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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.


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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
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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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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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https://www.israelunwired.com/biden-attacks-bibi-ben-gvir-answers-back/?
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O17MPr7qE24&t=1s

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.
We are all being manipulated. Almost nothing we are being told about the judicial reform is true in the media is true. Yet, it is causing tremendous damage to the unity of the Jewish people and the international standing of the Jewish state of Israel.
Do not miss this episode to understand why this is being done and by whom.
For those interested in the audio version or in listening to our long-form interviews at a quicker speed, then best to use one of the podcast services:

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https://www.israelunwired.com/officers-shocking-firsthand-story-from-jan-6-that-the-media-is-hiding/
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.

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YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT THE CHILDREN OF NAZIS ARE DOING ON A FARM IN JUDEA
written by Leah Rosenberg March 29, 2023 404 views
This is truly remarkable. Yes, Jewish history has been filled with difficult times. But we must never ignore the positive moments!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ST1G366QjA
The Ups and Downs of Jewish History

The Jewish people have been around for thousands of years. And when there are that many years in Jewish history, there are going to be both positive and negative times. Life can be difficult, and the story of the Jewish people is filled with difficult moments. Exiles, pogroms, riots, the Holocaust – there were times in Jewish history where we felt defeated.

But the Jewish people never lost faith. They continued building despite their enemies trying to constantly break them. They continued to bring more life into the world despite their enemies hatred of life. They continued to find the positive in the world.

How can we ignore the good that exists? How can we forget about positive times in Jewish history? There are big moments and seemingly small moments. There are times in Jewish history that were good for the Jewish people on a large scale, like the building of the Temples and being so close to G-d. There have been moments like the return to the Jewish homeland after thousands of years of exile. And then there are moments like this one – the children and grandchildren of Nazis helping build up Judea and Samaria and helping build a Chuppah for Jewish weddings. These types of moments matter, too. They bring light to the world. There really are no words for what these Germans are doing to help the Jewish people. This is one of those positive moments that must always be remembered.
These Germans know the importance of Judea and Samaria. Now it’s time for the rest of the world to know as well!

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US SENATOR EXPOSED DEMOCRATS IN A SPEECH THAT LEFT CONGRESS IN SHOCK
written by Phil Schneider March 28, 2023 5618 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.
March 7, 2023: Cotton Condemns Democrats’ Attacks Against Netanyahu
Here is the full speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6sCAS9SjQY&t=1s

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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WATCH: BIBI SCHOOLS WESTERN MEDIA ON JUDICIAL REFORM
written by Micha Gefen March 29, 2023 623 views

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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O17MPr7qE24

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.

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NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN OVER JUDICIAL REFORM
written by Micha Gefen March 28, 2023 2006 views
After weeks of foreign backed demonstrations against needed judicial reform, both sides met at the presidential residence to being negotiations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBX4WAznz4&t=2s

The negotiating team representing the Likud will consist of Minister Ron Dermer, government secretary Yossi Fuchs, and Dr. Aviad Bakshi, the director of the legal department in the Kohelet Policy Forum.

Surprisingly, the architects of the judicial reform package, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Knesset Constitution Committee chairman MK Simcha Rothman, will not be included in the coalition’s negotiating team.

Yair Lapid’s team will comprise MK Orna Barbivay, MK Karin Elharar, a former director of the Prime Minister’s Office, Naama Shultz, and attorney Oded Gazit.

Benny Gantz’s team will consist of MK Gideon Sa’ar, MK Yehiel Tropper, MK Orit Farkash-Hacohen, and attorney Ronen Aviani.

The sides have a limited time to hash out a compromise as Netanyahu’s rightwing cabinet members have given until the Spring session to get the Judicial Reform passed.

https://www.israelunwired.com/judicial-reform-paused-ben-gvir-gives-netanyahu-one-month-to-get-it-passed/?
JUDICIAL REFORM PAUSED, BEN GVIR GIVES NETANYAHU ONE MONTH TO GET IT PASSED
written by David Mark March 27, 2023 2383 views
After a night of violent riots led by State Department funded professionals, Netanyahu faced the daunting task of passing the Judicial Reform package while the country’s elites began shutting down Israel’s ability to function.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McLg5kitfdA&t=2s

Watchman Newscast
From universities to hospitals to the airport, the union bosses began to show Netanyahu what happens when there is an attempt by the rightwing to truly govern. Even Netanyahu’s lawyer threatened to stop representing him if he followed through on the reforms.

By midmorning a decision was made to freeze the reforms until the Knesset’s Spring session. However, most of the cabinet disagreed. Led by Itamar Ben Gvir, the right flank of the government would not support Netanyahu’s decision until Ben Gvir forced the Prime Minister to sign a written agreement that by the Spring session Judicial Reform will be voted on.

So what is really going on?

As I have written before, the leftwing protest movement in Israel is being professionally funded by foreign actors. This is not to say that all the protestors are professionals, but the leadership is certainly being propped up by Biden’s State Department and Soros’ New Israel Fund. Their goal is to topple the duly elected rightwing government. If they are not able to do that then crippling Israel would be a good second goal.

The fact is, the left has been dying for decades in Israel, but they have held onto power by grasping important positions like being the heads of various trade unions, universities, communications companies and running the Supreme Court. Netanyahu first attempted to break them in the early 2000s when he headed up the Finance Ministry. He was largely successful at opening up the economy, but was not able to remove them from other leadership positions.

What we are witnessing in Israel is the clash between two Israel’s – one interested in holding onto power in order to keep their hollow Eurostyle lifestyle going and the other a far more Jewish one that wants to bring Israel to the next level in its development by reinvigorating its soul and character. The first step in doing this, is by taking back the reigns of power and then pushing out foreign influence that has controlled the State for decades.

Netanyahu has one month to figure out how to draw out the protest leaders and crush their organizational structure. By doing so the government will be able to pass each law in the Judicial Reform package on its own. If he cannot do that – Ben Gvir will most likely bolt leaving Netanyahu hanging.

When It Comes to Antisemitism, We’ve Been Here Before

Steven Spielberg is no new to the subject since he has frequently spoken out against antisemitism. The Academy Award-winning director discussed the rise of antisemitism in America and throughout the world in a recent conversation with Stephen Colbert. Antisemitism, according to Spielberg, had never before “stood proud with hands on hips like Hitler and Mussolini, kind of daring us to defy it,” he said.
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https://israfan.com/2023/03/22/brain-cooling-procedure-saves-life-of-filipina-woman-in-israel/
Brain Cooling Procedure Saves Life of Filipina Woman in Israel
March 22, 2023
The latest success story involves the adoption of a brain-cooling method to treat a 46-year-old Filipina lady with a potentially fatal cerebral hemorrhage. Israel is renowned for its groundbreaking medical discoveries. This novel method, which includes freezing brain cells to stop them from dying, worked to save the patient’s life in this instance.

Constant headaches were one of the woman’s symptoms, and her level of hemorrhaging had an 80–100% fatality rate. Nothing seemed to be working, despite the physicians’ attempts with medication, a brain catheter, and surgery. They then made the decision to try chilling the brain, a procedure that had hitherto only been done for resuscitation.

The woman was released after a rigorous rehabilitation process that lasted eight to ten days and eight to ten days of cooling. This success story emphasizes the significance of consistently researching fresh methods of medical care, and the Israeli doctors engaged in this instance deserve praise for their forward-thinking efforts.

The fact that this innovative brain-cooling method offers hope where none previously existed is one of its most amazing features. It gives families who might otherwise have lost a loved one a ray of hope in situations like this one where conventional treatments have failed.

Naturally, this success story is not exclusive to this particular instance. This innovative method will probably be applied in further cases with a similar situation in the future, perhaps saving countless lives. Who knows, though? It might even someday replace surgery as the go-to method for treating brain hemorrhages.

All in all, this is a really exciting development for the medical field and is a tribute to the extraordinary talent and commitment of the Israeli medical community. It serves as a reminder to constantly be open to fresh perspectives, particularly when it comes to situations of life and death.

We should be especially proud of this accomplishment as we are a Jewish journal. From the research and discoveries of Jonas Salk to the ground-breaking work of Israeli scientists and physicians like those engaged in this case, our community has a long and rich history of making contributions to the field of medicine.

