too clearly who the activists and, more importantly, the Supreme Court really works for.

The Israeli left has consistently lost elections while clinging to power through undemocratic institutions like the Supreme Court and fake third parties. It’s fighting a war on democracy that it’s bound to lose. The “handmaids” marching in Berlin and the radicals holding up posters accusing Israel of fascism in Hitler’s city have shown Israelis what they really are.

The greatest threat to democracy in Israel has always come from the left. What was once a domestic oligarchy has evolved into a puppet regime. And the Israeli Zionists have learned that they can expose the puppet masters by pulling on the puppets and seeing who comes for them.

This is an edited version of an article first published by FrontPage Magazine.

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WHAT’S REALLY HAPPENING IN ISRAEL
written by Jerome Marcus April 10, 2023 1299 views
The protests have nothing to do with judicial reform and everything to do with undoing the results of the last election.

(JNS) When Israeli judicial reform was proposed in January, the left protested, demanding that the legislative process stop so negotiations could take place. It was illegitimate, said the protesters, for the parties who won a majority of the Knesset to use their control to pass a law that didn’t have broad support.

Now the legislative process has been stopped at the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Just as the protesters demanded, teams have been appointed and talks scheduled at the president’s residence over the coming weeks.

But the protests have not stopped. What they have done, however, is reveal what they’re really about: Not judicial reform, but undoing the last election.

In Israel, there have been no claims that the last election was tainted by fraud or manipulated by the Russians. The left’s claim is that the people who won the election are bad and should not have won.

Why? Listen to their own words.

In Ashdod, one of the protest leaders—Eliad Shraga, chairman of the innocently named Movement for Quality Government—explained: “We are the light, and Netanyahu and his partners are the darkness. We are democracy and they are dictatorship. We are love and they are hate!”

“Netanyahu, like a man who runs from the truth, knows deep inside that he is not fit to be the prime minister. He knows he doesn’t reach the minimum ethical bar to be prime minister. He knows he’s corrupt, he knows he’s ethically rotten and he knows he doesn’t lead by example,” Shraga proclaimed.

The reason for the protests, Shraga honestly stated, is that the officeholders chosen by “the people” are, in the opinion of the protesters, bad. The protests are being held to throw those elected officials out of office by making it impossible for them to govern the country.

The protesters have never been opposed to any specific legislative proposal. Yair Lapid and Gideon Sa’ar, like many other members of the current opposition, are on record supporting judicial reform. What they are opposed to is the results of the last election. They are convinced that the people who won should not have won, and that the voters who chose these people have no right to do so. Because democracy.

In this, they have an unqualified ally in the Supreme Court, which disqualified Aryeh Deri from serving as a government minister. Deri had been put in power because his party won 400,000 votes. The Court disqualified him on the simple and honestly stated grounds that those votes had been cast unreasonably. It was unreasonable, said the Court, for Deri to be a government minister. So, they ordered his removal from the cabinet.

The protests have tainted even the IDF, encouraging refusals to serve that are explicitly based on the refusers’ belief that the people elected simply should not have won. The soldiers are being encouraged to think they can refuse to serve until that bad choice has been undone. Ehud Barak said exactly this at a Chatham House talk last week. It doesn’t take a Henry Kissinger to figure out that this is a recipe for self-destruction in very short order.

Over the last 2,000 years, the Jewish people have not much experience in governing themselves, and it shows. The people driving events are unembarrassed about saying out loud what they really think. Though they cry “democracy,” their protests are intended to disenfranchise those pesky ignoramuses who vote unreasonably. People who genuinely believe, and are arrogant enough to say, “we are the light” are simply refusing to allow a government to operate if it’s chosen by anybody else.

This is what’s happening in Israel and why it’s happening. Zman lakum, Jewish people. Time to wake up.


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REPLACE THE MUSLIM AUTHORITY ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT
written by Ezequiel Doiny April 9, 2023 1450 views
On April 7, 2023 Arutz 7 reported “Footage shows Muslim rioters gathering stones after morning prayers, throwing them towards gate linking to the Western Wall Plaza.”

On April 4, 2023 Arutz 7 reported “Violent clashes broke out at Al-Aqsa Mosque overnight Tuesday, during an attempt by police officers to evacuate Muslim worshipers who were holed up in the mosque…The Israel Police said that clashes broke out between police forces and dozens of young people who barricaded themselves in Al-Aqsa Mosque and tried to disturb the order. “After attempts to negotiate to remove the worshipers, the forces were forced to enter the compound,” the police said, adding that rocks were thrown at the forces and fireworks were set off, and that dozens of suspects were arrested.

“Ibrahim Al-Dabbas, a Muslim activist in Jerusalem, told Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV that Israel had committed a “crime” when it acted violently against Muslims at Al-Aqsa Mosque. Al-Dabbas called for Palestinian Arab aid from all sources, saying that Israel is trying to change the reality in the mosque. “The fascist Zionist government is taking advantage of the Jewish holidays to attack the Al-Aqsa Mosque” and “drag the region into a religious war,” he charged.

“The Islamic Jihad terrorist organization said that it is closely monitoring what is happening at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Muslim worshipers who were in the mosque called on the Al-Qassam Brigades to launch rockets towards Israel in response to the incident.

” Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh commented on the clashes on the Temple Mount and said that they were an “unprecedented crime” and that there would be “consequences”.

” In late March, the Israel Police evacuated hundreds of worshipers who had barricaded themselves on the Temple Mount after the conclusion of prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and planned to sleep in the compound in order to disrupt public order during the morning hours…

…The police said that the worshipers barricaded themselves in the compound in complete contradiction to an agreement with the Waqf and the rules of the place…”

On April 5, 2023 Arutz 7 reported

“For the second night in a row, violent clashes broke out on the Temple Mount on Wednesday night, as worshipers barricaded themselves inside Al-Aqsa Mosque and police forces operated to evacuate them. The worshipers shouted, “Al-Aqsa will be redeemed in spirit and blood”. According to Palestinian Arab reports, at least 11 people were arrested. Footage posted online showed some of the worshipers fleeing the Temple Mount in large numbers.

“The Israel Police commented on the clashes with worshipers and said that “dozens of law-breaking youths, some of them masked, brought fireworks and rocks into the mosque with the aim of disrupting the order at the site – while desecrating the mosque.”

“The police further stated that “at a certain point they tried again to close the doors of the mosque and prevent the worshipers from leaving, with the aim of barricading themselves inside. The police forces prevented the lawbreakers from closing the doors and barricading themselves, and helped the worshipers leave the mosque. In the meantime, the lawbreakers began shouting words of incitement, shooting fireworks, and throwing objects towards the police officers who were operating at the scene.”

On April 5 the Jewish holiday of Passover starts and thousands of Jewish worshippers pray in the Western Wall next to Temple Mount. The Israeli police has to protect Jewish worshipers praying in the Western Wall from those trying to disrupt public order.
In the past that Muslim rioters disrupted Jewish prayer at the Western Wall throwing stones there, if it wasn’t for the Israeli police this type of incident would have occured more often. In 2020 the Kotel.org reported “

Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites, Rabbi Shmuel Rabbinowitz stated, ” I condemn this incident and call for a stop to the incitement Muslim rioters throwing stones from the Temple Mount towards the Women’s Section of the Western Wall, taking advantage of the days of Ramadan to damage the delicate fabric of the Old City. This rare, yet dangerous occurence was taken care of immediately by the Israel Police who stopped the rioters.”

The Waqf, a Jordanian-appointed council, oversees Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem and do not help to prevent the violent riots in Temple Mount. In May 1, 2022 Israel Hayom reported “

Members of the Islamic Waqf trust that manages the Al-Aqsa mosque enjoy a special status. They are employed by the Jordanians and therefore are supposed to safeguard the kingdom’s interest of maintaining the monarchy’s custodianship status there. However, it’s doubtful that Waqf officials, who receive their salaries from Amman, are trying particularly hard to solidify Jordan’s unique role there.

“The recent events at the site indicate that Waqf officials haven’t gone out of their way to prevent the violent riots and the efforts by Hamas, Hizb ut-Tahrir, and other Palestinian elements to seize control of Al-Aqsa. Even if Waqf officials did occasionally attempt to temper the Palestinian demonstrators at the site, it was only for show.

“No Waqf officials have stood up against the youngsters carrying Hamas flags, and it doesn’t appear that any of them are willing to risk their lives for the Jordanian king. A Waqf shift manager is always on duty and responsible for what happens at the Temple mount. The Waqf security guards he manages patrol the area with small walkie-talkies and cell phones. These are mostly used to document what they call “the invasions and provocations” of Jewish visitors. The rioting by Palestinian youth is less of an interest to them.

“An official familiar with the details of the situation at the holy site said Waqf officials are not graduates of any type of course that trains them for the job, and that their mission has diminished over the years to “monitoring non-Muslims at the Temple Mount.”

” …There are frequent reports of Waqf officials who are arrested and expelled from the Temple Mount for varying periods of time, on charges of obstructing police officers or disturbing the public order at the site.

“They focus on visits by Jews, they are very active in that regard,” said another official. “We haven’t seen them prevent provocations by Hamas on the Temple Mount. This is one of the problems, that they are perceived as identifying more with the youngsters protesting at Al-Aqsa than with the Waqf.”

“All Waqf appointments are vetted by the Jordanian intelligence services, but the vast majority of Waqf officials are not Jordanians, but rather locals who reside in east Jerusalem…

“According to Hillel Frisch, a professor of political studies and Middle East studies at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan and an expert on the Arab world at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, the Waqf in most Arab states “are Muslim Brotherhood adherents. They are co-opted by the state and closely monitored. Here, the situation is much more complicated and hence Jordanian custodianship much more problematic.”

“…According to Frisch, “Just as no other country in the world compromises its sovereignty in its capital, so should Israel have maintained its sovereignty over the Temple Mount, the most important site in its capital [when it liberated it in 1967]. Conceding to Jordanian control over the Temple Mount, when the real powers behind the scenes are the PA and Hamas, has compromised this sovereignty evermore to the detriment of the security of Jerusalem’s citizens, both Jews and Arabs.”
“He noted that “most Arabs want to pray in peace on the Temple Mount just like the Jews, but the Waqf, presumably under Jordanian control but in reality manned by Hamas adherents, turn the Temple Mount into an arena of increasing violence.”

The incidents in Temple Mount would not be possible without complicity of the Jordanian appointed Waqf. Since the Jordanian appointed Waqf does not prevent violence against the Jews, he should be replaced by an Israeli Arab Iman.

On December 15, 2021 Arutz 7 reported “Israeli Arab organization bridges the gaps between Jews and Arabs in Israel: Yoseph Haddad, CEO of Together – Vouch For Each Other, is on a mission to connect Israeli Arabs to Israeli society…Haddad explains that while he “could be one of a kind because I speak out loud, I’m very far from being the only one.” “There are a lot of people in our society like me. The difference is that they’re silent and there is a reason why. There’s a lot of hatred from both sides, the extremist side. Keep in mind, they are minorities and not majorities, but they are very loud, and that’s why a lot of the Israeli Arabs who feel the same way, want to be an integral part of Israeli society, yet they don’t take action because of those extreme voices.” He explains: “It’s very simple. On the Arab side they would say because I’m speaking and I’m revealing that the absolute majority of the Jewish community are not racist, and in fact they want the Israeli Arab society to be an important and integral part of the Israeli society, that’s problematic for them…”

Israel should take the administration of Al Aqsa from the anti-Israel Waqf and give it to the pro-Israel Israeli Arab organization “Together”. Israeli Arabs like Haddad have the same right to pray in Al Aqsa as Abbas.

If Haddad is sincere about “trying to bridge the gaps between Jews and Arabs in Israel” he must acknowledge the Jewish connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. The Temple Mount is to Judaism as Mecca is to Islam. Jews around the World face Temple Mount when they pray, Muslims face Mecca even when in or around Temple Mount.
Jews were not allowed to pray in the Western Wall during the Jordanian occupation of the site but Jews allow Muslims pray at Al Aqsa during Israeli rule.
Despite the religious freedom provided by Israel the Jordanian Waqf uses the administrative control of the site to incite against the Jewish State.
On May 11, 2021 the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs reported “…it is essential to note that the violence in Jerusalem was not spontaneous. It was clearly pre-planned. Firebombs were produced by Palestinian organizations, mounds of rocks and projectiles were stored in the mosques on the Temple Mount, along with fireworks that were used as weapons. This was mainly the work of Hamas, but it was prompted by other Middle East players, as well…Jordan, unfortunately, can be identified as one of the cooks stirring the pot…King Abdullah and Mahmoud Abbas have become allies, and they hope that the events of Jerusalem will undermine the Abraham Accord agreements between Israel and other Arab countries…”

On July 17, 2017 I wrote in Arutz 7 about the need to replace the Jordanian Wakf with an Israeli-Arab Imam “In 1967, after Israel won the Six Day War and reunited Jerusalem, Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan announced to the Jordanian-appointed Wakf that they would be allowed to continue to administer the Al Aqsa compound.

Nadav Shragai reported in the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs “…Dayan decided to leave the mount and its management in the hands of the Muslim Wakf, while at the same time insisting that Jews would be able to visit it (but not pray at it!) without restriction. Dayan thought, and years later even committed the thought to writing, that since for Muslims the mount is a ‘Muslim prayer mosque’ while for Jews it is no more than “a historical site of commemoration of the past…one should not hinder the Arabs from behaving there as they now do.” The Israeli defense minister believed that Islam must be allowed to express its religious sovereignty – as opposed to national sovereignty – over the Temple Mount; that the Arab-Israeli conflict must be kept on the territorial-national level; and that the potential for a conflict between the Jewish religion and the Muslim religion must be removed. In granting Jews the right to visit the mount, Dayan sought to placate the Jewish demands for worship and sovereignty there. In giving religious sovereignty over the mount to the Muslims, he believed he was defusing the site as a center of Palestinian nationalism…”

Despite Israel’s generous decision to allow the Jordaniana-appointed Wakf to administer the Temple Mount so as to avoid religious animosity, Jordan and the Wakf have repeatedly used the control of the Temple Mount to instigate riots against Israel. For Islamists praying in Al Aqsa is more fun than in Mecca because they enjoy throwing stones at the Israeli police and at the Jews praying next door at the Western Wall.