This accomplishment is rooted in the Jewish value of pikuach nefesh, or saving a life. No matter their origins or ethnicity, doctors and other healthcare workers devote their lives to enhancing everyone’s quality of life, and we should be grateful for them.

It is encouraging to see people from all nations and cultures working together to have a positive impact in a world where there is so much division and strife. This success story serves as a reminder that we are all a part of a global community and that we are capable of achieving truly amazing things when we work together.

https://www.israelunwired.com/chaos-in-israel-bibi-fires-defense-minister-violent-protests-continue/?
CHAOS IN ISRAEL: Bibi Fires Defense Minister, Violent Protests Continue

Within one day after the now former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant publicly called for pausing the Judicial Reform, Prime Minister Netanyahu fired him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XJuFCJfITc

Gallant never really fit into the Likud. More than that, his policy since the upswing in terror has bordered on negligent. The man to take his place is said to be Avi Dichter, the former head of the Shin Bet, Dichter is seen as further to the right of Gallant as well as fully capable of running Israel’s Defense Forces.

The reaction from Israel’s leftwing and leaders of the current State Department Color Revolution to Gallant’s ouster has been to declare Bibi a dictator and increase in their violent uprising. Violence is increasing on the streets of Tel Aviv and even next to the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem.

Israel’s police force has been told to respond in kind in hopes that it can snuff out the foreign funded riots. So far nothing has helped.

Tomorrow the head of Israel’s national union is said to plan a national strike which could cripple the country.

Netanyahu understands that there is no turning back from the Judicial Reform. The international community has been using Israel’s activist courts for years as a means to control the Jewish State. The only way to truly free the Jewish people from global control is to limit the court’s power. Netanyahu understands this and he also understands that taking down such a “treasured” institution brings the wrath of the revolutionary left against him and the government.

Battle lines are now drawn and without an end to Biden’s funding of the anarchist leftwing uprising – Israel will need to brace itself for chaos it has never seen before.

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LISTEN TO THIS STUNNING PRAYER FOR THE IDF
written by Leah Rosenberg March 24, 2023 1489 views

The IDF is one of the best armies in the world. Yes, they are trained well. But the secret to their success is that G-d protects them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQM8HbmhIco
Praying for the IDF

The only way that the IDF can protect Israel properly is if G-d protects the IDF. And we have to do our part by praying. We have to ask G-d to keep the soldiers of the IDF safe and for them to be successful in their endeavours.

There are different ways to pray. And sometimes, we pray through song. This song is just that – a prayer. The words are beautiful.

We may not all have the ability to physically fight and serve in the IDF, but we all have the ability to pray and speak to G-d.

Translation of the lyrics:

Master of All Worlds, the King to whom peace belongs, On this day on which we escort our child to serve the Jewish People and All Who Dwell In Israel through army service, we throw before You our pleas that You will spread Your canopy of peace upon him/ her and upon all soldiers of the IDF. Grant them the energy, agility, and joy to fulfill the commandment, “the help of Israel from the hands of enemies,” and give them courage, insight, and strength. Protect them from all danger or peril, injury or obstacle, and return them to their homes and families safe and whole, in body and in spirit, and through them may the verse be fulfilled: “It is G-d who girds me with valor, who makes my path perfect.” And may it be manifest through our son/daughter and through all of the IDF: ”G-d will protect you from all evil, He will protect your being; G-d will protect your comings and goings from now through eternity”. Amen.


Sunak and Netanyahu discuss ‘significant concern about Iran’ at Downing Street meeting
Mar 24, 2023 | News
https://www.cufi.org.uk/news/sunak-and-netanyahu-discuss-significant-concern-about-iran-at-downing-street-meeting/
"I will take you as My people, and I will be your God."
Exodus 6:7
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Sunak and Netanyahu meet at Downing Street || UK-Israel sign seven-year trade roadmap || CUFI Prayer

Sunak and Netanyahu discuss ‘significant concern about Iran’ at Downing Street meeting
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has met the UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, in Downing Street where a new UK-Israel trade deal and the threat from Iran were high priority.

Sunak also took the opportunity to express “his solidarity with Israel in the face of terrorist attacks in recent month,” adding, “the UK would always stand with Israel and its ability to defend itself.”
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Two Heavyweights on Israel Explain What Israel's Judiciary Battle is Really About
written by Phil Schneider March 24, 2023 3397 views
How much of Israel’s political turmoil today is about harnessing the power of Israel’s Judiciary? From the right-wing side, it is all about the Judiciary’s unending meddling in every aspect of Israeli society. But for Israel’s left-wing side, it is not merely about defending the power of the Judiciary. It is not even all about trying to bring down Benjamin Netanyahu. It is an attempt to hold on to whatever power the left still has as the State of Israel moves permanently into a more conservative/religious majority.
Ever since Menachem Begin rose to power in 1977, a constant refrain has happened in response to most elections in Israel. A left wing victory leads to an unrealistic hope for peace, while a right-wing victory leads to an unrealistic concern of the right-wing bringing Israel into the dark ages.

If the left wing wins and sets up a government, which has been quite rare, the reports around the world are for a rare window of opportunity for peace in the Middle East. Instead, a left-wing leadership has always led to an explosion of terror across the State of Israel.

When Yitzhak Rabin won the elections in 1992, he along with Shimon Peres presided over the Oslo accords that handed thousands of weapons to Arabs across the State of Israel. Instead of self-policing Arab towns and cities, the Arab policemen turned their guns on Israelis. Basically Israel, with much prodding from the West, funded the Arab terror movement in it’s midst that directly led to thousands of Israelis killed since the arming of Israel’s enemies.

Eight years later, Ehud Barak, another former Chief of Staff of Israel’s Army, won the election and defeated Benjamin Netanyahu. He tried to give away more of the State of Israel’s disputed lands than any other Prime Minister. This also led to an unprecedented wave of terror that Israel is still paying for till today.

But in nearly all of the other elections since 1977, the right wing has won and the anti-Israel and left-wing supporters across the world have gone into a frenzy lamenting Israel’s lurch to the right. Actually, what has happened over the years is nothing more than the natural demographic result of religious and more conservative Jews averaging 6+ children per family while non-religious and less conservative Jews average far less.

The left-wing protesters today are a salad of masses of scared Israelis. They feel that they are losing their country. They are right and wrong. They are right that the State of Israel is becoming more religious and right wing than at any other time in it’s history. For the foreseeable future, there is no reason to think this trend will not continue. But they are wrong in thinking that Israel is becoming less democratic. It is actually becoming more democratic. The problem for the left is that in a democracy, the majority has more power than the minority. Until now, the minority in Israel was able to hold on to as much power as possible due to the interventionist Supreme Court that had no guard rails. Today’s right wing is trying to right this wrong.

The changes in the Judiciary will probably pass, but in a much more gradual way than originally proposed. It will probably be a process that will take years and not months to make the changes necessary. Sometimes the best way to make radical changes is via swift action that may provoke shock and awe and leave one side sorely bruised. But sometimes it is better to use political acumen that utilizes smart timing and an effective marketing campaign to lay the groundwork for popular support of controversial moves.

The best proposal today is probably the idea of a national referendum on changes in the Judiciary. It will bring a meaningful discussion to the fore and allow the losing side to at least feel that they lost in a somewhat fair fight. Today’s politically charged atmosphere is one that is indeed fraught with true danger of a significant minority feeling completely disenfranchised. It would be a mistake to win the battle outright and lose the minds and hearts of 30% of Israel’s population who are losing power every day via unstoppable demographic trends.


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Is The US Leading A Color Revolution Against Israel?
A senior official close to Prime Minister Netanyahu has accused the US of funding the protests against the Judicial Reform Package now up for a vote in the Knesset.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIWRU3_6w7k

“This protest is financed and organized with millions of dollars,” he said.

“We are following what is happening. This is a very high-level organization. There is an organized center from which all the demonstrators branch out in an orderly manner,” the senior official said.

None of this should be surprising. After all, the CIA was directly involved with Ukraine’s color revolution in 2014 that saw the end of Russian backed presidents in Ukraine and has directly led to the current conflict.

The American government has never liked Netanyahu. He has been able to free Israel over the last decade and a half from economic dependency on America and instead charted an independent course for the Jewish State. As wokesim has spread throughout America, Israel’s values have grown more traditional.

While Bibi has not been perfect he has moved Israel beyond the Two State Solution, essentially ensuring that through sheer inertia, no “palestinian” state will arise West of the Jordan.

The current Judicial Reform proposals would end the West’s ability to control Israel from afar, which they have been doing by utilizing compliant court justices. Add on the fact that Netanyahu has resisted joining the West’s war in Ukraine, except for humanitarian assistance, then the Netanyahu government is the greatest target the CIA has right now.

None of this should be surprising. The US has been fomenting unrest across the world for years. The only that is surprising is that they are willing to do it against one of their strongest allies.

https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/israels-post-democracy-moment?
Israel's post-democracy moment
The current maelstrom is about far more than judicial reform
MELANIE PHILLIPS
Israeli demonstration, Tel Aviv; sign reads: “Democracy doesn’t end with elections”.
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 Defence 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 fuelled, 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 programmes 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 recognisably 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 the core principle that 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 prioritise 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 prioritises 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 believe that elections matter. They believe instead that there is a moral objective to policy matters that the left have 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 prioritising 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 civilisation — in a battle for which Israel’s beleaguered government is now revealed to be the unwitting outlier.

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An 11-episode podcast by the BBC’s security correspondent, Gordon Corera, on the 2003 Iraq war has received rave reviews. In Shock and War, Corera brings to fruition what he says has been a 20-year obsession to discover the truth about why the US and UK led a war coalition to remove Saddam Hussein as Iraq’s dictator — and why the consequences were so catastrophic.

The aftermath did indeed go terribly wrong, with a sectarian civil war bogging down the “coalition of the willing” in a bloody quagmire. That Iraq war also ramped up isolationism and pacifism in the west, undermining its willingness to defend itself against aggression — and most ominously, turning it implacably against ever again mounting proactive military action in its own defence.

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Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has met the UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, in Downing Street where a new UK-Israel trade deal and the threat from Iran were high priority.
Sunak and Netanyahu discuss ‘significant concern about Iran’ at Downing Street meeting
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has met the UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, in Downing Street where a new UK-Israel trade deal and the threat from Iran were high priority.

Sunak also took the opportunity to express “his solidarity with Israel in the face of terrorist attacks in recent month,” adding, “the UK would always stand with Israel and its ability to defend itself.”

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ISRAEL’S MOVES IN UKRAINE TRIGGER’S PUTIN’S WRATH
written by Micha Gefen March 24, 2023 1719 views
In a change of policy, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen authorized the sale of defensive weapons to Ukraine.
"Violent Attacks by Israel" | Russia's UN Remarks On Syria Send Message To Netanyahu On Ukraine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDG62R66muk
Jerusalem approved export licenses for two Israeli companies to sell electronic warfare systems with a range of some 40 kilometers (25 miles) that could be used to defend against drone attacks.


“Israel is assisting Ukraine in the defense and civilian fields. Every request is being reviewed according to the defense export policy to Ukraine. We won’t elaborate on that for national security and foreign policy considerations,” the Defense Ministry said.

Russia has continued to sour in its relations with Jerusalem over the latter’s seeming movement towards the Western block on Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly warned Israel not to arm Ukraine. With its coming presidency over the Security Council, Russia could pose a real risk to Israel in both Syria and the arab disputes in relation to its heartland.

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AMERICA, ISRAEL AND THE ERA OF FALSE MESSIAHS
written by Caroline Glick March 23, 2023 1054 views
The U.S. must return to reality as the basis of its foreign policy.

(JNS) On the eve of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq 20 years ago this month, the anticipated war was accompanied by a sense of idealistic triumphalism. It was fueled by a still-righteous rage following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and empowered by the U.S.’s recent early victories over the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The overriding sense of U.S. troops as they gathered in force across the border in the Kuwaiti desert was that they were the great liberators who would free the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein just as their grandfathers liberated Paris from the Nazis.

As an embedded reporter with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division at the time, I can attest that the enthusiasm was infectious and, frankly, inspiring.

But there was a bug in the system that, over time, devoured the system itself. That bug was reality. Americans had told themselves a story about Iraq and Iraqis that had nothing to do with Iraq or Iraqis.

Then-President George W. Bush and his top advisors were guided by an ideology of American messianism. By their lights, all men were latent Americans. Everyone aspired to the same freedoms that Americans enjoyed. Release the people of Iraq from the bondage of Saddam’s tyranny, so the thinking went, and freedom would reign from Nasiriya to Baghdad, Tikrit to Kirkuk, as Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Yazidis—Iraqis all—would join together and build a new American-style free Iraq.

After the initial exhilaration of being welcomed with smiles by Shiites at the sides of the highways, the brutal reality of the real Iraq and the non-universality of American ideals became ever clearer with each passing day. In the end, that reality consumed the American war effort.

Americans responded in different ways to the cold shower they received in Iraq. Some doubled down, clinging to their messianic faith in the curative powers of elections and pushing for repeats of the Iraqi ordeal in Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and beyond.

Others washed their hands of the world, embraced isolationism and said to hell with everyone.

Still others recoiled not from the world outside and its pathologies, but from America, which they blamed for the world’s pathologies. It was those Americans who rose to power in 2009.

Barack Obama was also a messianist. But his messianism was different from that of his neoconservative predecessors. The anti-colonialist worldview Obama shared with his advisors and supporters posited that the real “messiah,” such as it was, wasn’t America, but the “noble savages” of the non-Western world. Left to their own devices, far from American and Western imperialist predations, these non-Westerners were the purest, most authentic form of humanity.

Their violence, anti-Americanism, even their own cultural and military imperialism and war crimes were rooted in and justified by American excesses. The president who for 20 years sat in the pews of the preacher who responded to Sept. 11 by declaring triumphantly that “America’s chickens have come home to roost” could make excuses for everything and everyone opposed to America.

Aside from America itself, the first victim of both the neoconservative messianism and the anti-colonialist messianism was Israel. The Jewish state was the victim of neoconservative messianists because their universalist view of America meant that, from their perspective, there was nothing unique or intrinsically valuable about the Jewish state.

Neoconservatives popularized the notion that the basis for U.S. support for Israel was not their shared Judeo-Christian heritage and values, but the fact that the government of Israel, like the U.S. government, governed with the consent of the governed. Once Iraq was freed of Saddam and his Baathist goons, the neocons insisted that Iraqis would be allies just as good and reliable as the Israelis.

By the same token, there was nothing inherently wrong or negative about the Muslim Brotherhood and its terrorist spawn. As Bush insanely argued after Hamas won the Palestinian elections in 2006, the yoke of governing responsibility and public expectation of services would force the jihadist terror group to abjure terrorism and its dedication to Israel’s destruction and devote its energies to fixing potholes.

Guided by the belief that, like Americans themselves, Israelis, Palestinians, Iraqis, Egyptians and Saudis were all latent Jeffersonians (or, at worst, Hamiltonians), Bush, Condoleezza Rice and their team accepted at face value the pan-Arab claim that Israel is to blame for the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Rather than look at the unique pathologies of Islamism and Arab imperialism, Jew-hatred and tribalism, and understand their role in shaping the societies of the Arab world, the Americans insisted that all things being equal, the Islamic and Palestinian Arab terror war against Israel was distinct from the Islamist terror war against the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Unlike the likes of Al-Qaeda, Palestinian terrorism and rejection of Israel’s right to exist was somehow justified. It had to be. Otherwise, how could the U.S. expect the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world to act like Israelis once they held elections?

The Bush administration’s messianic blinders made it incapable of understanding the significance of Israel’s experience in Lebanon to its experience in Iraq. Had the Americans recognized that Israel is intrinsically their ally because of its shared particularistic values and heritage, and seen as such by its neighbors, Washington would have recognized that the society most similar to Iraq’s was Lebanon, and Israel’s experience in its 18-year war in Lebanon had the most to teach them as they prepared to topple Saddam Hussein.

Had the administration understood the true nature of the multiethnic, traditional, violent society they were entering, they would certainly have developed a different plan for victory than democratizing a land where the values of liberalism are as alien as UFOs.

For neoconservatives, Islamist violence was the product of local tyranny. For anti-Western colonialists, it was the product of American tyranny. In neither case did the American messianists view Islamists as the natural outgrowth of distinct national, religious or tribal cultures and traditions.