On October 26, 2016 UNESCO adopted a Jordanian controversial resolution on Jerusalem’s Holy Sites which deletes Jewish ties to the sites. The resolution, submitted by Jordan, uses exclusively Arabic terms to describe Temple Mount, deliberately deleting the Jewish connection to the site of the Jewish Temples

On December 23, 2016 Obama did not veto UNSC 2334 declaring that both the Temple Mount and the Western Wall are in “occupied Palestinian territory”. UNSC 2334, which violates the Oslo Accords, was lauded by Jordan’s King Abdullah II.

Dayan’s decision to leave the administration of the mount in the hands of the Jordanian appointed Muslim Waqf was his belief that “Islam must be allowed to express its religious sovereignty – as opposed to national sovereignty – over the mount” That belief has backfired Since now, with Jordan’s approval, the UNSC has declared that the Temple Mount and the Western Wall are in “occupied Palestinian land,” Dayan’s formula calling for Israeli sovereignty over the site must be revised.

Why allow Jordan, a country that is hostile to Israel, and constantly attacks Israel in the UN, despite signing a peace treaty with the Jewish State, to have control over the Wakf appointment? Dayan’s intention that “Islam must be allowed to express its religious sovereignty – as opposed to national sovereignty – over the mount” could be guaranteed just as well or better if an Imam were appointed by Israeli Arabs who are, on the whole, less hostile to Israel than the Jordanian Wakf.

Israeli Arabs are professors, engineers, judges and doctors. Many Israeli Arabs are successful professionals in Israel and prefer to live in Israel rather than in the corrupt Palestinian Authority.

About 20% of the Israeli population (about 1.8 million) is Arab . Israeli Arabs know that they enjoy a better standard of living in Israel than they would under Palestinian rule. Israeli Arab income is three times larger than that of the average Palestinian Authority Arab nd most of the Israeli Arabs would not change their Israeli citizenship for a Palestinian one if such citizenship would exist.

In 2014 the residents of the Arab Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm, bordering on the ‘West Bank’, were asked to vote if they wanted their city to continue being part of Israel under a peace agreement or if they wanted to be ruled by the Palestinian Authority. They chose to remain in Israel because they enjoyed the benefits of Israeli citizenship.

There are more Arabs living in Israel than in the ‘West Bank,’ Israeli Arabs have the same right to pray in Al Aqsa as does Abbas. Israeli Arabs who enjoy the benefits of Israeli universities, hospitals and high tech businesses should also support Israeli sovereignty over Al Aqsa where Muslims enjoy the same freedom of religion as they do in any other of the thousands of mosques in Israel.

Jordan or the Palestinian Authority should have no input on control of Al Aqsa . An association of Israeli Arabs who benefit from the privileges of Israeli citizenship should appoint an Imam to run the Al Aqsa mosque in place of the anti-Israel Waqf. Israeli Arabs should be given a choice: either replace the Waqf with an Israel-friendly Imam or risk the benefits of their Israeli citizenship.

Why should Israeli Arabs continue enjoying the benefits of living in Israel while supporting a Waqf that calls for Israel’s destruction?”

There are more Muslims living in Israel than in the ‘West Bank,’ Israeli Arabs have the same right to pray in Al Aqsa as Palestinian Arabs. Replace the anti-Israel Jordanian Waqf with an Israeli Arab Iman that respects Israeli sovereignty.

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BIBI REFUSES TO SEND WEAPONS TO UKRAINE
written by Micha Gefen January 2, 2023 12464 views
Ukraine’s President Zelensky asked Prime Minister Netanyahu for weapons in an exchange for support against a UN resolution sending Israel to the world court. Bibi refused.
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Netanyahu’s refusal caused Ukraine to abstain instead of voting against. However, Netanyahu’s “no” sent signals to Putin that Israel is willing to remain neutral in the current NATO-Russia war being played out in Ukraine.

The reasons for Bibi’s pushback against Ukraine is connected to Putin’s cover for Iranian expansion into Syria and Lebanon. Bibi does not need Russia to help Iran anymore than they already are. Rebuffing Zelensky also sends a message to the USA, that Israel is staying neutral when it comes to Ukraine.

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IDF calls up reserves in preparation for possible large-scale military op
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Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi on Friday ordered the call-up of reserve troops amid an explosion of terror emanating from Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria.

Halevi said the military would enhance its readiness to conduct aerial-related operations, after a barrage of rockets was fired over the past 24 hours from southern Lebanon and Gaza, and following a deadly Palestinian shooting attack in the Jordan Valley.

The Hamas terrorist group on Thursday afternoon fired 34 rockets from southern Lebanon towards northern Israel, in the biggest attack emanating from the Hezbollah-controlled country since the 2006 war.

According to the IDF, at least five of the projectiles struck within Israel. Another 25 were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system, and the remaining four were still being investigated.

Overnight Thursday, terrorists in Hamas-ruled Gaza launched 44 projectiles, including rockets and anti-aircraft missiles, towards southern Israel, setting off sirens in Sderot, Nir Am, Mefalsim, Gavim, Nachal Oz, Alumim and Ibim.

One rocket struck a populated area in Sderot and eight were intercepted by Iron Dome. Fourteen rockets hit open areas inside Israel, nine fell short in Gaza and a dozen were fired in the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, said the military.

The rocket that hit Sderot damaged a home but caused no injuries.

In response, Israel Air Force jets hit more than 10 Hamas targets in the Palestinian enclave, including weapons manufacturing sites and attack tunnels. The military also struck Hamas assets in southern Lebanon.

“The state of Lebanon is considered responsible for everything that happens in its territory, including the firing of rockets by Hamas. We will not allow Hamas to operate from Lebanon,” said IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari on Friday morning.

“The IDF is prepared to carry out its missions—the offensive activity tonight in more than one arena is a clear indication of this. Israeli residents in the north and south constitute a strong civilian home front. We are entrusted with protecting them and their resilience allows us to continue to fulfill our duties,” he added.

On Friday, two Israeli sisters were killed and their mother was critically wounded in a Palestinian shooting attack in the Jordan Valley.

The attack took place on the Route 57 highway near the Hamra Junction, the IDF said.

According to an initial probe, terrorists opened fire on a passing vehicle, causing it to crash into the road’s shoulder. The terrorists then approached the car and riddled it with nearly two dozen bullets.

Magen David Adom emergency medical personnel pronounced two sisters in their 20s dead on the scene. The other victim, a woman in her 40s, was evacuated by helicopter to Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem.

Israeli troops launched a manhunt for the terrorists.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was slated to hold a security assessment Friday afternoon.

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CLEARLY, THE US IS THE AGGRESSOR IN THE UKRAINE WAR
written by Ted Belman April 4, 2023 1660 views
On Dec 21, 2021, I co-authored with Alexander Markovsky, a friend of mine, Ukraine, NATO, and the Most Fateful Error of American Policy, though Markovsky dominated the input.

“After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, NATO, in a violation of the verbal agreement between Secretary of State James Baker and Russian Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, launched a massive expansion to the east.

“This expansion can be seen from Moscow only as a strategy to encircle Russia and turn its neighbors into hostile countries. As long as Russia was economically and military weak, the process proceeded unabated. NATO has grown from 16 countries before the reunification of Germany, to 28 today.”

Our next article was on January 14, 2022, If USA and Russia are Implacable Foes, all Lines of Inquiry Lead to NATO.

“In 1961, as a young academic Henry Kissinger had an opportunity to interview President Harry Truman. He asked the President what in his presidency had made him most proud. Truman replied, “That we totally defeated our enemies and then brought them back to the community of nations.”

“Unfortunately, the U.S. chose not to emulate Truman’s achievement. With the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, the military threat to Western Europe had ended, but NATO alliance did not disband itself. Mission accomplished was not good news for the military alliance — it needed new enemies and a new mission for self-preservation.

“Indeed, NATO had no difficulty adjusting to the emerging world order. A new enemy was invented — Russia was to be treated as a descendant of the “evil empire.” The concept of an alliance was quietly converted into a doctrine of collective security. The difference is that while alliances are aimed at a specific threat and define the obligation of each partner in case of belligerency, collective security is an ambiguous concept that defines no specific threat and is designed to resist any aggression anywhere in the world. In this new mission NATO equated peace and security with expanding democratic gains and proliferation of American values.”

“After the restoration of the economy and years of heavy investment into the modernization of its armed forces, Russia feels strong enough to confront what she considers as a serious threat to her security. […]

“A glance at the map of Europe shows that if Ukraine and Georgia became members of NATO, Russia would be almost entirely flanked by NATO on its European border.

“This irrevocable fact of geography forced Putin to demand from America a security guarantee that Ukraine and Georgia would never be accepted into NATO. To demonstrate that he meant business, he assembled a sizeable military force in the proximity to the Ukrainian border.

“Moscow caught Western allies at the moment of maximum weakness. The geopolitical environment has dramatically changed in Russia’s favor. European Union is in a state of economic weakness and political uncertainty. Obsessed with Global Warming or Cooling or a vague Climate Change it has shut down its nuclear and coal fired power plants and is depended on Russian gas to keep its industries running and homes warmed.

“European members of NATO have degraded their military capabilities and are totally dependent on the U.S. for their defense. “

On Feb 26, 2022, I wrote The pot is calling the kettle, black, in which I accused the US of being the bad guy, not the Russians. I listed all the reasons for doing so beginning with:

“After the fall of the USSR, the US invaded Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq , and Libya. She overthrew Mubarak, the long standing ruler of Egypt and installed its own regime and attempted to do the same with Syria. She expanded NATO eastward after promising not to do so. She handcuffed Israel, thereby violating its sovereignty, and demanded she cease settlement construction and back the two-state solution.”

In the first article recited, we wrote:

“He (Putin) made it perfectly clear that he would not allow Ukraine to join NATO. To resolve the issue peacefully, he suggested to President Biden that the U.S. would offer Russia a guarantee that Ukraine would not be admitted to the NATO military alliance. But NATO’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, rejected the idea and affirmed a NATO right to bring more countries into the alliance. Unless the situation changes, Moscow will have no choice but to invade Ukraine.

“There is little risk for Moscow in doing such an invasion, either militarily, politically, or economically.”

Today we see how right we were. Russia is winning the war, Putin remains very popular and Russia has overcome the worst sanctions ever.

All this is confirmed by

John Mearsheimer | EVERYTHING the UNITED STATES touches turns to ASH

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TERROR WAR: 2 SISTERS MURDERED BY JIHADISTS, THEIR MOTHER REMAINS IN CRITICAL CONDITION
written by Micha Gefen April 7, 2023 2500 views
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After 36 hours of rocket attacks from both Gaza and Lebanon, two sisters in their 20s traveling with their mother were murdered by arab terrorists in the Jordan River Valley.

The sisters in their 20s were traveling with their mother when terrorists opened fired on their vehicle causing it to go off the road. The attackers then went up to the car and shot into it – killing the two sisters and critically wounding the mother who had to be evacuated by helicopter to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.

Terrorists Open A New Front
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After the attacks from Gaza, terrorists decided to open a second front from Lebanon in the North – firing 34 rockets in 30 minutes during the first day of Pesach, marking the most rockets fired at Israel from Lebanon since the 2006 war.

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The Jewish People are the Chosen People" - What Does that Mean?
What a fascinating conversation with Rabbi Neil Winkler, a Rabbi I have had the privilege of knowing and learning from most of my life. Rabbi Winkler writes a weekly Torah column in the Orthodox Union’s Israel Center’s Torah Tidbits. I reached out to him after one of his thought-provoking articles about the Jewish people being the Chosen People.

There is so much depth to understanding how the Jewish people are the chosen people. You do not want to miss this – Rabbi Winkler breaking it all down for us all.
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WATCH: MAGA PAGE RELEASES MUST-SEE VIDEO SUPPORTING TRUMP
written by Phil Schneider April 5, 2023 440 views
Donald Trump scares so many of his opposition because he is such a fearless fighter. He didn’t change one iota between the time he was a nominee and the time he became President. He hasn’t changed much either since he left office.
‘Keep fighting Mr President’: MAGA page releases video for Trump
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He used his bully pulpit in one of his first Prseidential press conferences to debase and discredit CNN, just as he did when he was a nominee. He doesn’t think what is politically correct or politically expedient and then say it. He just says what he thinks is right and good for the nation. That is probably the secret sauce that has brought out so many people to vote for Donald Trump that had never voted before.

Turmp is most certainly running on 2024. But despite being the frontrunner in the Republican Party, he still has quite a battle. Other nominees will go after Trump mercilessly. That will probably not be the hard part for Trump. He knows how to handle himself well on the debate stage.

The challenge will come when he loses his first primary and the momentum swings to one of his opponents. Will Trump the candidate regroup and battle back, or once again claim that the elections are rigged against him. If he takes the second path, that may doom his chances. But if he adjusts his message, he indeed may be in the general election and have a good chance to become President again in 2024.


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ISRAEL EXPERIENCING BLM/ANTIFA MOMENT
written by Avi Abelow March 27, 2023 2123 views

Last night the heads of the Israeli police in Tel Aviv marched and led the anti-democracy protestors on the main highway in Tel Aviv. Instead of stopping them and arresting them, they led them.

Now heads of Universities, Hospital directors and workers unions are planning on shutting down the country unless the law to neuter the veto power of Supreme Court judges to choose other Supreme Court judges is stopped.

I want everyone to take a moment and imagine that all these anarchist protests aimed at literally bringing down the country, were led by right-wingers or the religious. What would happen?