This brings us to Obama and Israel. Whereas the neoconservatives didn’t recognize the intrinsic similarity of Jewish-Israeli and American values or understand that those values served as the unique rather than universalist basis for the U.S.-Israel alliance, Obama and his followers did see Israel as a microcosm of America. And just as they recoiled from Americanism for what they viewed as its imperialist chauvinism, so they hated Israel.

Like America, they believed Israel was inherently racist because it was particularist. Just as Native Americans, South Americans, Iranians and others were victims of American “colonialism,” and right to hate it, so the Palestinians were victims of Israeli “colonialists” and justified in their “resistance.”

The neoconservatives’ messianic blindness to reality led to Iraq falling to Iran and Iran rising unopposed by an America sapped of self-confidence by its devastating experience in Iraq.

Obama’s anti-Western colonialist messianism, which has now been restored under President Joe Biden as the ideological basis of American foreign policy, brought about the restoration of Russian power in the Middle East and the rise of a near-nuclear Iran.

It brought revolution and counter-revolution to Egypt and destabilized the Sunni Arab world as a whole for the first time in 90 years, shaking the foundations of American power in the Middle East.

Donald Trump sought to right the ship of American statesmanship in the region and worldwide to one that abjured messianism in favor of national interests. His Middle East policies facilitated the Abraham Accords and the near-collapse of the Iranian economy by the time he left office. Both achievements made clear that he was on to something.

But Trump was stymied and subverted at every turn by his messianic neoconservative and anti-colonialist predecessors and hemmed in by his isolationist supporters. The headway he made was insufficient to withstand the restoration of Obama’s anti-Western messianism under Biden two years ago.

Today, after eight years of neoconservative messianism and 10 years and counting of anti-colonialist, anti-Western messianism, America’s position in the region and the world topples and falls towards destruction.

Obama hated Israel because, to him, the Jewish state is a microcosm of the America he believed was responsible for the wars of the region. He turned against America’s Sunni allies in the Persian Gulf and against Egypt because they viewed the U.S. as a positive rather than negative force in the region.

For failing to hate American power as he did, Obama determined that the Sunni regimes weren’t “authentic” and he worked to destabilize them by supporting the Iranian mullahs and their allies in the Muslim Brotherhood.

Since jihad was a reasoned response to American aggression, so the thinking went and still goes, by empowering jihadists at the expense of Israel and the Sunni regimes, America could convince them to leave America alone or provide it with moral exculpation.

America’s spurned Sunni allies responded to Washington’s betrayal by casting about for other options. First, they turned to Israel. Then they turned to Russia and China. China’s mediation of the Saudi-Iranian dispute is a testament to the Sunnis’ conviction that the U.S. can no longer be trusted.

The report this week that the UAE is considering downgrading its relations with Israel is a testament to the growing sense among the Arabs that Israel is going down with America.

The Biden administration’s open support for the revolt of Israel’s post-Zionist elites seems to support this assessment. Those elites have a long record of scuttling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to develop strategic independence and the means to physically destroy Iran’s nuclear program. Instead, they favor support for U.S.-led nuclear diplomacy and appeasement of the ayatollahs. If Israel will not serve as a counterweight to Iran, then it has no value to the threatened Sunnis.

Israel’s takeaway from a generation of failed U.S. messianism must be that the time has come to end Israel’s strategic dependence on Uncle Sam. A restored alliance can only be based on mutual respect and sovereign independence. The mutinous elites must be brought to heel.

America’s takeaway from its generational flight from reality must be to restore reality to its proper place as the basis for American foreign policy. This doesn’t mean that the mythmakers and dreamers should be sent off to pasture. But the image of America that will rebuild its power and vitality isn’t a crusading banner of universal freedom. It isn’t an LGBT flag with a Black Lives Matter fist in the middle.

A restored America will be one that presents an updated version of the icons of the past—Horatio Alger and the Lone Ranger. Theirs told the story of a free people who persevered and prospered because they were willing to pay the price for freedom. They stood up for themselves and succeeded through hard work, courage and grit.

That was the dream Americans had and the one they shared with the world. If it is restored, America may still return to greatness. If it remains elusive, the American dream for its people and the world will disappear.

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THIS IS WHAT THE ISRAELI LEFT DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW
written by Leah Rosenberg March 22, 2023 2010 views
All it takes is around 2 minutes to show the truth about the Israeli Left and the Supreme Court. These are just the facts.

The Israeli Left is Lying to the World
Do you want to know the truth about Israel’s Supreme Court and its judges? Do you want to know why judicial reforms are absolutely necessary? You don’t even need to watch a long video to understand the issues at hand. This video is only around 2 minutes long. The Israeli Left doesn’t want you to see this video. They don’t want you to know the truth. Some people know the truth, but they are still shouting that judicial reforms will bring an end to democracy (which is beyond absurd). But then there are people – even on the Israeli Left – who might not know the truth. There are protesters who are being told by the leaders of the Israeli Left that everything is being destroyed by the Israeli Right and its proposed judicial reforms. They are being fed a false narrative. And the media goes along with it!

And that is just wrong and immoral.

The Israeli Left and Right can have different opinions. But when one side is shouting lies and bringing the country down, that is not ok. It is terrifying that there are people who are so addicted to power and control that they are willing to bring a country down. It is terrifying that they lie and lie again and don’t care about the truth.

People need to learn the truth about the judicial reforms and what the Israeli Left is trying to do.

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Rabbi Shlomo Katz: The Importance of Celebration & Gratitude in Judaism
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We should always be focused on celebrating what we should be grateful for. Why? And what does that have to do with living with a redemption consciousness? Speaking with Rabbi Shlomo Katz to understand the important Jewish perspective of gratitude and celebration.

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A FASCINATING JOURNEY FROM CHRISTIANITY TO JUDAISM
written by Avi Abelow March 21, 2023 757 views
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Meet LaDerryl and Danielle Hart. They converted from Christianity to Orthodox Judaism. They have a fascinating and unique story that is quite intriguing.


Converting from Christianity to Judaism
It is so fascinating to meet people who convert from Christianity (or any religion) to Judaism. How remarkable is it that others are so enthralled with the beauty of Judaism that they choose to join us, even though Judaism does not proselytize at all and actually discourages people from converting since they don’t have to.

It is not easy being a Jew. I’m not referring to the decades-old Jew hatred that comes with our identity. I’m referring to the responsibility to follow the 613 commandments that G-d gave us in the Torah.

According to the Torah, anyone not born a Jew only needs to keep the 7 Noahide laws. Only Jews are commanded to keep 613 commandments, so there is really no need for someone not born a Jew to convert to Judaism.

According to G-d, they are fine keeping just 7 laws, so why convert to Judaism? Hence, it is so fascinating when people who are told all that, and actually discouraged from converting, still decide to convert to Judaism and join the Jewish people.
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Leaving Christianity for Judaism
Please understand, the reason Judaism does not proselytize, and instead actually discourages people from converting to Judaism, is not because we are trying to be some exclusive club. Not at all. First of all, history is quite clear that it is no picnic being a Jew, there is nothing exclusive about us. However, the more fundamental reason is that our ultimate purpose as the Jewish people following G-d’s Torah is to grow the awareness for all of humanity of worshipping one true G-d. Both Christianity and Islam are younger religions that turned populations of idol worshippers into monotheists, inspired by Judaism and the Jewish people. In essence, the existence of those two religions is proof of the success of Judaism and the Jewish people. Hence, there is no reason for anyone who already believes in one G-d to convert to Judaism.

Returning to the story of LaDerryl and Danielle Hart, it is fascinating to hear how they found their way to Judaism through something as simple as reading the Bible and asking questions. A lot of questions.

It is unbelievable that the Harts totally switched around their entire lives.

It is difficult to completely change your lifestyle and your mindset.

It is also admirable that LaDerryl and Danielle remind those listening that they are not trying to disrespect Christians or Christianity. They are just explaining their own journey in choosing to join the Jewish people.


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Shin Bet busts Palestinian terror cell planning attack in Jerusalem
SHIN BET BUSTS PALESTINIAN TERROR CELL PLANNING ATTACK IN JERUSALEM
written by JNS March 21, 2023 582 views
The cell was recruited and directed by members of the Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli authorities.

(JNS) Israeli security forces have busted a Palestinian terrorist cell planning attacks in Jerusalem, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) revealed Tuesday morning.