Well, we don’t have to imagine. Back in 2005 the right/religious protested in the streets to stop the disasterous Gaza disengagement/expulsion plan.

The legal establishment announced that anyone who blocks a road is considered treasonous according to the law. They arrested young 13 year-old teenagers and threw them into jail. They called for teenagers to be re-educated. They stopped buses on the roads so that they wouldn’t even succeed in getting to the protests. They arrested the people who planned the efforts to block roads and locked them up for months until after the Gaza expulsion was finished. The media made out the protestors and the protest movement to be treasonous.

Now look at the way the anarchist left is coddled by the legal establishment in bringing down the country, supported by top police officials, and emboldened by the media reporting.

Any hypocrisy between the two protest movements?

Today, more than ever, more people understand that today’s protest movement has nothing to do with the judicial reform, which could be easily debated and negotiated democratically in Knesset committee hearings. It has everything to do with a power struggle to bring down this first-ever historic, right-wing government intent on making the necessary changes to end this blatant anti-democratic leftist stranglehold on Israel.

The leaders of the left are literally willing to destroy our country to not lose power. Destroy the economy, destroy the army to no longer serve and not even listen to orders to attack Iran, and even destroy civil society by shutting down hospitals!

Welcome to the anti-democratic political left, and their literal terror tactics, that too many right-wing and center oriented Jews have been brainwashed by their campaign of utter lies and misinformation to support.

What we are really experiencing is an anti-democratic leftist coup with literal terror. Just the media is not reporting it properly because they are in on it.

Don’t worry. Even if Bibi pauses the reform, the true left has exposed their absolute anti-democratic face for all of Israel to see in every industry that runs the country.
Now there will be more support than ever to replace them. It’s a slow process, but it will happen.
The anti-Jewish political left leadership has used its doomsday weapon and everyone knows it. Appeasing it now will not end their terror campaign, but it will give the right the understanding that they can never appease it again. The anti-Jewish left leadership won’t be able to stop the process to replace them.

It is all good people. Most Jews part of the protests are not a part of this. They are just brainwashed by the fear campaign of lies and misinformation, so they joined. We will get through this. Painful. But we will get through it.

This is a wake up process and it is necessary. While things now look downright scary, the good times are coming.

What Good are Elections?
One thing Israelis are learning today is that elections are meaningless when the right wins. Plenty of people are today questioning whether to vote ever again. As we are seeing that the political left will use any means necessary, even the self-destruction of a country and anarchy to stop the right, despite election results.

Obviously, I believe we have to keep on voting until we have the right leadership and timing to make the necessary changes and overcome the absolute duplicity and hypocrisy of the political left. That day will come. Hopefully very soon.

Understand, we in Israel are today experiencing our BLM and Antifa movement.

The hypocrisy of the political left screams to high heavens, and people believe their lies. I don’t blame them, as that’s what they are being told in the media day in and day out. Why shouldn’t people believe the lies?

The media has been screaming about “religious coercion” for decades as the the anti-Jewish legal system has been coercing an anti-Jewish progressive agenda on the country. And that’s just one example. The meme below highlights the absolute hypocrisy and brilliance of the political left.

Believe it or not, this is a similar conflict and wake-up process that is taking place across the anti-religious progressive Western world.

We are all in this together. And we will win, even though it looks hopeless and is painful.
How do I know we will win? Because man can’t beat the Almighty Above, no matter how destructive, deceitful and successful they are at any given moment ))

Hold on to your faith and to the truth, while pushing away the blatant lying campaigns of the media.
The voices of true unity and goodness will win!

Am Yisrael Chai!!!

https://www.israelunwired.com/a-reichstag-fire-in-jerusalem/?
A “REICHSTAG FIRE” IN JERUSALEM?
written by Ezequiel Doiny April 4, 2023 1054 views
How would the Israeli police react if the right in Israel used the same tactics as the left? The left shut down highways, airports and medical services, what would happen if the right did the same to demand the application of sovereignty?

This is what the Israeli deep State would do if the right protested like the left:

1. They would infiltrate the protests, send left-wing agents pretending to be right-wing to act violently to make the right-wing peaceful protest look violent.

2. They will mass arrest protesters and falsely accuse them of violence.
Sounds familiar?
The left is following the same script they used successfully in the US and Brazil.
In a video interview with the Epoch Times Dennis Prager explained about Jan 6 “We’re living in a gigantic lie that is reminiscent of the Reichstag fire”.


The Gateway Pundit reported “20 CONFIRMED INCIDENTS AND OPERATIONS: The DOZENS of Feds, FBI Agents and State Operatives Who Infiltrated the Trump Crowds on January 6th at the US Capitol and Led the Protests…”

What the deep State did to Trump supporters in January 6 and to Bolsonaro supporters in Brazil is what will happen next in Israel, it is exactly the same script. They are waiting for the right to protest then they will invent a “Reichstag fire” in Jerusalem to frame Netanyahu’s supporters.

The Israeli Justice System and the Police react very differently when the right and the left protest.

On April 3, 2023 Arutz 7 reported “Transportation Minister Miri Regev claims the leftists protesting against the judicial reform are receiving preferential treatment from the police…On the left-wing demonstrations against the reform, she said, “The police are treating the anarchists from the left as though they are privileged. They should have prevented the blocking of the roads and their incitement, and dealt with those thugs in a strict manner, as is done with other protesters who break the law. The preferential treatment they received proves the need for a judicial reform.”

On March 28, 2023 Jonathan Tobin wrote in Arutz 7 “After months of increasingly strident mass protests against his government’s plans to reform Israel’s out-of-control and highly partisan judicial system, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have given in to the pressure. He said he was going to be “delaying judicial reform to give real dialogue a chance.” But it’s highly doubtful that this will merely be a timeout that will help his supporters regroup and enable opponents to calm down and accept a compromise on the issue. On the contrary, Netanyahu is waving the white flag on judicial reform—and everyone knows it.”

Jack Engelhart wrote “…they trample Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, shut down highways, airports and medical services. They bolt embassies to take their cause worldwide…”

On March 20, 2023 Arutz 7 reported “A haredi couple was driving through Tel Aviv on Sunday when protesters surrounded their car and severely beat the husband. The police have yet to contact the couple, and the incident is being ignored in mainstream media.”

Adina Kutnicki wrote “This national tear-down is ongoing – despite the fact that PM Netanyahu, a “serial accommodator“, caved to the dictates of “mob rule”: ceasing the mandated judicial overhaul, let the electoral wishes of the majority Jewish public be damned!”
Why is the police effective to prevent right wing protests but not left wing protests? ]
A parallel can be drawn comparing the way both Biden’s America and Israel are byased when addressing left and right protests.

American Greatness reported “Attorney General Merrick Garland’s office has targeted parents at school board meetings as potential terrorists, but is indifferent to Antifa running rampant in some American cities, launching military-style assaults on a new police training facility in Atlanta, and storming state capitol buildings in Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.”

On March 29, 2023 the Gateway Pundit reported “Merrick Garland Caught Lying Under Oath – Exposed for Telling US Marshals NOT to Arrest Leftist Protesters Outside SCOTUS Justices’ Homes – But Calls for 1,000 More Arrests of Trump Supporters Standing Outside US Capitol on Jan. 6

“…Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) confronted Attorney General Merrick Garland on his defilement of US Justice system. Merrick Garland, arguably the most dishonest AG in US history, refuses to investigate or prosecute blatant criminal activity on the left. But hunts down Trump supporters and raids their homes at 6 AM in the morning for walking inside the US Capitol on January 6 after they were waved in by police officers. On Tuesday during the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Senator Britt questioned Garland about the fact that US Marshals guarding the homes of Supreme Court justices were instructed “not to arrest protesters” at the homes. This was despite the fact that Garland previously claimed that the marshals had a free hand when it came to making arrests.

“Senator Britt: You said, quote, “The marshals have been advised, and they know and the marshals on the ground, they have full authority to arrest people under any federal statute, including that federal statute,” end quote. That was in direct reference to Section 1507. You went on to say, the Attorney General does not decide whether to arrest. The Marshals on the scene they do make the decision of whether to arrest.”

“The freshman senator continued: Senator Britt: “After your appearance before the Judiciary Committee, we obtained copies of the slide deck that were used to train and prepare the Marshals for their protective detail at the homes of the Justices. Those training materials show that the marshals likely didn’t make any arrests under Section 1507 for a pretty simple reason they were actively discouraged from doing so. As you can see on the slide behind me, the marshals were explicitly told to avoid, unless absolutely necessary, any criminal enforcement action involving the protester. It gets worse. The DOJ told the Marshals NOT TO ENGAGE in “protest-related enforcement.”

“Senator Britt: The next slide directs the Marshals not to engage in protest-related enforcement actions beyond those that were strictly and immediately necessary and tailored to ensure the physical security of the justices. If you’ll see in the next slide here, it discourages the Marshals from making arrests under any section 1507 by asserting that “there may be a First Amendment right to harass the families of the judges.”

“The Attorney General was purposefully putting the lives of the Supreme Court justices and their families in mortal danger. He ordered the stand down!

“…And at the same time, he is set to arrest another 1,000 Trump supporters for standing outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, during the Fedsurrection. It boggles the mind.”
Biden’s America and Israel react in different ways to left and right protests. How would the Israeli police react if the right in Israel used the same tactics than the left? The left shut down highways, airports and medical services, what would happen if the right did the same to demand the application of sovereignty?


https://www.israelunwired.com/is-the-world-turning-against-palestine/?
For years the world ignored “palestinian” blood libels and hate, but Chancellor Scholz of Germany appears to be part of a growing trend of leaders willing to break ranks with “palestinian” leadership.
Germany's Scholz rejects use of 'apartheid' to describe Israel | DW News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7nklEt-tcw&t=1s

In a live press conference in Berlin, the chancellor made it clear in front of “palestinian” President Mahmoud Abbas, that Scholz does not “believe it is right to use the term” apartheid when describing the Israel-“palestinian” conflict. This surprised Abbas and he went on a tirade about Israel committing 50 holocausts. While Scholz did not respond to that and instead just abruptly ended the press conference, it was clear that Abbas’ comments distanced Germany.

“I am disgusted by the outrageous remarks made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,” Scholz said. “For us Germans in particular, any relativization of the singularity of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable. I condemn any attempt to deny the crimes of the Holocaust.”

With the Gulf States forming an evolving economic alliance with Israel and the growing realization that “palestine” has become more of a liability than anything else, Abbas is fast becoming a persona non-grata.

Israel may have a long way to go in terms of full peace with its Arab neighbors, but the bane in its existence – the so called “palestinians” are becoming non-important for many in global leadership roles.

https://www.israelunwired.com/israel-shoots-down-iranian-uavs-on-syrian-border/?
ISRAEL SHOOTS DOWN IRANIAN UAVS ON SYRIAN BORDER
written by Micha Gefen April 4, 2023 2428 views
In what was supposed to be a surprise attack by Iran on Israel from Syria, the IDF shoots down two Iranian unmanned aircraft that had crossed into Israel from Syria.
Aircraft and combat helicopters eliminated an unidentified aircraft on Sunday. The aircraft appeared to have crossed into northern Israel from Syria. The unidentified aircraft was part of a tit for tat between Israel and Syria.

After the incursion the IAF attacked targets in Syria near Damascus killing two IRCG advisors from Iran.

The attack drones are similar to the ones suppled by Iran to Russia to be used in Ukraine.

https://www.israelunwired.com/world-renowned-cardiologist-no-more-covid-shots/?
WORLD RENOWNED CARDIOLOGIST – “NO MORE COVID SHOTS”
written by Avi Abelow March 13, 2023
Dr. Peter McCullough is widely regarded as one of the most published and researched medical professionals on the planet. He has over 1000 publications and 600 citations in the National Library of Medicine, as well as being a founder and current president of the Cardiorenal Society of America.
He isone of the most respected doctors in the world, and has been a beacon of light throughout this covid-19 insanity.

What is Dr. McCollough’s reward for voicing his expert opinion? He’s being stripped of his credentials.

Back in October, 2022 he was terminated as Editor-in-Chief of Cardiorenal Medicine and Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine.

Below is the personal message he sent to a journalist about his termination:

I was terminated as the Editor-In-Chief of Cardiorenal Medicine and Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine after years of service and rising impact factors. There was no phone call, no board meeting, no due process. Just e-mails or certified letters. Powerful dark forces are working in academic medicine to expunge any resistance to the vax.

Yesterday I was stripped of my board certifications in Internal Medicine and Cardiology after decades of perfect clinical performance, board scores, and hundreds of peer reviewed publications.

None of this will stop until there is a “needle in every arm.”
https://www.israelunwired.com/confused-everything-about-the-judicial-reform-crisis-explained/
CONFUSED? EVERYTHING ABOUT THE JUDICIAL REFORM CRISIS EXPLAINED
written by Leah Rosenberg April 3, 2023 650 views
Everyone is talking about it. And not only in Israel. What is going on with this judicial reform crisis that Israel is facing?
Everything You Need to Know About Israel’s Judicial Reform
People are so misinformed. They think they know what’s happening in Israel, but they have no idea. This video really explains everything that’s going on with the judicial reform crisis that’s flooding the news headlines.

The Left has done a good PR job of making it seem like the Right is taking away democracy. But that is the farthest thing from the truth. What currently takes place now in Israel in the Supreme Court is completely against democracy. Israel’s Supreme Court acts in a way that is so far from democracy, it is actually terrifying. People need to know the facts. The Right in Israel is not trying to take away anyone’s human rights. The judicial reform will further ensure the rights of all its citizens. It will further ensure that the IDF can protect Israel and the Jewish people.

The facts are clear. Maybe some people don’t know the facts. But once people learn them, they should realize that a judicial reform is not bad for the state of Israel – quite the opposite. If after watching this video people still think there should not be any type of judicial reform, then it is clear that they do not want what’s best for Israel and its citizens, but they only care about keeping the Left as powerful as possible.

Let’s pray that people wake up to the truth.

https://www.israelunwired.com/a-new-phase-in-u-s-israel-relations/?
A NEW PHASE IN U.S.-ISRAEL RELATIONS
written by Caroline Glick April 3, 2023 1291 views

The Biden administration’s statements and actions this week, coupled with its overall policies towards Israel since entering office, indicate a sea change.

(JNS) Israel was rocked by the news on Thursday that the U.S. State Department had ordered NASA scientist Dr. Amber Straughn to cancel her participation in the Israel Physical Society’s annual meeting. The news came following Straughn’s posting on Twitter that her “travel authorization was revoked” on Wednesday.

The State Department’s move, which gives the appearance of an official boycott, would be stunning under any circumstance. But it is all the more alarming coming on the heels of U.S. President Joe Biden’s shocking remarks in relation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s efforts to place minimal limits on the Supreme Court’s currently limitless powers.

In apparently off-the-cuff remarks to reporters on Tuesday, Biden said curtly: “Like many strong supporters of Israel I am very concerned, and I’m concerned that they get this [judicial reform] straight. They cannot continue down this road. Hopefully, the prime minister will act in a way that he’s going to try to work out some genuine compromise. But that remains to be seen.”

Then, after interfering in Israel’s domestic affairs, Biden added: “We’re not interfering. They know my position. They know America’s position. They know the American Jewish position.”

When in a follow-up a reporter asked Biden if he would invite Netanyahu to the White House, the president’s response was immediate and unhesitating.

“No, not in the near term.”

Even before the State Department ordered Straughn to cancel her trip, it was abundantly clear that Biden’s statement wasn’t a fluke. And it wasn’t about Netanyahu. Despite the occasional compliments that Biden and his advisers showered on Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett, the administration’s policies were not more pro-Israel when they were in power. Notwithstanding the failure of the administration’s nuclear diplomacy with Iran last year, the Biden administration remained committed to its policy of appeasing Iran and facilitating its nuclear advancement, despite the previous government’s expressed opposition.

The Biden administration’s single-minded commitment to its pro-Iran policy was most unmistakable in the strong-arm tactics it used to force Lapid to agree to a gas deal with Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon on the eve of the Nov. 1 elections. Under the terms of the deal, in exchange for absolutely nothing, Israel was required to cede its sovereign waters and economic waters, and a natural-gas deposit to Lebanon.

The deal gave Iran’s Lebanese proxy a cash windfall and a foothold in the Eastern Mediterranean. When Israel tried to draw out negotiations, Biden publicly hectored Lapid to close a deal. He refused to speak with Lapid on the phone for months and only did so after Lapid capitulated to Hezbollah demands—transmitted by the U.S. interlocutors.

Then there are the Palestinians. Throughout the previous government’s time in office, the Biden administration was open about its rejection of Israel’s national and legal rights in Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem. They sided with illegal Arab squatters and their supporters as they rioted against their Jewish landlords and Jewish neighbors in Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood in Jerusalem. They opposed Israel’s counterterror operations and opened an FBI investigation against soldiers and officers in the Israel Defense Forces.

The administration subverted the Abraham Accords by compelling Israel to accept the Palestinians in the Abraham Accord summits. Palestinian participation transformed what had been a working alliance against Iran into a pile-on against Israel—orchestrated and led by the State Department.

As for Democrats in Congress, they drew out the approval process of supplemental Iron Dome missiles following “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” making clear that Democrat-controlled congresses cannot be expected to automatically approve military aid to Israel.

All of this happened while the Israeli left was in power.

One of the notable aspects of Biden’s remarks on Tuesday is that the day before, Netanyahu already shelved his government’s judicial reform bill and opted to negotiate with opposition leaders to see if it is possible to reach a compromise package acceptable to a broader majority. Biden’s decision to escalate his rhetoric after Netanyahu had agreed to Biden’s position indicates that the administration was less interested in blocking judicial reform than in destabilizing Netanyahu’s government.

The administration’s statements and actions this week, coupled with its overall policies towards Israel since entering office, indicate that Israel has reached a new phase in its relationship with America.

Until now, Israel had a strategic alliance with the United States. Now as a decade of polling has shown, Israel is viewed with hostility by some Americans, and it is strongly supported by other Americans. The most recent poll of U.S. support by Gallup makes the point explicitly.

The poll showed that overall, most Americans are more supportive of Israel than of the Palestinians. But for the first time, 49% of Democrats are more sympathetic towards the Palestinians than towards Israel. A total of 38% of Democrats are more sympathetic towards Israel. Among Republicans, 78% are more supportive of Israel, and a mere 11% are more sympathetic to the Palestinians. Independents are likewise more supportive of Israel than the Palestinians but by a smaller margin.

All the same, the Democrats are one of two parties. And currently, they are more supportive of the Palestinians than of Israel, and that preference is reflected in administration and congressional policies and actions.

A different, deeper understanding of American society

How is Israel supposed to handle this new relationship?

The first place to look for answers is in the past. In the 1950s and 1960s, France was Israel’s closest ally. But following France’s withdrawal from Algeria, then-French President Charles de Gaulle turned towards the Arabs and against Israel.

Two things are different about Israel’s current crisis with the United States and the fracture of its relations with France. First, de Gaulle was at the height of his power and popularity when he turned his back on Israel. So when he abandoned Israel, he took France with him. This isn’t the case with Biden and America.

Following Biden’s remarks, some Israeli commenters argued that Biden is likely the last Democrat President who will define himself as a Zionist. If current trends continue, no future Democrat president will risk expressing support for Israel.

The truth is more complicated. For the past 20 years, progressives have built a creed predicated on identity politics. They wove together a coalition of predetermined victim groups tied to one another though the concept of “intersectionality.” Intersectionality asserts that all “victim” groups are automatically aligned. The Palestinians had long been allied with some of the designated victim groups—first and foremost, black nationalists tied to Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam. Using its existing alliances, pro-Palestinian activists lobbied to be included in the intersectional alliance. Their success was not a foregone conclusion. But so far, it has been wildly successful and has been instrumental in undermining support for Israel and the position of Jews in the progressive camp and the Democrat Party.

To change the situation, Israel needs to work assiduously to fray the unanimity of hostility among members of the progressive alliance. This won’t be easy. The work requires a different, deeper understanding of American society than most Israelis possess. But it is doable. Israel can make inroads within the African-American community, and the Latino and Asian communities. It can rebuild its longstanding relationships with labor unions, and high-tech and financial-sector professional associations, among others.

Beyond that, Israel needs to maintain and shore up its ties with the people and sectors of American society who support it. This includes evangelical Christians, Catholics and other conservative groups.

The most astounding claim Biden made in his Tuesday diatribe was that his views are shared by American Jews. Certainly, some American Jewish groups oppose the Israeli right. U.S. Jewish groups One Voice and the New Israel Fund, among others, reportedly financed a significant chunk of the left’s anti-government campaign for the past three months. Progressive Jewish groups are increasingly willing to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with anti-Zionists and BDS activists.

All the same, most American Jews are supportive of Israel, regardless of who is in power. They do not support the administration’s pro-Iran policies or its pro-Palestinian bias. Israel needs to stand with and empower this majority. It must stand with them as they defend themselves and their right to support Israel on campuses, in their workplaces and in their communities.

As for Israel’s relationship with the administration itself, it is fairly clear that Israel needs to recalibrate its strategic posture. It is impossible to know whether the Biden administration will want to negotiate another long-term military aid agreement, and it is also unclear whether Israel is better or worse off maintaining its position as a recipient of U.S. military aid.

Israel may be better off paying for U.S. military platforms out of its own pocket and transforming its relationship from that of a client into one of a partner in defense technology development. On March 13, the U.S. Air Force conducted another unsuccessful test of one of the two hypersonic missiles it is developing. Washington may or may not want Israel’s help with its hypersonic missile program, which is lagging far behind China and Russia’s programs. But Israel is probably the only U.S. ally capable of helping. Certainly, under the present circumstances, Israel’s relationship with the United States will be more secure if it is based on collaboration in areas of mutual interest rather than dependence.

With the U.S. position on issues of critical importance to Israel—first and foremost, Iran and the Palestinians, changing completely depending on the president’s partisan affiliation— Israel needs to stop relying on America on issues that require continuous, high-intensity cooperation.

Building interest-based partnerships with other nations

This brings us to the second difference between the new phase we have entered in U.S.-Israel ties and de Gaulle’s breach of Franco-Israeli ties in the 1960s. When the French leader turned on Israel, Israel had the United States more or less at the ready, willing to replace France as Israel’s superpower ally. Today, Israel has no alternative waiting in the wings.

But it may not need one. Israel is much more powerful today than it was in the 1960s. It doesn’t need a protector; it needs partners. Beginning in 2013, Netanyahu began a process of building interest-based partnerships with nations across the region and across the world. These relationships with states in the region and worldwide already form the nucleus of a strategic posture that can secure Israel’s position.

Biden’s statement on Tuesday was roundly applauded by Israeli leftists hell-bent on overthrowing Netanyahu’s government. They would do well to think this through. Sure, Biden has issues with Netanyahu. But the policies Biden pursues vis-à-vis Iran and the Palestinians work to Israel’s strategic disadvantage regardless of who is in power, as his strong-arming of Lapid on the Hezbollah gas deal made clear.

Biden is not de Gaulle, in stature or in influence. American support for Israel is diminishing in some quarters. Still, it remains strong overall. Much can be done to change the situation for the better. And Israel is a powerful, wealthy nation with viable alternatives to strategic dependence on the United States.

This has been a bad week for Israel-U.S. relations, but it isn’t cause for despair. Rather, it is cause for a sober-minded reassessment and rearrangement of Israel’s relations with America to bring them in line with current realities.

https://www.israelunwired.com/a-new-phase-in-u-s-israel-relations/?
A NEW PHASE IN U.S.-ISRAEL RELATIONS
written by Caroline Glick April 3, 2023 1291 views

The Biden administration’s statements and actions this week, coupled with its overall policies towards Israel since entering office, indicate a sea change.

(JNS) Israel was rocked by the news on Thursday that the U.S. State Department had ordered NASA scientist Dr. Amber Straughn to cancel her participation in the Israel Physical Society’s annual meeting. The news came following Straughn’s posting on Twitter that her “travel authorization was revoked” on Wednesday.

The State Department’s move, which gives the appearance of an official boycott, would be stunning under any circumstance. But it is all the more alarming coming on the heels of U.S. President Joe Biden’s shocking remarks in relation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s efforts to place minimal limits on the Supreme Court’s currently limitless powers.

In apparently off-the-cuff remarks to reporters on Tuesday, Biden said curtly: “Like many strong supporters of Israel I am very concerned, and I’m concerned that they get this [judicial reform] straight. They cannot continue down this road. Hopefully, the prime minister will act in a way that he’s going to try to work out some genuine compromise. But that remains to be seen.”

Then, after interfering in Israel’s domestic affairs, Biden added: “We’re not interfering. They know my position. They know America’s position. They know the American Jewish position.”

When in a follow-up a reporter asked Biden if he would invite Netanyahu to the White House, the president’s response was immediate and unhesitating.

“No, not in the near term.”

Even before the State Department ordered Straughn to cancel her trip, it was abundantly clear that Biden’s statement wasn’t a fluke. And it wasn’t about Netanyahu. Despite the occasional compliments that Biden and his advisers showered on Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett, the administration’s policies were not more pro-Israel when they were in power. Notwithstanding the failure of the administration’s nuclear diplomacy with Iran last year, the Biden administration remained committed to its policy of appeasing Iran and facilitating its nuclear advancement, despite the previous government’s expressed opposition.

The Biden administration’s single-minded commitment to its pro-Iran policy was most unmistakable in the strong-arm tactics it used to force Lapid to agree to a gas deal with Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon on the eve of the Nov. 1 elections. Under the terms of the deal, in exchange for absolutely nothing, Israel was required to cede its sovereign waters and economic waters, and a natural-gas deposit to Lebanon.

The deal gave Iran’s Lebanese proxy a cash windfall and a foothold in the Eastern Mediterranean. When Israel tried to draw out negotiations, Biden publicly hectored Lapid to close a deal. He refused to speak with Lapid on the phone for months and only did so after Lapid capitulated to Hezbollah demands—transmitted by the U.S. interlocutors.

Then there are the Palestinians. Throughout the previous government’s time in office, the Biden administration was open about its rejection of Israel’s national and legal rights in Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem. They sided with illegal Arab squatters and their supporters as they rioted against their Jewish landlords and Jewish neighbors in Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood in Jerusalem. They opposed Israel’s counterterror operations and opened an FBI investigation against soldiers and officers in the Israel Defense Forces.

The administration subverted the Abraham Accords by compelling Israel to accept the Palestinians in the Abraham Accord summits. Palestinian participation transformed what had been a working alliance against Iran into a pile-on against Israel—orchestrated and led by the State Department.

As for Democrats in Congress, they drew out the approval process of supplemental Iron Dome missiles following “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” making clear that Democrat-controlled congresses cannot be expected to automatically approve military aid to Israel.

All of this happened while the Israeli left was in power.

One of the notable aspects of Biden’s remarks on Tuesday is that the day before, Netanyahu already shelved his government’s judicial reform bill and opted to negotiate with opposition leaders to see if it is possible to reach a compromise package acceptable to a broader majority. Biden’s decision to escalate his rhetoric after Netanyahu had agreed to Biden’s position indicates that the administration was less interested in blocking judicial reform than in destabilizing Netanyahu’s government.

The administration’s statements and actions this week, coupled with its overall policies towards Israel since entering office, indicate that Israel has reached a new phase in its relationship with America.

Until now, Israel had a strategic alliance with the United States. Now as a decade of polling has shown, Israel is viewed with hostility by some Americans, and it is strongly supported by other Americans. The most recent poll of U.S. support by Gallup makes the point explicitly.