According to the Shin Bet, the cell was based in Judea and Samaria and operated under the direction of terrorists in the Gaza Strip. It was uncovered in the past few weeks during joint operations by the Shin Bet, IDF and Israel Police.

The Shin Bet identified the cell’s leaders as Tzabri Mahmoud Eram and Ayman Youssef Khalil Zakkut, both from Rafah in southern Gaza.

The two are members of the Popular Resistance Committees, a coalition of terror groups opposed to the Palestinian Authority and its ruling Fatah faction’s relatively conciliatory approach towards Israel.

The PRC is believed to be financed by Iranian proxy and Lebanon-based Hezbollah.

Eram and Zakkut are accused of recruiting and training terrorists in Judea and Samaria and facilitating the smuggling of weapons to them.

Israeli authorities dismantled the cell before the first planned attack, arresting two terrorists linked to the group. Additionally, two brothers from Judea and Samaria were arrested last month on suspicion of plotting a bombing inside the Green Line.

Meanwhile, the IDF revealed on Monday that the terrorist from Lebanon responsible for the March 13 roadside bombing in northern Israel did not infiltrate the border via a tunnel.

The military did not elaborate or explain how the border was penetrated, saying only that the incident was still being investigated.

The bomb, which was placed behind a barrier on Route 65 near Megiddo Junction some 18 miles southeast of Haifa and 37 miles from the Lebanese border, detonated at around 6 a.m., seriously wounding Shareef ad-Din, 21, a resident of the Israeli Arab town of Salem.

The military has not yet named who it believes dispatched the terrorist, but it is suspected that Hezbollah was involved.

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Is The US Leading A Color Revolution Against Israel?
A senior official close to Prime Minister Netanyahu has accused the US of funding the protests against the Judicial Reform Package now up for a vote in the Knesset.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIWRU3_6w7k&t=1s

“This protest is financed and organized with millions of dollars,” he said.

“We are following what is happening. This is a very high-level organization. There is an organized center from which all the demonstrators branch out in an orderly manner,” the senior official said.

None of this should be surprising. After all, the CIA was directly involved with Ukraine’s color revolution in 2014 that saw the end of Russian backed presidents in Ukraine and has directly led to the current conflict.

The American government has never liked Netanyahu. He has been able to free Israel over the last decade and a half from economic dependency on America and instead charted an independent course for the Jewish State. As wokesim has spread throughout America, Israel’s values have grown more traditional.

While Bibi has not been perfect he has moved Israel beyond the Two State Solution, essentially ensuring that through sheer inertia, no “palestinian” state will arise West of the Jordan.

The current Judicial Reform proposals would end the West’s ability to control Israel from afar, which they have been doing by utilizing compliant court justices. Add on the fact that Netanyahu has resisted joining the West’s war in Ukraine, except for humanitarian assistance, then the Netanyahu government is the greatest target the CIA has right now.

None of this should be surprising. The US has been fomenting unrest across the world for years. The only that is surprising is that they are willing to do it against one of their strongest allies.

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ANOTHER ATTACK IN HUWARA: JEWISH VICTIM SURVIVES BY A MIRACLE
written by David Mark March 20, 2023 2899 views
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Marine Veteran and IDF trainer David Stern was traveling with his wife and three of their children from their homestead just outside Itamar to Jerusalem via Huwara, when an arab terrorist opened fired at point blank range at their car.


The first reports said that David was hit in the head at point blank range. Most people feared the worst. The arab street began to celebrate by handing out candies. Then a miracle happened. Despite the 21 bullets that hit the car, the bullet that hit David Stern grazed the back of his head and entered into his arm. No one else in the car was hit.

Stern not only wrapped a tourniquet around his head, but got out of the car and fired on the terrorist – injuring him. His bravery saved his family and potentially other Jewish drivers in the area. Stern was brought to Bilinson Hospital where the doctors stated that he was in stable condition.

Huwara has become the most dangerous point in all of Israel. Two Jews were killed there more than 10 days ago and now this near assassination. tens of bricks and rocks are thrown there daily and yet the Supreme Court has continuously prevented the IDF from shutting down the village.
Any wonder why the right has been arguing for judicial reform?


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IS THE US LEADING A COLOR REVOLUTION AGAINST ISRAEL?
written by David Mark March 21, 2023 1269 views
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A senior official close to Prime Minister Netanyahu has accused the US of funding the protests against the Judicial Reform Package now up for a vote in the Knesset.
“This protest is financed and organized with millions of dollars,” he said.

“We are following what is happening. This is a very high-level organization. There is an organized center from which all the demonstrators branch out in an orderly manner,” the senior official said.

None of this should be surprising. After all, the CIA was directly involved with Ukraine’s color revolution in 2014 that saw the end of Russian backed presidents in Ukraine and has directly led to the current conflict.

The American government has never liked Netanyahu. He has been able to free Israel over the last decade and a half from economic dependency on America and instead charted an independent course for the Jewish State. As wokesim has spread throughout America, Israel’s values have grown more traditional.

While Bibi has not been perfect he has moved Israel beyond the Two State Solution, essentially ensuring that through sheer inertia, no “palestinian” state will arise West of the Jordan.

The current Judicial Reform proposals would end the West’s ability to control Israel from afar, which they have been doing by utilizing compliant court justices. Add on the fact that Netanyahu has resisted joining the West’s war in Ukraine, except for humanitarian assistance, then the Netanyahu government is the greatest target the CIA has right now.

None of this should be surprising. The US has been fomenting unrest across the world for years. The only that is surprising is that they are willing to do it against one of their strongest allies.

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ISRAEL-HATERS REALLY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE THIS VIDEO
written by Leah Rosenberg March 21, 2023 1495 views
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Israel-haters are furious that this Israeli organization exists. It completely disproves all their theories about the Jewish state!

Israel-Haters Are Trying to Hide the Truth
Why don’t Israel-haters want you to see this video? Because then you’ll know the truth about Israel! You’ll know that Israel is truly a special country that does so much good for the world. Save a Child’s Heart is an unbelievable organization that has saved the lives of thousands of children. Only Jewish children, one may wonder? No! Israel has treated children from all religions and backgrounds. The Jewish state has even treated children from enemy countries. Yes ENEMY countries. Have any Israel-haters told you that? Probably not. Because one simple video like this one proves the haters wrong. It refutes their claims about how Israel is an oppressive country with vicious people.

Israel is not an apartheid state. Israel does not set out to kill people. Israel will protect itself against its enemies, but can anyone expect them to do otherwise? Israel does not target civilians the way its enemies do. In fact, as you see from this video, Israel even treats those civilians and helps them.

Enough of the Israel-haters denying the facts. Enough of the BDS Movement spreading lies about the one and only Jewish state. Let’s show the world how Israel is a place that deserves the world’s recognition for its kindness. Right now, a lot of the world talks about Israel in a negative way based off of lies. It’s time for that to change!

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THIS ARAB LOVES JEWISH PEOPLE – BUT THE REASON WHY WILL BLOW YOUR MIND
written by Leah Rosenberg March 19, 2023 1022 views

What a remarkable story! You will be left in complete awe. Acts of kindness go a long way. Find out why this Arab loves Jewish people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltu-PioKm0

You Won’t Believe Why an Arab in Kentucky Loves the Jewish People
Rabbi Yoel Gold shares unbelievable stories. Can you believe this one? The Divine Providence is so apparent! This Jew driving in Kentucky could have stopped at a different gas station. But G-d made it that he stopped at this gas station – the gas station with an Arab who loves Jewish people.

There are truly many amazing things about this story. It teaches many lessons.

Jews don’t hate Arabs. The story of Moshe the contractor and reserve general shows that. Yes, the Jewish people must defend themselves against the Arabs who try to destroy them and the Jewish homeland. But that doesn’t mean they don’t want to live peacefully with all the other Arabs. And the Arab in this story learned that from Moshe. He learned that from the way the Jewish people acted towards him versus how his own Arab brethren acted towards him.

And not all Arabs hate Jews. There are those Arabs who truly know that the Jewish people are a special nation.

Another important point is how acts of kindness can go a very, very long way. They are remembered forever. 50 years is a long time. And the Arab still felt this love towards the Jewish people.

There really are no words for the events in this story. From start to finish. G-d runs the world. It can sometimes be hard to see His hand in our lives. But if we keep searching Him, we will come across moments that help us see Him.