The poll showed that overall, most Americans are more supportive of Israel than of the Palestinians. But for the first time, 49% of Democrats are more sympathetic towards the Palestinians than towards Israel. A total of 38% of Democrats are more sympathetic towards Israel. Among Republicans, 78% are more supportive of Israel, and a mere 11% are more sympathetic to the Palestinians. Independents are likewise more supportive of Israel than the Palestinians but by a smaller margin.

All the same, the Democrats are one of two parties. And currently, they are more supportive of the Palestinians than of Israel, and that preference is reflected in administration and congressional policies and actions.

A different, deeper understanding of American society

How is Israel supposed to handle this new relationship?

The first place to look for answers is in the past. In the 1950s and 1960s, France was Israel’s closest ally. But following France’s withdrawal from Algeria, then-French President Charles de Gaulle turned towards the Arabs and against Israel.

Two things are different about Israel’s current crisis with the United States and the fracture of its relations with France. First, de Gaulle was at the height of his power and popularity when he turned his back on Israel. So when he abandoned Israel, he took France with him. This isn’t the case with Biden and America.

Following Biden’s remarks, some Israeli commenters argued that Biden is likely the last Democrat President who will define himself as a Zionist. If current trends continue, no future Democrat president will risk expressing support for Israel.

The truth is more complicated. For the past 20 years, progressives have built a creed predicated on identity politics. They wove together a coalition of predetermined victim groups tied to one another though the concept of “intersectionality.” Intersectionality asserts that all “victim” groups are automatically aligned. The Palestinians had long been allied with some of the designated victim groups—first and foremost, black nationalists tied to Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam. Using its existing alliances, pro-Palestinian activists lobbied to be included in the intersectional alliance. Their success was not a foregone conclusion. But so far, it has been wildly successful and has been instrumental in undermining support for Israel and the position of Jews in the progressive camp and the Democrat Party.

To change the situation, Israel needs to work assiduously to fray the unanimity of hostility among members of the progressive alliance. This won’t be easy. The work requires a different, deeper understanding of American society than most Israelis possess. But it is doable. Israel can make inroads within the African-American community, and the Latino and Asian communities. It can rebuild its longstanding relationships with labor unions, and high-tech and financial-sector professional associations, among others.

Beyond that, Israel needs to maintain and shore up its ties with the people and sectors of American society who support it. This includes evangelical Christians, Catholics and other conservative groups.

The most astounding claim Biden made in his Tuesday diatribe was that his views are shared by American Jews. Certainly, some American Jewish groups oppose the Israeli right. U.S. Jewish groups One Voice and the New Israel Fund, among others, reportedly financed a significant chunk of the left’s anti-government campaign for the past three months. Progressive Jewish groups are increasingly willing to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with anti-Zionists and BDS activists.

All the same, most American Jews are supportive of Israel, regardless of who is in power. They do not support the administration’s pro-Iran policies or its pro-Palestinian bias. Israel needs to stand with and empower this majority. It must stand with them as they defend themselves and their right to support Israel on campuses, in their workplaces and in their communities.

As for Israel’s relationship with the administration itself, it is fairly clear that Israel needs to recalibrate its strategic posture. It is impossible to know whether the Biden administration will want to negotiate another long-term military aid agreement, and it is also unclear whether Israel is better or worse off maintaining its position as a recipient of U.S. military aid.

Israel may be better off paying for U.S. military platforms out of its own pocket and transforming its relationship from that of a client into one of a partner in defense technology development. On March 13, the U.S. Air Force conducted another unsuccessful test of one of the two hypersonic missiles it is developing. Washington may or may not want Israel’s help with its hypersonic missile program, which is lagging far behind China and Russia’s programs. But Israel is probably the only U.S. ally capable of helping. Certainly, under the present circumstances, Israel’s relationship with the United States will be more secure if it is based on collaboration in areas of mutual interest rather than dependence.

With the U.S. position on issues of critical importance to Israel—first and foremost, Iran and the Palestinians, changing completely depending on the president’s partisan affiliation— Israel needs to stop relying on America on issues that require continuous, high-intensity cooperation.

Building interest-based partnerships with other nations

This brings us to the second difference between the new phase we have entered in U.S.-Israel ties and de Gaulle’s breach of Franco-Israeli ties in the 1960s. When the French leader turned on Israel, Israel had the United States more or less at the ready, willing to replace France as Israel’s superpower ally. Today, Israel has no alternative waiting in the wings.

But it may not need one. Israel is much more powerful today than it was in the 1960s. It doesn’t need a protector; it needs partners. Beginning in 2013, Netanyahu began a process of building interest-based partnerships with nations across the region and across the world. These relationships with states in the region and worldwide already form the nucleus of a strategic posture that can secure Israel’s position.

Biden’s statement on Tuesday was roundly applauded by Israeli leftists hell-bent on overthrowing Netanyahu’s government. They would do well to think this through. Sure, Biden has issues with Netanyahu. But the policies Biden pursues vis-à-vis Iran and the Palestinians work to Israel’s strategic disadvantage regardless of who is in power, as his strong-arming of Lapid on the Hezbollah gas deal made clear.

Biden is not de Gaulle, in stature or in influence. American support for Israel is diminishing in some quarters. Still, it remains strong overall. Much can be done to change the situation for the better. And Israel is a powerful, wealthy nation with viable alternatives to strategic dependence on the United States.

This has been a bad week for Israel-U.S. relations, but it isn’t cause for despair. Rather, it is cause for a sober-minded reassessment and rearrangement of Israel’s relations with America to bring them in line with current realities.

https://www.israelunwired.com/ben-shapiro-exposed-the-lefts-ridiculous-case-against-trump/
BEN SHAPIRO EXPOSED THE LEFT’S RIDICULOUS CASE AGAINST TRUMP
written by Phil Schneider April 3, 2023 1280 views
What is it about Donald Trump that so rattles the left that nearly every red-line is crossed in order to keep Donald Trump from accruing power and being reelected in 2024? Isn’t Trump a dead dog following the Jan. 6th march-protest-riot on the Capitol? Some people on the left in America don’t think so. They think that Donald Trump is so dangerous that he must be removed from even reaching a point of candidacy in 2024.

https://www.israelunwired.com/ben-shapiro-exposed-the-lefts-ridiculous-case-against-trump/
Most political pollsters would tell you that a Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley nomination should scare the Democrats much more than a Trump nomination. They are less controversial, but still effective Republican leaders with excellent track records. So why does the Donald get most of the focus and the attacks from the far left? There are various theories.

One theory is that Donald Trump so infuriates the Left that the Left loses all logic when thinking about a potential candidacy of Trump. So, they simply can’t help but focus their arrows on him. Another theory is that Trump’s ability to bring out the disaffected middle America voters is still a major threat that the Democrat pollsters see as a major factor. Despite a rather poor showing in the midterms, some Democrats think that there is a major difference between Trump-supported candidates and Trump the candidate. So, the fear is still there that in 2024, he could pull it off himself like he did in 2016.

But there is probably a more reasonable explanation. Even if DeSantis or Haley have a better chance at moving centrist oriented voters like suburban moms to the Republican side, they don’t scare the Democrats like Trump does. Trump is a candidate who destroys the norms on nearly every issue. DeSantis fights back effectively against the press when they attack him. But Trump debases and destroys the credibility of the press. Haley hits back against enemies of the United States. Trump has shown that he is willing to order attacks and scare the living daylights out of dictators. Trump is an earthquake making President.

For those in the radical left, like George Soros, the World Economic Forum, and other progressive power players, Donald Trump is the only candidate willing to call out their influence who will try to destroy their power structures. Trump, after losing in 2020, is akin to a wild bear with the cunning of a fox that the left fears more than anyone else today. Trump threatens their power structures. That is why they hate his guts. Trump plays dirty and he plays to win. That is why the attacks keep coming to destroy Donald Trump, even if it means the Democrats will lose the election to a different Republican.

https://www.israelunwired.com/the-truth-about-mk-ben-gvir-that-the-media-refuses-to-admit/
THE TRUTH ABOUT MK BEN-GVIR THAT THE MEDIA REFUSES TO ADMIT
written by Leah Rosenberg April 4, 2023 899 views

Itamar Ben-Gvir is Israel’s Minister of National Security. He truly just wants to protect Israeli citizens – Jews and Arabs alike.

Ben-Gvir and the National Guard Force
The media spreads rumors constantly. They don’t care what fear it might cause. They don’t care that they lie. As long as the media’s agenda is in line with a rumor and lie, they will spread it far and wide. But people need to know the truth. And when it comes to someone like Itamar Ben-Gvir, people don’t know the truth. They claim Ben-Gvir is a right-wing extremist. What is extreme about wanting to protect his people?

Ben-Gvir, as his adviser Yishai Fleisher said, would like to protect the Arab citizens of Israel as well. He is not only trying to protect the Jewish people. Ben-Gvir wants to protect Israel’s citizens against terror and violence.

The Left won’t tell you Ben-Gvir is caring for the Arab citizens of Israel as well. They won’t tell you that he’s not trying to create a private militia. They want to frame Israel’s Minister of National Security as a threat to Israel and the people of Israel. And that is so, so wrong.

But it is time to stop believing rumors. It is time to start paying attention to the facts on the ground.

Israeli citizens deserve to be protected. As Fleisher mentioned, the riots that took placed in mixed Jewish and Arab cities in Israel in 2021 were horrendous. The Jews were not protected. Is it so bad to ensure that something like that never happens again? Itamar Ben-Gvir deserves applause for what he’s trying to do – not condemnation.

https://www.israelunwired.com/will-the-judicial-reform-hiatus-be-the-pause-that-refreshes/?utm_source=jeeng&utm_medium=email&trigger=click
WILL THE JUDICIAL REFORM HIATUS BE THE PAUSE THAT REFRESHES?
written by Douglas Altabef March 30, 2023 163 views
Proponents should take this opportunity to educate the public on the Supreme Court’s many abuses.

(JNS) In a drama worthy of a TV series, the pressure on the Israeli government to either proceed or abandon judicial reform legislation resulted in a cliff-hanging non-event: The reform’s prime movers agreed to a pause or freeze or cessation of the legislative process starting March 27 and extending until the Knesset returns in May from its post-Passover recess.

Depending on one’s perspective, the cessation can be viewed as a victory for the protests against the reforms, a face-saving time-out for the coalition or a chance for all concerned to reassess and reapproach the issue.

This final possibility might be seen as naive or wishful thinking. Other than Benny Gantz, none of the opposition leaders have shown any interest in discussion, let alone negotiation. However, I would humbly suggest that the pause might be a major opportunity for proponents of the reforms.

This is because the hiatus gives supporters time to make the case for reform: The straightforward but detailed case that the Israeli Supreme Court has abused the judicial process and change is necessary to restore democratic sovereignty, a more equal balance between the branches of government and, ultimately, a more accountable and trustworthy Court.

Sadly, making this case was something that needed to be but was not done before the proposed legislation was introduced.

In a recent webinar I hosted with Eugene Kontorovich of the Kohelet Policy Forum and American Judge Michael Mukasey, my guests presented a long list of the Court’s abuses.

It included the complete untethering of the Court’s decision-making from any objective standards or the criteria scrupulously employed by other Western judiciaries. The Court’s embrace of an amorphous standard of “reasonableness” means the Court has arrogated to itself sole discretion and a self-referential standard in order to determine the outcome of any given case.

This is oligarchic despotism in its purest form. At least the Iranian mullahs have the Quran to reference in their fatwas. The Israeli Supreme Court has a “because I say so” standard that cannot engender much trust, except among those whom the Court reliably supports: non-Jewish minorities.

If handled properly, the hiatus could be the proverbial pause that refreshes. What would be refreshed is awareness of the seriousness of the problem.

Most opponents of judicial reform think the reforms are a cynical effort to replace sagacious, non-biased, independent judicial review with hack appointments who will do the bidding of their legislative masters.

Such a view betrays a profound ignorance of how courts function and attributes controlling malevolence to elected officials. The history of judicial appointments by presidents of the United States, however, clearly shows that a) there is very serious interest in appointing highly qualified individuals, and b) there is a long tradition of presidential disappointment with their own appointments, as justices inevitably go their own independent way.

I have no doubt that the same will apply in Israel, assuming the selection process for justices can be uncoupled from the self-selecting process now in place. The quality of justices will not change. What would change is the ideological and social uniformity of those justices.

One would think that progressive opponents of reform, those who embrace diversity as a religion, would love to see the same apply to Israel’s Supreme Court. It would be the Israeli equivalent of what liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor famously said: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

Instead, the opposition is clinging tenaciously to the uniform makeup of the Court, which not only hasn’t lived the life of most Israelis, but cannot even fathom what that life might entail.

The very detailed list of judicial abuses and self-serving, ideologically-oriented stances taken by the Court can and needs to be presented to the public before the Knesset returns and the legislation is reconsidered.

Let’s be realistic: The protests will continue because the hardcore left smells blood in the water. Their real goal has little to do judicial reform and much to do with bringing down the government. Agreeing to negotiations is a tacit admission of the need for change, which the hardcore left sees as completely self-defeating.

The real hope is that, as they have often done in the past, the hardcore left overplays their hand. By showing the truly concerned, non-ideological protesters what their true agenda is, the hardcore left could further the cause of reform by strengthening the hand of those like Gantz who are interested in finding a solution that promotes the public interest.

Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli summed up the hardcore left’s inflexibility: “The coup d’état laws must be finally and completely scrapped and shelved. Consign this abomination to the dustbin of history.”

Let’s hope that reform proponents seize the day and embark on a campaign to educate, enlighten and open the eyes of Israeli citizens to how much judicial reform is required. We will all be better off for it.

https://www.israelunwired.com/the-unlimited-power-of-israels-supreme-court/
THE UNLIMITED POWER OF ISRAEL’S SUPREME COURT
written by Shmuel Sackett March 30, 2023 2027 views
Most people simply have no clue as to how much power Israel’s Supreme Court has.
There is literally no example of this anywhere in the world. In a recent interview with Piers Morgan, Netanyahu said the following: “Israel’s Supreme Court can nullify any decision of the Knesset, can nullify any appointment of the government, can intervene in military matters, can intervene in the fight against terror and can even try to stop the government from taking gas out of the sea… a project that will bring billions of dollars into the economy.”

He stressed over and over that there is no democracy in the world that gives the judiciary this kind of absolute power.

Had this been explained in a clear and simple way, the protest movement would have ended before it began. However, the government dismissed these protests as meaningless.

Furthermore, the attorney-general forbade Netanyahu from speaking on this issue, calling it a conflict of interest. This was a gamechanger.

In addition, the right didn’t realize how well organized and, especially, how well-funded they were. People were being paid to attend these rallies – I know this for a fact; 250 shekel to attend the rally plus an additional 100 shekel for transportation expenses.

The political losers (Lapid, Gantz, Michaeli and Barak) then went to stage 2. They claimed the current government was against women, peace and democracy.

Stage 3 was an attack against Haredim – the usual favorite pin-cushion of the left.

During all these months, the response by Bibi and his team was poor and disorganized, and the left jumped on it. They continued with their full court press and nonstop attacks. They used a brilliant marketing technique, which I call “Claiming Ownership.” This is simple, yet highly effective.

It works like this: 10 companies are in an industry, all competing for business, when all-of-a-sudden one of them – just one of them – claims that they have a money-back guarantee. They then say that they have five engineers on staff for quality control, a 24-hour customer service center, a website in Spanish etc… In reality, all 10 of these companies have the same thing… but since they didn’t say anything – the one that announced it – Claimed Ownership!

This is what happened in Israel. The leftists claimed they are pro-democracy, that they want equal rights, that they care about the future of Israel and the biggest one of all; that they don’t want a civil war (Lapid and Barak repeatedly said that there will be blood in the streets).

They never said the right wants a civil war, that would have been terrible. Instead, they said that they don’t want one and, as stated previously, since there was no response from the right, the people started to believe that its Opposition leader Lapid and his gang of election losers who want unity, democracy and brotherly love while Bibi, [Religious Zionism party leader] Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir [Otzma Yehudit] want war, bloodshed and dictatorship.

One more important point must be made. Israel is very similar to America in one critical way. The majority of the people are good and strong and live according to religious values but the leadership in all areas are in the hands of the weak, apologetic, politically correct liberals. Just think for a moment about Hollywood, the military, the academia, the media, the economy and the whole digital world. Outside of a very few exceptions, these are all in the hands of the political left. Israel is exactly the same way.

This is why, when they saw Bibi silent, they jumped on the opportunity to join the fight. The pilots (most of whom haven’t flown in 30 years), the labor union, the healthcare system… they all joined in the “Get Bibi” fight when they saw he was going down.

Remember what I wrote above: The leftists suffered a major defeat on November 1, 2022 (election day), so they decided that if they can’t run the country… there won’t be a country to run.

The lesson for us in this big mess is simple.

For years the right-wing built settlements, planted trees to keep land in Jewish hands and established Torah-based communities all over the country. They started amazing charity organizations, Jewish educational programs, pre-IDF training centers and much more. They did everything except the most important thing of all: leadership. They left that in the hands of the left and now we see what that means.



https://www.israelunwired.com/everyones-shocked-by-what-biden-said-about-israel/
EVERYONE’S SHOCKED BY WHAT BIDEN SAID ABOUT ISRAEL
written by Phil Schneider April 3, 2023 1891 views
Does Joe Biden dislike Israel? Does he dislike Benjamin Netanyahu? Much is made about the personal relationships between the leaders of nations. This should not be dismissed. But, often, the personal relationships between leaders is overestimated as being the primary issue that leads to friction between leaders. In actuality, it is about basic policy differences where the interests of the two countries simply do not align due to different or clashing ideologies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzCPuPEJ-o8
Israel/U.S. Relations Heading for CRISIS After Biden Slams Netanyahu? | Watchman Newscast

When the Soviet Union placed Mikhail Gorbachev in charge of the Politburo in the mid 80’s, in America, much talk ensued about how different Gorbachev was from his predecessors. Chernenko, Andropov, and especially Brezhnev, were the old guard leaders. Gorbachev was younger, seemed more reasonable, and perhaps a thawing in relations could develop. Until Gorbachev, the greatest accomplishment with the Soviet Union that the United States reached was a state of cold detente. That basically meant that the two superpowers were at least talking and making sure to minimize the chances of a colossal misunderstanding that could put the world on the brink of nuclear war. This was indeed a great accomplishment.

But what truly changed the equation was the ideological goal of Ronald Reagan to defeat the Soviet Union and bring them to their knees economically. Reagan was one of very few people – even in the right wing – who actually believed that the Cold War could be won. In the 60’s and 70’s, it seemed like the strife would go on for another century. Nobody expected it to end in the 80’s. The hero was not Gorbachev, and the key to the United States’ success was not the personal relationship between Reagan and Gorbachev.

True, it may have been a more bloody battle if Andropov, Chernenko, or Brezhnev were at the helm. Gorbachev knew that the Soviet Union could simply not sustain the economic buildup to compete with the expensive Star Wars initiative of Reagan. The Soviet Union was indeed defeated by protesters in Poland, East Germany, a massive US economic build up, diplomacy, and Reagan’s ideology that was driven to defeat the Soviet Union. Reagan, like his predecessors worked to loosen the stranglehold on Eastern Europe and other Soviet satellite countries that longed for freedom. But Reagan wanted to win the battle, not just stay ahead of the Soviet Union. His smiling meetings with Gorbachev were actually very frosty meetings that belied Reagan’s iron will to bring the Soviet Union to it’s knees. The United States prevailed and Eastern Europe is now free, outside of Ukraine.

Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s puppet President is treating Israel similarly to the way that Obama treated Israel. The fact that Biden had a warm personal relationship with Netanyahu 15 years ago has not kept Biden from acting in a cold and distanced manner from Netanyahu. Biden is basically continuing Obama’s policies on nearly every issue.

Barack Obama’s ideological goals were made clear at the outset of his Presidency when he spoke in Egypt. Obama was looking to transform the Middle East and the United States. Just like he was and is not a believer in American exceptionalism, he is not a believer in Israel being an exception in the Middle East. The whole idea of Israel being the only true democracy in the Middle East is not something that Obama subscribes to.

Obama sees Israel as an illegal occupier of a foreign entity’s land. He sees Israel as an oppressor. He looks at the right wing leadership of Israel as the main reason that the Middle East does not have justice. He believes that if Israel is forced to withdraw from Judea and Samaria and the area is turned into the State of Palestine, then all of the countries in the Middle East will be happy and accept little Israel.

Obama is wrong on all of the above. The entire idea of a so-called “Palestinian people” is one big fiction that was created to pressure Israel to walk back it’s amazing victory in a defensive Six Day War of 1967. There is no such thing as land of a Palestinian people because there is no such thing as a Palestinian. It is indeed one big lie that was promulgated by terrorists who want to destroy the entire State of Israel. The Arabs in the State of Israel have it better than in any neighboring Arab country. Democracy in Israel is actually solid and the Arabs in Israel enjoy more freedom in Israel than nearly anywhere else in the Middle East.

There is only one true just solution for the State of Israel’s debate with the Arabs in it’s midst. The solution is a completely robust and powerful State of Israel with an Arab minority that has NO weapons, but only administrative control over it’s own municipal decisions. No other solution is just to the indigenous Jewish people in their indigenous Land, and no other solution works in a Middle East that does not play to the same rules as the Western world. Reagan brought the Soviet Union to it’s knees. Israel must bring the Arabs in their midst to their knees.

The Arab minority in Israel understands strength and weakness. They don’t think in terms of justice and rights. Obama and the far left is completely caught up in ideas that are completely irrelevant to the Middle East. Netanyahu must diplomatically and emphatically say to President Biden to go fly a kite. Israel understands it’s own problems and Biden, the President of the #1 superpower in the world should worry about it’s own border chaos and Chinese balloons. Israel knows how to handle itself.


https://www.israelunwired.com/watch-palestinian-authority-lieutenant-rams-israeli-soldiers/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=WATCH
WATCH: “PALESTINIAN” AUTHORITY LIEUTENANT RAMS ISRAELI SOLDIERS
written by Micha Gefen April 2, 2023 4038 views
The Ramadan jihad continued last night when an Arab terrorist rammed three Israeli soldiers outside the town of Beit Umar near Gush Etzion.
https://pulseofisrael.com/pulse-speaker/

This attack was preceded by an attempted stabbing by an Arab of policemen in Jerusalem’s Old City as well as an attempt by an Arab terrorist to steal a soldier’s machine gun. Both attempts were unsuccessful.

The Beit Umar attack was one of countless attacks that have been committed on the 60 highway over the past few months. Highway 60 is the main North-South route that runs through Judea and Samaria with Jerusalem in the middle.

The month of Ramadan, which was originally the month of jihad against the Jews in Saudi Arabia,has continuously served as a time for Arabs to launch terrorist attacks against Jews in the Land of Israel.


https://www.israelunwired.com/knesset-member-warns-israeli-arabs-dont-push-us-too-far/?utm_source=jeeng&utm_medium=email&trigger=click
KNESSET MEMBER WARNS ISRAELI ARABS: DON’T PUSH US TOO FAR!
written by Micha Gefen June 2, 2022 6665 views

MK General Gallant of the Likud gave a rousing speech in the Knesset, warning Israeli Arabs to stop the violence – or else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0iH5G168V8

The exponential increase in Arab violence over the last few months has sparked an outrage among the Jewish public and is now reaching the Knesset. MK General Yoav Gallant, known for his rightwing views and straightforward speaking style warned the Israeli Arab public to not “cross the red line” with their growing violence.

“If we see an increase in incidents where because we are Jews, we are attacked by a minority, an unprecedented phenomenon worldwide, the minority never attacks the the majority. If you continue down this path we will be forced to act and having no choice is the Jewish People’s most powerful weapon. We have nowhere to go. We’ve already been in Germany, Iraq, and North Africa. We’ve seen the price of it and we don’t want to go anywhere.”

“If you lead us to a point where we have to take our hands out of our pockets, remove our gloves, the price will be heavy.”

With the Likud inching closer to toppling the Bennett-Abbas government, Gallant’s words are a serious assertion and powerful warning to Israeli arabs – Don’t mess around!



https://pulseofisrael.com/2023/04/02/jewish-people-chosen-people/
What a fascinating conversation with Rabbi Neil Winkler, a Rabbi I have had the privilege of knowing and learning from most of my life. Rabbi Winkler writes a weekly Torah column in the Orthodox Union’s Israel Center’s Torah Tidbits. I reached out to him after one of his thought-provoking articles about the Jewish people being the Chosen People.

There is so much depth to understanding how the Jewish people are the chosen people. You do not want to miss this – Rabbi Winkler breaking it all down for us all
Pulse of Israel is changing the conversation.
Help educate the world!

https://www.israelunwired.com/powerful-watch-why-the-idf-cannot-protect-israel-without-judicial-reform/?

POWERFUL: WATCH WHY THE IDF CANNOT PROTECT ISRAEL WITHOUT JUDICIAL REFORM
written by Phil Schneider March 30, 2023 2806 views

Handcuffs. That’s what it comes down to. The Supreme Court of the State of Israel has long gone from being the group of people who administer justice to the group of people that handcuff those who work to keep the country safe and just. Far from being an impartial arbiter, the Supreme Court of the State of Israel acts as a left-wing political party that is not elected by the people, yet has inordinate influence on nearly every activity in the State of Israel.
WATCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTpguxZgthY&t=1s

But indeed, the most important intervention by the Supreme Court over the last twenty years, has been in making sure that everything that the Israel Defense Forces does adheres to the man-made principles that the Justices decide on. That sounds rather lofty and justice-oriented. But actually, it basically means that the IDF is partially run by left-wing judicial back-seat drivers who are driven by radical left-wing values.

In nearly every other Western country, the Supreme Court does not appoint it’s own cohorts. The elected bodies are the ones that appoint and approve the Justices. It would be unfathomable for the United States to fight a war with the handcuffs of the Supreme Court deciding what was acceptable and what was not.

But the most important detail is who elects the judges. In the United States, the Executive Branch nominates. The Senate Judicial Committee must approve the nominees. It’s not a perfect system. But it does keep the Supreme Court rather balanced and representative of what the bulk of the electorate is looking for.

In Israel, the Supreme Court basically represents a far-left world view that is way out of the mainstream of the State of Israel. This only happened due to the fact that the Judiciary has no connection to the electorate – but only to the other members of the Judiciary.

It is finally time to make the changes necessary – once and for all – if Israel will truly become a democracy.

https://www.israelunwired.com/will-the-judicial-reform-hiatus-be-the-pause-that-refreshes/
WILL THE JUDICIAL REFORM HIATUS BE THE PAUSE THAT REFRESHES?
written by Douglas Altabef March 30, 2023 123 views

Proponents should take this opportunity to educate the public on the Supreme Court’s many abuses.

(JNS) In a drama worthy of a TV series, the pressure on the Israeli government to either proceed or abandon judicial reform legislation resulted in a cliff-hanging non-event: The reform’s prime movers agreed to a pause or freeze or cessation of the legislative process starting March 27 and extending until the Knesset returns in May from its post-Passover recess.

Depending on one’s perspective, the cessation can be viewed as a victory for the protests against the reforms, a face-saving time-out for the coalition or a chance for all concerned to reassess and reapproach the issue.