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FORMER LEADER OF THE POLITICAL LEFT SMASHES THE MEDIA NARRATIVE BY PUBLICLY SUPPORTING THE JUDICIAL REFORM
written by Avi Abelow March 19, 2023 1398 views
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The political left in Israel is continuing to lie to the Israeli public, and the world, that the proposed judicial reform of the Netanyahy government is a dangerous coup that will destroy Israeli democracy.

However, a former leader of the political left, as well as former Justice Minister Chaim Ramon, has thrown a wrench into their inciteful rhetoric and campaign.

In a recent interview with the Hebrew weekly Makor Rishon newspaper, Ramon voiced full support for the judicial reform, showing that it is not only a right-wing, conservative issue. When Ramon was Justice Minister back in 2006 he also tried to bring reform to the justice system, but he was stopped. Surprise, surprise. Not only did Ramon voice support for the judicial reform, he explicitly called out the political left’s stranglehold on the justice system as a way of ruling Israel since they are basically unelectable by the Israeli public! This is from a former leader of the political left himself!

I quote Ramon’s interview in the presentation I gave on the judicial reform in the video below. (Click here for the full presentation)


The political left says that judicial reform is a coup. However, today’s judicial reform is not a coup, it is a clearly articulated legal process for all to see, understand and follow as passed into law. It is trying to undo the undemocratic coup that former Chief Justice Aharon Barak did 30 years ago, when he publicly announced that he was turning basic laws into a quasi-constitution, not voted upon by the Israeli voters or the parliament. He then used that quasi-constitution to implement a judicial activism that today allows the legal system to basically run the country without any checks and balances

How so?

Here are some high-level examples:

1. When politicians make a political appointment that the legal system disagrees with the legal system cancels the appointment.

2. When politicians try to fire someone that the legal system disagrees with the legal system freezes the termination.

3. When right-wing elected governments want to pass laws that the activist-leftist judicial system disagrees with the legal system kills the bill during the legislative process or has the Supreme Court annul the law.

4. When a left-wing elected government makes an international decision without Knesset approval even though according to law it requires Knesset approval the legal establishment approves the deal without problems.

5. While Israeli law forbids terror-supporters from serving in Israel’s parliament the Supreme Court constantly allows terror-supporting Arab Muslim representatives to serve in Israel’s parliament.

Those are just a few of the many examples.

Since we have 30 years of examples of the judicial overreach thanks to the true coup done by former Chief Justice Aharon Barak, tt is extremely unfortunate that the leaders of the political left are today using lies and misinformation to create societal chaos instead of accepting the will of the Israeli public via democratic elections that voted for judicial reform, since all the parties in today’s governing coalition all promised to institute judicial reform.

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YOU’LL BE SURPRISED TO LEARN WHAT IT REALLY SAYS IN ISRAEL’S JUDICIAL REFORM
written by Leah Rosenberg March 16, 2023 2268 views
Israel’s Judicial Reform is making all the headlines – and not only in Israel. But too many people have it all wrong. Here’s the truth.

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The Truth About Israel’s Judicial Reform
This is a perfect example of why you can’t believe everything the media tells you. Just because a platform claims that it is a “news” outlet, it does not mean it is sharing the truth. When it comes to Israel’s judicial reform, the whole world seems to be going crazy. But they are mistaken. Too many people have no idea what it even says in the reform. The Left is making all these dramatic claims about the end of democracy in Israel. But the truth is that Israel’s judicial reform is intended to do quite the opposite. It enables democracy to continue!

Who better to explain Israel’s judicial reform than one of the authors of it? Professor Moshe Koppel is one of the people to go to if you want to understand what the reform actually says.

So, after seeing this video and understanding what the judicial reform is all about, share the truth! Let the world know how their perspective is getting skewed by the lies they see all over the media.

It is okay for people to have different political perspectives and different opinions on issues. But what is not okay is for people to spread lies in order to promote their own view. That does not give the proper chance to others to formulate their own opinion based on the truth and facts instead of lies.

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WHAT THE RIOTING LEFT FAILS TO SEE
written by Caroline Glick March 9, 2023 2352 views
The attempted criminalization of Israel and Jews will continue even if the judiciary’s power is limited.

(JNS) On Sunday, a group of Israeli Air Force reserve F-15I pilots announced that due to their opposition to the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform bills, they would not participate in their squadron’s training mission this week.

It’s hard to know what the pilots thought would happen in response to their declaration, but if they believed the IDF would compel the government to shelve its judicial reform efforts, they received a rude awakening. The very notion that their stunt could succeed is a testament to the Israeli elite’s isolation from the rest of the country. Things look quite different outside their exclusive echo chamber.

The government stood firm. The public was enraged. The pilots’ colleagues were incensed. Thousands of reserve officers, including Air Force pilots, signed petitions demanding that the IDF be left out of the public dispute over judicial reform and pledging to serve under all governments and in all circumstances.

IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi initially angered the public by refusing to publicly condemn the pilots. But on Tuesday, Halevi broke his silence. Halevi read the pilots refusing to serve the riot act behind closed doors, making it clear that if they failed to show up to reserve duty on Wednesday, they would be thrown out of the IAF. On Wednesday, they all showed up. On Thursday, Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar threw the group’s leader, Col. Gilad Peled, out of the squadron.

One of the justifications that leftist retired generals and leftist defenders of Israel’s legal oligarchy more generally give for their refusal to countenance the government’s efforts to place minimal limits on the power of the Supreme Court is that the Court, and the unchecked legal system as a whole, is their shield against international tribunals. With the Palestinians and their international supporters threatening to put IDF warriors—including IAF pilots—in the dock at The Hague, talk of placing checks and balances on the Supreme Court, they insist, is dangerous.

There are two problems with this claim. First, it is wrong. Neither the Supreme Court nor the attorney general protects them from the Palestinians and their supporters. The Goldstone Report from 2010, which falsely accused the IDF of committing war crimes during the 2008-2009 war with Hamas, came out after the Court, the attorney general and the IDF Military Advocate General Corps’ lawyers placed massive, extralegal limits on IDF operations in real time.

The same goes for the legal fraternity’s actions in subsequent operations against Palestinian terrorists in Gaza and Judea and Samaria. The International Criminal Court’s “investigation” of “the situation in Palestine” began well after the Supreme Court, the IDF Military Advocate General Corps, the attorney general and the Justice Ministry were arrogated the power to dictate military policies. The ICC and its anti-Israel prosecutors couldn’t care less what Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and her colleagues and underlings think of IDF tactics or their proportionality.

The second reason judicial reform, and a broader program of legal reform, will have no impact whatsoever on the lawfare campaign against IDF soldiers is that the lawfare campaign isn’t in response to anything Israel does. The purpose of lawfare is to criminalize Israel and present its very existence as a crime against humanity.

The campaign to delegitimize Israel grows more audacious and politically and culturally powerful with each passing day. Last month, I experienced it in Toronto when several anti-Israel activists braved a snowstorm to protest my invitation to speak at a synagogue in town. The placards told the tale. They weren’t opposing “settlements” or “the occupation” of Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. They opposed “Israeli Apartheid.” Israel, their signs said, is “a terrorist state” and I am a “Nakba denier.”

Separately and together, all their messages made clear that they object not to Israel’s size, but its existence. Israel is “racist and Apartheid” because it is Jewish and Jews have no right to self-determination. Israel is a “terrorist state” because it defends itself against Palestinian terrorists committed to its physical annihilation. I am a “Nakba denier” because I am an Israeli patriot. I am proud and relieved that Israel defeated the coalition of Arab states and irregular forces that came together between 1947-1949 in a genocidal bid to destroy the nascent State of Israel.

The “Nakba denial” charge was arguably the claim that should most anger and trouble Jews in Israel, Toronto and worldwide, because as one of the protesters explained in a write-up of the demonstration, its purpose is to silence and demonize not just Israel but its supporters, particularly its Jewish supporters.

“Nakba denialism ought to be taken as seriously as Holocaust denialism,” Paul Salvatori wrote. He then explained how it should be used against local Jewish communities.

“It’s in the Canadian public interest to know that Nakba denialism pervades certain areas of Canadian society, including but not limited to the northern part of Toronto [i.e., the Jewish part of Toronto]. … Such denialism unnecessarily harms any decent society and so Canadians are entitled to know where it exists so they can rightfully challenge it and prevent it from doing further damage,” he claimed.