This final possibility might be seen as naive or wishful thinking. Other than Benny Gantz, none of the opposition leaders have shown any interest in discussion, let alone negotiation. However, I would humbly suggest that the pause might be a major opportunity for proponents of the reforms.

This is because the hiatus gives supporters time to make the case for reform: The straightforward but detailed case that the Israeli Supreme Court has abused the judicial process and change is necessary to restore democratic sovereignty, a more equal balance between the branches of government and, ultimately, a more accountable and trustworthy Court.

Sadly, making this case was something that needed to be but was not done before the proposed legislation was introduced.

In a recent webinar I hosted with Eugene Kontorovich of the Kohelet Policy Forum and American Judge Michael Mukasey, my guests presented a long list of the Court’s abuses.

It included the complete untethering of the Court’s decision-making from any objective standards or the criteria scrupulously employed by other Western judiciaries. The Court’s embrace of an amorphous standard of “reasonableness” means the Court has arrogated to itself sole discretion and a self-referential standard in order to determine the outcome of any given case.

This is oligarchic despotism in its purest form. At least the Iranian mullahs have the Quran to reference in their fatwas. The Israeli Supreme Court has a “because I say so” standard that cannot engender much trust, except among those whom the Court reliably supports: non-Jewish minorities.

If handled properly, the hiatus could be the proverbial pause that refreshes. What would be refreshed is awareness of the seriousness of the problem.

Most opponents of judicial reform think the reforms are a cynical effort to replace sagacious, non-biased, independent judicial review with hack appointments who will do the bidding of their legislative masters.

Such a view betrays a profound ignorance of how courts function and attributes controlling malevolence to elected officials. The history of judicial appointments by presidents of the United States, however, clearly shows that a) there is very serious interest in appointing highly qualified individuals, and b) there is a long tradition of presidential disappointment with their own appointments, as justices inevitably go their own independent way.

I have no doubt that the same will apply in Israel, assuming the selection process for justices can be uncoupled from the self-selecting process now in place. The quality of justices will not change. What would change is the ideological and social uniformity of those justices.

One would think that progressive opponents of reform, those who embrace diversity as a religion, would love to see the same apply to Israel’s Supreme Court. It would be the Israeli equivalent of what liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor famously said: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

Instead, the opposition is clinging tenaciously to the uniform makeup of the Court, which not only hasn’t lived the life of most Israelis, but cannot even fathom what that life might entail.

The very detailed list of judicial abuses and self-serving, ideologically-oriented stances taken by the Court can and needs to be presented to the public before the Knesset returns and the legislation is reconsidered.

Let’s be realistic: The protests will continue because the hardcore left smells blood in the water. Their real goal has little to do judicial reform and much to do with bringing down the government. Agreeing to negotiations is a tacit admission of the need for change, which the hardcore left sees as completely self-defeating.

The real hope is that, as they have often done in the past, the hardcore left overplays their hand. By showing the truly concerned, non-ideological protesters what their true agenda is, the hardcore left could further the cause of reform by strengthening the hand of those like Gantz who are interested in finding a solution that promotes the public interest.

Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli summed up the hardcore left’s inflexibility: “The coup d’état laws must be finally and completely scrapped and shelved. Consign this abomination to the dustbin of history.”

Let’s hope that reform proponents seize the day and embark on a campaign to educate, enlighten and open the eyes of Israeli citizens to how much judicial reform is required. We will all be better off for it.

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Netanyahu tells Piers Morgan: ‘Israelis are united in seeing dangers from Iran’
Prime Minister Netanyahu has told Piers Morgan that the international community can help stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon by imposing economic pressures.

"The combination of crippling economic sanctions and credible military threat can hold back Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Without a credible military threat you are not going to stop Iran.”

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Greece averts ‘imminent’ Iranian terror attack against Jews in Athens; arrests made
Greek police have prevented an “imminent attack” against Israelis and Jews in the country after arresting two Pakistani nationals who are part of an Iranian terror network.

The two arrests came after the Greek investigation, aided by Israel’s Mossad spy agency, uncovered plans for mass-casualty terrorist attacks against Israelis and Jews with one of the targets being a Jewish restaurant in Athens.

Click here to read https://www.cufi.org.uk/news/greece-averts-imminent-iranian-terror-attack-against-jews-in-athens-arrests-made/?


https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/more-than-a-shocking-discourtesy?
More than a shocking discourtesy
Britain's Jewish leaders are helping destroy essential Jewish unity
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Israelis in London demonstrate on a Saturday afternoon against Israel's government
Last week, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Rishi Sunak in Downing Street. The visit was important. Netanyahu sought the UK’s support to prevent an increasingly dangerous Iran from gaining nuclear weapons capability.

The Board of Deputies made little mention of his visit. On its website, the visit was almost airbrushed out of last week’s events altogether.

You don’t have to agree with Netanyahu’s judicial reforms, nor with anything that he does, to be appalled by the Board’s behaviour.

Giving him the cold shoulder was not only a shocking discourtesy. It not only diminished his aim to gain urgent backing against Iran. It not only ignored a mission of deep importance to the defence of Israel against an unconscionable threat.

By treating Israel’s democratic prime minister as a pariah — as if he were a tyrant or dictator — it also revealed that the Board has all the acumen of a left-wing agitprop placard.

By contrast, Gary Mond, chairman of the National Jewish Assembly, behaved like the grown-up in the room.

The Assembly, he said, was “delighted” to welcome Netanyahu. The talks were of paramount importance to stop Iran becoming a nuclear power and to promote UK-Israel trade.

The judicial reforms and the Israeli demonstrations against them were “issues for the Israeli government and Israeli citizens to resolve” and it wasn’t the UK’s place to interfere.

The Board’s behaviour also makes a mockery of the Jewish leadership’s professed concern that certain Israeli politicians promote hatred and division. The Chief Rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, wrote pointedly in the JC on the eve of Netanyahu’s visit that Jewish unity was a “sacred responsibility — for politicians, leaders, activists” and everyone else. For the Board, however, Jewish unity somehow excludes Netanyahu.

The spectre of community disunity rightly makes Jews shudder. History tells us that when we turn on each other, we open the way for our enemies to destroy us.

In Israel, profound divisions have been on distressing display in three months of mass protests.

Fuelling the hysteria has been secular Israelis’ deep fear of a government-run by Orthodox Jews.

A secular demonstrator contemptuously threw a wad of shekel notes at a group of dancing Charedim. Elsewhere, protesters with faces convulsed in hatred screamed abuse at Orthodox Jews leaving a synagogue.

Demonstrators marched through ultra-orthodox Bnei Brak in what looked like a deliberate provocation — only to be met with cakes and drinks. One protester was so moved by the residents singing “shalom aleichem” (welcome) that he removed his motorcycle helmet and wept.

Israelis are distraught at the cultural chasm that has opened up. Families and friends have fallen out badly in a collision of two diametrically opposed world views.

One side, fixated on the ultras in the coalition, blames Netanyahu for apparently opening the way to dictatorship and an Iran-style theocracy. They point as proof to Israel’s “heroes”, the elite military pilots who said they would refuse to serve an “undemocratic” government if the reforms passed.

The other side perceives a mob using disruption, violence and intimidation to hold the country hostage to force the democratically-elected government to do what the mob demands. This side views Netanyahu’s pausing the reforms as a surrender to that mob, and the pilots who threatened not to serve are seen as having crossed the ultimate red line and unthinkably undermined Israel in the existential struggle against its mortal foes.

I hold the latter view. However, fears about extremists in the government and the absence of political checks and balances are valid ones.

The essence of the problem is Israel’s dysfunctional political system. Instead of unity, it promotes division. Prime ministers are held to ransom by tiny parties in the coalition.

The Knesset is a rubber stamp for the government. Members of Knesset have no British-style constituencies to pressure them to hold the government’s feet to the fire. There is no second parliamentary chamber to act as a brake.

This is why the protesters see the Supreme Court as the only check on government overreach. They refuse to accept that this is itself profoundly anti-democratic, having replaced the rule of law with rule by politicised lawyers.

Israel’s dysfunctional system has released the demon of “post-democracy” that has escaped throughout the west. This holds that parliamentary representation has failed and street protest is a more legitimate form of democracy. It’s not; it’s a revolutionary doctrine that relies on force and empowers the strong against the weak.

Social cohesion is essential for Israel’s survival. For the past three months, Israel’s enemies have gleefully watched it tear itself apart. They have gloated as Israel’s elite forces turned mutinous. They have rejoiced as the prime minister once famed for his political skills has been laid low by a mob.

Israel has been weakened when it urgently needs to be strong. And all those who have been telling the world that Israel is about to stop being a democracy, and that its prime minister is a putative dictator who should become a political pariah, have unforgivably helped empower the enemies of the Jewish people.

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BIDEN ATTACKS BIBI – BEN GVIR ANSWERS BACK
written by David Mark March 31, 2023 1862 views
Joe Biden attacked Israel on Wednesday, specifically Prime Minister Netanyahu over the judicial reform, most Israelis support.
He said the following:

Biden said that he hoped Bibi drops the judicial reform Netanyahu’s government is pushing. “I hope he walks away from it,” Biden said.

“The Americans need to understand that Israel is an independent state and not another star on the American flag,” said National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. “It needs to be clear to the whole world that the nation here has had an election and it has its wishes.”

Deputy Knesset Speaker Nissim Vaturi of Netanyahu’s Likud Party went further, “There was a case during Operation Protective Edge in which the U.S. decided on an arms embargo on Hellfire missiles for Apache [helicopters], and Israel got by,” he said. “In my opinion, soldiers were killed also because of the quote-unquote American support.”

Vaturi essentially blamed America for the death of Israeli soldiers.

“The question is whether this is a democracy for the U.S. president to come and dictate to us,” he continued. “The U.S. cannot meddle in Israel’s internal affairs. This is a democracy, he shouldn’t force anything on us.”

So far Biden has refused to meet with Netanyahu – making the invitation contingent on compromising with the Israeli left. This is the same Israeli left who is funded by the US state department, CIA, and Soros backed New Israel Fund.

Meanwhile, the US has indicted former President Trump and by doing so turned itself into the very country it claims Bibi is trying to make Israel into – the hypocrisy is clear to all.


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THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S FUNNY IDEA OF DEMOCRACY
written by Mitchell Bard March 30, 2023 1096 views
The U.S. State Department has not called on French President Emmanuel Macron to compromise with protesters in his country or questioned democracy there.

(JNS) We now know that the Biden administration did not have any hesitation about interfering in Israel’s internal affairs. You can see it as either payback for what Democrats believe was Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to undermine former President Barack Obama or just hypocrisy.

In the vein of the old Arabist “America has to save Israel from itself” philosophy, U.S. President Joe Biden has cast himself as standing up for Israeli democracy. Instead, he disrespected it.

Besides weighing in on the side of the critics in the contentious issue of reforming the judiciary, the administration also dissed Israeli democracy for allowing the people’s representatives in the Knesset to pass a law that reversed the prohibition on Jews residing in the area where four settlements were evacuated as part of the disengagement.

Netanyahu released a statement saying the legislation “brings an end to a discriminatory and humiliating law that barred Jews from living in areas in northern Samaria, part of our historic homeland. It is no coincidence that senior figures in the opposition have supported this law over the years.”

“However, the government has no intention of establishing new communities in these areas,” added Netanyahu.

Unwise?

Perhaps. But also a perfectly legitimate exercise of the government’s legislative prerogative.

The U.S. State Department which, given its dominance by Obama retreads, has returned to that era’s habit of publicly chastising Israel. Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel was in high dudgeon over the repeal claiming the law was inconsistent with commitments that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made to President George W. Bush, and urging Israel to refrain from allowing settlers to return to the area. In addition, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog was summoned for a tongue-lashing from the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, retread Wendy Sherman.

This was especially outrageous coming from the former Obama officials who pointedly rejected the contents of the Bush letter to Sharon because they did not like its recognition of the “new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers” and its conclusion that “it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949.”

It was Obama who reneged on the commitments made by his predecessor. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted that “in looking at the history of the Bush administration, there were no informal or oral enforceable agreements.” Now, some of the same people behind the reversal of U.S. policy want to blame Israel for not meeting its obligations after they scuttled the understandings.

Meanwhile, the hypocrisy of the administration was on full display in its response to the proposed reforms to the Israeli judiciary. The reforms themselves may damage Israel’s democracy as critics contend, but the process by which they are being pursued is purely democratic. The officials who were elected by the majority of the Israeli population are proposing legislation they believe is consistent with the mandate they received. Any reform must be approved by a majority vote in the Knesset. It cannot be done by fiat.

What is more democratic?

Contrast the vitriolic administration critique of the mechanisms of Israeli democracy with its total silence on the undemocratic behavior of the president of France. Just as tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in opposition to the government’s position on judicial reform, even larger numbers of French citizens have been protesting President Emmanuel Macron’s unilateral decision to raise the retirement age. The State Department has not called on Macron to compromise with the protesters or questioned French democracy (the same goes for the media, which has been pillorying Netanyahu). Instead of pausing to consider the change in the pension system and agreeing to negotiate as Netanyahu has now done, Macron simply imposed his will through an executive order.

This is the model of democracy Israel should follow?

And who else has resorted to executive orders because he cannot get support from the democratically elected representatives of the country?

Joseph R. Biden Jr.

How is Biden’s circumventing Congress more democratic than Israel’s parliament adopting laws?

Imagine the outrage from the administration if Netanyahu had the power to sign an executive order to change the way judges are selected or limit their authority.

Could there be a more blatant double standard?

According to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, the one used by the State Department, “Applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation” is an example of anti-Semitism.

Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, should be calling out her bosses for such anti-Semitic behavior.

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A ‘RESISTANCE’ COUP JUST DEFEATED ISRAELI DEMOCRACY
written by Jonathan Tobin March 28, 2023 1106 views
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A false narrative about Netanyahu’s “judicial coup” may achieve its goal of toppling him. But more than that, the consequences for future governments and U.S.-Israel relations are ominous.

(JNS) After months of increasingly strident mass protests against his government’s plans to reform Israel’s out-of-control and highly partisan judicial system, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have given in to the pressure. He said he was going to be “delaying judicial reform to give real dialogue a chance.” But it’s highly doubtful that this will merely be a timeout that will help his supporters regroup and enable opponents to calm down and accept a compromise on the issue.

On the contrary, Netanyahu is waving the white flag on judicial reform—and everyone knows it. And since the ultimate goal of the protests was not just preventing legislation from being passed but to topple the government, it’s far from clear whether the prime minister can long stay in power after this humiliation since his allies are shaken and his opponents won’t be satisfied until he’s ejected from office.

Whether that will happen remains to be seen. But the one thing that is clear is that the consequences of the events of the last months go far beyond the future of the Israeli legal system.

Netanyahu’s announcement is leading to celebrations on the Israeli left as well as among their foreign supporters, especially in the Biden administration and liberal Jewish groups. And they have good reason to celebrate. The anti-Bibi resistance was able to sell the world a false narrative about their efforts being nothing more than a successful effort to defend democracy against the efforts of would-be authoritarians who wanted to create a fascist theocratic state.

But the notion that an uprising of the “people” has stopped a “coup” by Netanyahu and his allies is pure projection. What the world has just witnessed was itself a soft coup. Fueled by contempt for the nationalist and religious voters whose votes gave Netanyahu’s coalition a clear Knesset majority in November and imputing to them their own desire for crushing political opponents, the cultural left has shown that it has an effective veto over the results of a democratic election.

In exercising that veto, they have given Israel’s enemies, who don’t care how much power the courts have or who the prime minister of the Jewish state is, ammunition that will make their international campaign to isolate their country more effective.

More importantly, they’ve broken rules and set precedents that will impact future Israeli governments no matter who is leading them. They’ve shown that not even an election can be allowed to break the left’s stranglehold on effective power via a system of courts and legal advisors that have effectively made Israel a juristocracy rather than a country ruled by the representatives of the people. That sends a dangerous message to the people whose votes determined the outcome of the election—that their views don’t matter and that they should lose faith in the ability of political action to have an impact on society.

The opposition didn’t play by the rules

Netanyahu and his fellow coalition members made a lot of mistakes in the last few months. The prime minister was inhibited by an outrageous ruling from the attorney general that effectively silenced him on the most important issue facing his country. Still, by concentrating most of his efforts on trying to rally reluctant Western nations to face up to the threat of Iran, he was distracted from what was going on at home.

He had been criticized for trying to force fundamental change to the justice system via a relatively narrow partisan majority without a national consensus. But those who say this are hypocrites. A left-wing Israeli government forced the disastrous Oslo Accords with an even narrower majority. Democrats like President Joe Biden, who make the same claim, also seem to be forgetting that the Obama administration he served did the same thing with health care despite the lack of a consensus or even making minimal gestures towards compromise.

Given the way his opponents have been willing to go to any length to defame or delegitimize him and even to drag him into court on trumped up flimsy charges of corruption, Netanyahu underestimating his opponents is hard to fathom. Having broken a three-year-long political stalemate by gaining 64 seats in the Knesset to form the first clear majority since he won in 2015, the prime minister somehow thought his foes would play by the rules and let him govern.

He failed to understand that—like the willingness of the American political left to do anything to defeat former President Donald Trump, even if meant dragging the country through three years dominated by the Russia collusion hoax—his opponents were prepared to set the country on fire, destabilize its economy and even weaken its national defense to throw him out. The notion that restraining the power of the court—something that opposition leader Yair Lapid used to support before he realized that latching on to the resistance would give him a chance to erase his defeat last year—was the point of the protests was always false. The same could be said of the claim that preventing the courts from selectively exercising unaccountable power without any basis in law was the end of democracy or the first step towards the creation of a theocratic state.

With the chaos in the streets—with the financial, legal, cultural, media and academic establishments joining with the left-wing opposition—the prime minister already had his back to the wall. But the widespread refusal of many reservists, especially among those with skilled positions such as pilots, to refuse to report for reserve duty threatened the country’s national security. Along with general strikes that forced closures at airports and shutdowns of medical services, that proved to be the last straw and led already shaky members of the coalition to lose heart.

The coalition was slow to mobilize its own voters, who, after all, did outnumber the opposition in the recent election. The government’s supporters were forced to watch impotently as their leaders faltered, feuded among themselves and failed to act decisively to fight the battle for public opinion.

Going forward in the face of a resistance that was ready to trash even the most sacred of Israeli civic traditions involving national defense in order to gain a political victory became impossible. And with his own party losing discipline, and the U.S. government and many leading institutions of American Jewish life similarly backing the opposition, Netanyahu had no choice but to try and prevent any further damage.

Netanyahu has made a career out of repeatedly proving wrong those who have written his political obituary. Still, if the protests continue—and there is no reason to believe they will fully stop until a new election date is set—the government can try to reset the debate as being one about the left’s appetite for power and not their supposed devotion to democracy.

Whether they succeed is not as important as the implications of a political battle in which large numbers of people were prepared to sabotage the country in order to preserve the establishment’s power to determine policy regardless of who wins elections.

Implications for the future

Will that happen every time the right wins an election from now on? Probably. That means not only will the juristocracy defend its power, but its supporters are permanently committed to thwarting the will of voters who may continue to outnumber them in the future.

And how will a theoretical government of the left—assuming, as many now do, that Lapid and his allies can win the next election—react if large numbers of right-wing opponents try to play the same game? If the debate over the disastrous Oslo Accords and the 2005 Gaza withdrawal are any gauge of their behavior, they will crack down on their opponents in ways that Netanyahu hesitated to do this year with widespread jailing of dissidents. Dismissals from the army of those who refuse orders rather than the gentle lectures the anti-Bibi refuseniks got will also be likely.

While the left threatened violence against their opponents and even civil war if they didn’t get their way about judicial reform, who really believes they will hesitate to initiate one if they are in power and the right rises up in the streets the way we’ve just witnessed?

Similarly, the implications for Israel’s foreign relations are equally ominous. The opposition has essentially legitimized American involvement in Israel’s domestic politics even on an issue that had nothing to do with the questions of territory and peace. That weakens the country’s independence at a dangerous time when, as Netanyahu has been trying to point out, the threat from Iran is growing.

What’s more, Netanyahu’s opponents have (whether they realize it or not) also legitimized arguments aimed at denying that Israel is a democracy. While his foes think that this will only apply to times when the right wins elections, they may come to realize that to the antisemites who assail the Jewish state in international forums and in American politics where the intersectional left is increasingly influential, that will also apply to governments led by parties not named Likud.

Ultimately, Israel’s citizens—whether through democratic elections or mob actions that break governments and Knesset majorities—will determine their own fate. And those who look on from abroad must accept the outcome of these struggles and continue to support the Jewish state against its enemies.

Yet far from defending Israel from authoritarian forces, the protesters have established a precedent that will haunt future governments of all kinds and shake the foundation of its democracy. Whether that damage can be undone remains an open question.


WHY DID THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OPPOSE ISRAELI JUDICIAL REFORM?
written by Jonathan Tobin March 29, 2023 288 views
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Ignore Washington’s hypocritical talk about protecting democracy. They want a weak government that won’t make trouble when it comes to Iran, and they won’t stop until they get one.

(JNS) It didn’t play a decisive role in the drama that unfolded in Israel as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to call a halt to his efforts to enact judicial reform. But the Biden administration’s willingness to involve itself in the push to oppose the measure was remarkable for two reasons.

The first is that, as The New York Times noted, Washington made no secret of its efforts to directly intervene in a domestic Israeli dispute in a manner that was almost unprecedented. The second was that the standard by which the administration seems ready to judge its Israeli counterpart is entirely hypocritical and would, if applied to Biden, categorize him as just as much of an “authoritarian” as Netanyahu. Or at least it would if those scurrilous accusations that have been hurled against the Likud-led government by its opponents—and dutifully mimicked by the international media, as well as many Democrats and American Jewish organizations—weren’t entirely false.

But however unpersuasive or politically motivated, what the Times termed a “U.S. pressure campaign” to shelve the reform legislation had nothing to do with a belief in the virtues of Israel’s current judicial system.
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ISRAEL’S POST-DEMOCRACY MOMENT
written by Melanie Phillips March 30, 2023 516 view

The olitical crisis in Israel over the government’s judicial reforms has deepened.

An increasing number of institutions and prominent individuals have called for the changes to be halted. All are deeply alarmed by the enormous demonstrations that they perceive as posing an increasing threat to Israel’s security and the social resilience on which that security depends.

After Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant threatened to call publicly for the reforms to be halted, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on TV to speak to the nation.

The reforms would address fears on both sides, he said. They would broaden the makeup of the Supreme Court, safeguard civil rights for all citizens and reinstate a proper equilibrium between politicians and the judiciary.

This is unlikely to bring much-needed calm to the situation. Israel’s current maelstrom is not in the pattern of normal political protest. It represents an existential upset.

The focus of opposition is the proposed judicial reforms. The protests are also fueled, however, by fear of the nationalist and religious ultras in the governing coalition and by hatred of Netanyahu, who for some people has achieved near-demonic status.
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WATCH: BIBI SCHOOLS WESTERN MEDIA ON JUDICIAL REFORM
written by Micha Gefen March 29, 2023 6207 views
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Bibi was interviewed by Piers Morgan on the uproar surrounding Israel’s Judicial Reform while the Prime Minister was in London. The interview shows why Prime Minister Netanyahu is the best at what he does.

Despite the Left’s international propaganda campaign claiming that Israel’s judicial reform will render it an autocratic state, the Prime Minister was able to skillfully use his interview with Piers Morgan to deflect the unfounded attacks and set the record straight.

Netanyahu proved why the right appeared to be caught off guard regarding the judicial overhaul and also showed why his role, which was denied to him by the attorney general had been sorely needed over the last few months. Of course this was all by design. The leftwing establishment understood that if they could keep Bibi from helping to settle the dispute, they could claim all sorts of things, which they did.

In the coming month it’s critical for the government and the rightwing to sell the reform package to Israelis and the international community in order to neuter the Antifa style protests.


The will of the Jewish people in Israel via our democratically elected government has just been usurped by a tiny, yet powerful minority that hardly anyone is talking about.
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OFFICER’S SHOCKING FIRSTHAND STORY FROM JAN 6 THAT THE MEDIA IS HIDING
written by Phil Schneider March 29, 2023 1695 views
January 6th is a day that will forever be etched into the minds of Americans and people all over the world. It was a tragic day when a rioter or protester lost her life, and many others were wounded. It was a chaotic day – one of the most chaotic days in the history of Washington D.C. And yes, it was Donald Trump’s fault that the riot happened in the first place. But it was not as simple as that. There were a lot of things going on that day, and bit by bit, more and more of what really went on is being revealed.
Everybody knew about the planned demonstration and the ensuing march or riot on the Capitol building. This was anything but spontaneous. Trump may have indeed egged on the demonstrators to march on the Capitol. He certainly treated Mike Pence despicably when Pence refused to heed Trump’s call to reject the election results.

But Donald Trump is not responsible for the lack of sufficient security detail that day at the Capitol. There were definitely some people in the security detail who wanted the chaos to ensue, who egged it on, and were not Trump supporters. Donald Trump’s career in politics was certainly derailed in the 2020 election. But the events of Jan. 6th were the best way to place a permanent label on Donald Trump as a chaos creating force in US politics that is dangerous to the stability of the United States. Allowing the march on the Capitol to become a riot was the best way of destroying Donald Trump’s image with reasonable centrist voters.

The truth is that Donald Trump presidency shook up the United States and the world in many ways – mostly positive. He was perhaps the most transformational President in modern times. When things get shaken up, obviously there will be much resistance and push back. Trump related controversies were the norm during his Presidency. Trump has taught the masses how to turn bad press into a blessing. He spoke his mind without filtering out politically incorrect statements and communicated effectively. It was hard to not love or hate him. His actions, statements and tweets completely dominated the news cycle for nearly five years, from the time he was the front-running candidate until he left office. The blood pressure of the United States definitely rose due to the Trump phenomenon.

Bu make no mistake. He truly left his mark. The American economy experienced major breakthroughs under his tenure and the dangerous dictators of the world stood down while he was at the helm. He was a uniquely effective President. Put simply, Putin, China’s leadership, and North Korea’s leadership were scared of him. Iran was not sufficiently scared of him. But when Trump ordered the attack on the head of their military-terror apparatus, they got the message. Iran was on the way of becoming a non-problem due to Trump’s policies by 2020. Biden’s policies are what reinvigorated the Iranian economy and kept the radical Islamists in power.

Donald Trump was the least boring President in many decades. Sometimes, it is good to have a President who calms the people and the world, like Gerald Ford, following the Nixon Watergate scandal. But in today’s day and age, things are downright scary. All the wrong actors are working together instead of fighting each other. Joe Biden’s Presidency will be remembered as the four years that the world went from stability to the precipice of World War III as Russia and China dangerously worked closely to achieve maximum expansion and domination.

The chaotic norms of Donald Trump’s presidency actually calmed the entire world down as Trump’s unpredictability kept the world leaders on edge. The United States is still the most powerful Army in the world and is indeed the world’s policeman. That is a very good thing. Trump knew this and flexed American muscle effectively and unpredictably. The Democrat leadership is largely against American exceptionalism. That is why the Ukraine, Iran and southeast China are so unstable these days.

If and when the Republicans win the Oval Office again, whether with DeSantis, Pompeo, Haley, or someone else, it will be Trump-inspired policies that will dominate the foreign policies. Donald Trump was not thought of as a heavyweight on foreign policy when he announced his candidacy. What did New York real estate have to do with foreign policy? But, in the end, his legacy may very well involve some major accomplishments on the foreign policy level.