“Nakba denial” was a new concept for me, but the effort to use demonization of Israel as a means to exclude Jews from the public square is anything but novel. As Tablet magazine laid out in a spate of articles published late last week, the intersectional, racialist pecking order of progressive victimology places Jews in the two worst oppressor categories. Jews are both “Zionists” and “white.” Either one would be enough to push them out of polite society. But the two together make for a toxic mix that has seen Jews increasingly pushed out of all the areas of American life where they have thrived and excelled for decades.

In his article “The Vanishing: The Erasure of Jews from American Life,” Jacob Savage documented how, from Hollywood to the media, from academia to the arts and New York City, the progressives have erased Jews. Not only has Jewish acceptance to elite universities gone down 50% in a decade, Jews are being barred from Hollywood and erased from its history.

One passage from Savage’s article, about the Academy of Motion Pictures’ new museum is particularly stunning: “The new Academy Museum, dedicated to ‘radical inclusivity,’ and paid for with Haim Saban’s Jewish money, couldn’t bring itself to include Hollywood’s Jewish founders. In ‘Babylon,’ Damian Chazelle’s epic flop about Hollywood’s golden age, the director follows an ahistorical Mexican studio executive and an Asian American lesbian rather than any of the very real Jewish moguls or screenwriters or directors of the era. What’s telling isn’t that Chazelle ignored Jews (anyone can do that) but that not a single reviewer bothered to notice this ‘erasure.’ The culture has moved on.”

For Jews keen to remain members in good standing in this new anti-Jewish progressive upper crust, there’s only one choice. If you identify with your victims—whether non-white Americans or, more often, Arabs and their supporters—against the Jews, then you may be able to eke out a place for yourself in the new progressive cultural and political ecosystem.

There were a few Jews among the protesters outside my speech in Toronto and Salvatori made a big deal out of them in his write-up of the event. This makes sense. Jewish Israel-haters are important for those who seek to hound Jews from public life in the West and pave the way for Israel’s physical annihilation by demonizing its very existence.

The first function they serve is that of a fig leaf. Hiding behind Jewish fellow travelers, Jew-haters who seek to define Jews as the anti-nation—the one nation that has no right to nationhood, much less national history and national self-determination—have an easy out from allegations of bigotry. The old line “some of my best friends are Jews” has been transposed to fit the new fashion: “Anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism. Plenty of Jews are anti-Zionists.”

In fact, progressive ideologues insist that Zionism itself is a form of antisemitism because Jews are not a nation and have no homeland. Zionists are genocidal thieves squatting on the Arabs’ land and Zionism is a perversion of the true “Judaism,” which, as anti-Zionist Jews happily proclaim, is really just Marxism with a side of corned beef on rye.

The second function anti-Zionist Jews serve is that of saboteur within the Jewish community. By insisting that the Jews are the villains of their own history, anti-Zionist Jews work to divide communities and confuse their members. For the umpteenth time, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demonstrated how this is done in his latest column, ostensibly about the Israeli left’s rejection of limiting the power of the judiciary.

Friedman’s headline told the tale: “American Jews, You Have to Choose Sides on Israel.” How a leftist columnist gets the nerve to order his fellow Jews around as if they were his servants is an issue worth analyzing in some depth. But suffice it to say that anti-Israel Jews like Friedman believe that it is their duty to act like garden variety antisemitic bullies towards their fellow Jews. As a Jew who has been accepted into the progressive camp by dint of his hostility to Israel and its Jewish supporters, Friedman’s job at the Times is to humiliate his fellow Jews into joining the ranks.

And this brings us back to the pilots, the commandos, the cyber warriors, the high-tech workers, the economists and the yoga instructors who insist that Israel is awful and about to become a tyranny because the government wants to limit the authority of the increasingly post-national judicial oligarchy. Thanks to Israel’s leftist media and progressive universities, for four decades, Israel’s elites have been trained to believe that the war to demonize their country is legitimate. Like their counterparts in the American Jewish community, called on to exculpate their “white guilt” and “Jewish chauvinism,” their problem is that their nation is a gang of “ethno-nationalists” (whatever that is) or that their national liberation movement is a form of “settler colonialism” (whatever that is) or that religious Jews who live in Judea and Samaria are “Judeo-Nazis.”

Like their American Jewish counterparts, who are suddenly awakening to the fact that they are being erased from American life, it is time for Israel’s leftist elites to recognize that their prosperity and success cannot be won by rejecting and disparaging their fellow Jews in Israel and courting favor from the likes of Friedman and The New York Times. It can only be achieved and preserved by joining forces with their fellow Israelis—including the Netanyahu voters they hold in contempt. The only way that pilots, commandos and the rest of Israel’s elite will be safe from enemies committed to their criminalization is if Israel is strong and self-confident. The only antidote to Jew-hatred is Jewish power. Pilots, above all, should be able to understand this.

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WILL RUSSIA SEND TROOPS TO ISRAEL’S DOORSTEP?
written by David Mark March 18, 2023 3238 views
Although the civil war that raged in Syria has more or less ended, Russian presence in that country appears to only have increased.

“We think that expanding the Russian presence in Syria is a good thing,” al-Assad told RIA in an interview published on Thursday. “Russia’s military presence in any country should not be based on anything temporary.”

“We believe that if Russia has the desire to expand bases or increase their number, it is a technical or logistical issue.”

This is a serious issue for Israel. Israel has been trying to stay neutral in the Russia-Ukraine war, but with each move towards Ukraine Israel makes, Russia makes an equal towards Israel’s enemies. The fact is, Putin has always had his sites on Jerusalem. With Syria inviting him to more troops into the country, the stage is set for a possible showdown between Moscow and Jerusalem.

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CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES WILL GIVE GOVERNMENTS TOTAL CONTROL
written by Micha Gefen March 19, 2023 721 views
The next push for global dominance by the World Economic Forum and its allies is what is being called Central Bank Digital Currencies or CBDCs.
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Although CBDCs are being touted as a way to ease one’s life there is a far more sinister plan behind them. A CBDC will give governments the ultimate tool to control what a person can spend their money on and essentially where they can go.

Imagine that a government passes new carbon allowances or wants to manage what people eat, they can literally shut down access to the currency for certain things.

Imagine if a government want to shut down free speech or access to different narratives – they can easily do that with a CBDC. Shut down a person’s money source or their ability to travel and essentially they can stifle free speech with a flick of a switch.

Unfortunately, all of this only the beginning.

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WILL RUSSIA SEND TROOPS TO ISRAEL’S DOORSTEP?
written by David Mark March 18, 2023 3238 views
Although the civil war that raged in Syria has more or less ended, Russian presence in that country appears to only have increased.

“We think that expanding the Russian presence in Syria is a good thing,” al-Assad told RIA in an interview published on Thursday. “Russia’s military presence in any country should not be based on anything temporary.”

“We believe that if Russia has the desire to expand bases or increase their number, it is a technical or logistical issue.”

This is a serious issue for Israel. Israel has been trying to stay neutral in the Russia-Ukraine war, but with each move towards Ukraine Israel makes, Russia makes an equal towards Israel’s enemies. The fact is, Putin has always had his sites on Jerusalem. With Syria inviting him to more troops into the country, the stage is set for a possible showdown between Moscow and Jerusalem.




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WHAT THE RIOTING LEFT FAILS TO SEE
written by Caroline Glick March 9, 2023 2352 views
The attempted criminalization of Israel and Jews will continue even if the judiciary’s power is limited.

(JNS) On Sunday, a group of Israeli Air Force reserve F-15I pilots announced that due to their opposition to the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform bills, they would not participate in their squadron’s training mission this week.

It’s hard to know what the pilots thought would happen in response to their declaration, but if they believed the IDF would compel the government to shelve its judicial reform efforts, they received a rude awakening. The very notion that their stunt could succeed is a testament to the Israeli elite’s isolation from the rest of the country. Things look quite different outside their exclusive echo chamber.

The government stood firm. The public was enraged. The pilots’ colleagues were incensed. Thousands of reserve officers, including Air Force pilots, signed petitions demanding that the IDF be left out of the public dispute over judicial reform and pledging to serve under all governments and in all circumstances.

IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi initially angered the public by refusing to publicly condemn the pilots. But on Tuesday, Halevi broke his silence. Halevi read the pilots refusing to serve the riot act behind closed doors, making it clear that if they failed to show up to reserve duty on Wednesday, they would be thrown out of the IAF. On Wednesday, they all showed up. On Thursday, Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar threw the group’s leader, Col. Gilad Peled, out of the squadron.

One of the justifications that leftist retired generals and leftist defenders of Israel’s legal oligarchy more generally give for their refusal to countenance the government’s efforts to place minimal limits on the power of the Supreme Court is that the Court, and the unchecked legal system as a whole, is their shield against international tribunals. With the Palestinians and their international supporters threatening to put IDF warriors—including IAF pilots—in the dock at The Hague, talk of placing checks and balances on the Supreme Court, they insist, is dangerous.

There are two problems with this claim. First, it is wrong. Neither the Supreme Court nor the attorney general protects them from the Palestinians and their supporters. The Goldstone Report from 2010, which falsely accused the IDF of committing war crimes during the 2008-2009 war with Hamas, came out after the Court, the attorney general and the IDF Military Advocate General Corps’ lawyers placed massive, extralegal limits on IDF operations in real time.

The same goes for the legal fraternity’s actions in subsequent operations against Palestinian terrorists in Gaza and Judea and Samaria. The International Criminal Court’s “investigation” of “the situation in Palestine” began well after the Supreme Court, the IDF Military Advocate General Corps, the attorney general and the Justice Ministry were arrogated the power to dictate military policies. The ICC and its anti-Israel prosecutors couldn’t care less what Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and her colleagues and underlings think of IDF tactics or their proportionality.

The second reason judicial reform, and a broader program of legal reform, will have no impact whatsoever on the lawfare campaign against IDF soldiers is that the lawfare campaign isn’t in response to anything Israel does. The purpose of lawfare is to criminalize Israel and present its very existence as a crime against humanity.

The campaign to delegitimize Israel grows more audacious and politically and culturally powerful with each passing day. Last month, I experienced it in Toronto when several anti-Israel activists braved a snowstorm to protest my invitation to speak at a synagogue in town. The placards told the tale. They weren’t opposing “settlements” or “the occupation” of Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. They opposed “Israeli Apartheid.” Israel, their signs said, is “a terrorist state” and I am a “Nakba denier.”

Separately and together, all their messages made clear that they object not to Israel’s size, but its existence. Israel is “racist and Apartheid” because it is Jewish and Jews have no right to self-determination. Israel is a “terrorist state” because it defends itself against Palestinian terrorists committed to its physical annihilation. I am a “Nakba denier” because I am an Israeli patriot. I am proud and relieved that Israel defeated the coalition of Arab states and irregular forces that came together between 1947-1949 in a genocidal bid to destroy the nascent State of Israel.

The “Nakba denial” charge was arguably the claim that should most anger and trouble Jews in Israel, Toronto and worldwide, because as one of the protesters explained in a write-up of the demonstration, its purpose is to silence and demonize not just Israel but its supporters, particularly its Jewish supporters.

“Nakba denialism ought to be taken as seriously as Holocaust denialism,” Paul Salvatori wrote. He then explained how it should be used against local Jewish communities.

“It’s in the Canadian public interest to know that Nakba denialism pervades certain areas of Canadian society, including but not limited to the northern part of Toronto [i.e., the Jewish part of Toronto]. … Such denialism unnecessarily harms any decent society and so Canadians are entitled to know where it exists so they can rightfully challenge it and prevent it from doing further damage,” he claimed.

“Nakba denial” was a new concept for me, but the effort to use demonization of Israel as a means to exclude Jews from the public square is anything but novel. As Tablet magazine laid out in a spate of articles published late last week, the intersectional, racialist pecking order of progressive victimology places Jews in the two worst oppressor categories. Jews are both “Zionists” and “white.” Either one would be enough to push them out of polite society. But the two together make for a toxic mix that has seen Jews increasingly pushed out of all the areas of American life where they have thrived and excelled for decades.

In his article “The Vanishing: The Erasure of Jews from American Life,” Jacob Savage documented how, from Hollywood to the media, from academia to the arts and New York City, the progressives have erased Jews. Not only has Jewish acceptance to elite universities gone down 50% in a decade, Jews are being barred from Hollywood and erased from its history.

One passage from Savage’s article, about the Academy of Motion Pictures’ new museum is particularly stunning: “The new Academy Museum, dedicated to ‘radical inclusivity,’ and paid for with Haim Saban’s Jewish money, couldn’t bring itself to include Hollywood’s Jewish founders. In ‘Babylon,’ Damian Chazelle’s epic flop about Hollywood’s golden age, the director follows an ahistorical Mexican studio executive and an Asian American lesbian rather than any of the very real Jewish moguls or screenwriters or directors of the era. What’s telling isn’t that Chazelle ignored Jews (anyone can do that) but that not a single reviewer bothered to notice this ‘erasure.’ The culture has moved on.”

For Jews keen to remain members in good standing in this new anti-Jewish progressive upper crust, there’s only one choice. If you identify with your victims—whether non-white Americans or, more often, Arabs and their supporters—against the Jews, then you may be able to eke out a place for yourself in the new progressive cultural and political ecosystem.

There were a few Jews among the protesters outside my speech in Toronto and Salvatori made a big deal out of them in his write-up of the event. This makes sense. Jewish Israel-haters are important for those who seek to hound Jews from public life in the West and pave the way for Israel’s physical annihilation by demonizing its very existence.

The first function they serve is that of a fig leaf. Hiding behind Jewish fellow travelers, Jew-haters who seek to define Jews as the anti-nation—the one nation that has no right to nationhood, much less national history and national self-determination—have an easy out from allegations of bigotry. The old line “some of my best friends are Jews” has been transposed to fit the new fashion: “Anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism. Plenty of Jews are anti-Zionists.”

In fact, progressive ideologues insist that Zionism itself is a form of antisemitism because Jews are not a nation and have no homeland. Zionists are genocidal thieves squatting on the Arabs’ land and Zionism is a perversion of the true “Judaism,” which, as anti-Zionist Jews happily proclaim, is really just Marxism with a side of corned beef on rye.

The second function anti-Zionist Jews serve is that of saboteur within the Jewish community. By insisting that the Jews are the villains of their own history, anti-Zionist Jews work to divide communities and confuse their members. For the umpteenth time, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demonstrated how this is done in his latest column, ostensibly about the Israeli left’s rejection of limiting the power of the judiciary.

Friedman’s headline told the tale: “American Jews, You Have to Choose Sides on Israel.” How a leftist columnist gets the nerve to order his fellow Jews around as if they were his servants is an issue worth analyzing in some depth. But suffice it to say that anti-Israel Jews like Friedman believe that it is their duty to act like garden variety antisemitic bullies towards their fellow Jews. As a Jew who has been accepted into the progressive camp by dint of his hostility to Israel and its Jewish supporters, Friedman’s job at the Times is to humiliate his fellow Jews into joining the ranks.

And this brings us back to the pilots, the commandos, the cyber warriors, the high-tech workers, the economists and the yoga instructors who insist that Israel is awful and about to become a tyranny because the government wants to limit the authority of the increasingly post-national judicial oligarchy. Thanks to Israel’s leftist media and progressive universities, for four decades, Israel’s elites have been trained to believe that the war to demonize their country is legitimate. Like their counterparts in the American Jewish community, called on to exculpate their “white guilt” and “Jewish chauvinism,” their problem is that their nation is a gang of “ethno-nationalists” (whatever that is) or that their national liberation movement is a form of “settler colonialism” (whatever that is) or that religious Jews who live in Judea and Samaria are “Judeo-Nazis.”

Like their American Jewish counterparts, who are suddenly awakening to the fact that they are being erased from American life, it is time for Israel’s leftist elites to recognize that their prosperity and success cannot be won by rejecting and disparaging their fellow Jews in Israel and courting favor from the likes of Friedman and The New York Times. It can only be achieved and preserved by joining forces with their fellow Israelis—including the Netanyahu voters they hold in contempt. The only way that pilots, commandos and the rest of Israel’s elite will be safe from enemies committed to their criminalization is if Israel is strong and self-confident. The only antidote to Jew-hatred is Jewish power. Pilots, above all, should be able to understand this.

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G-D’S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM IS COMING TRUE BEFORE OUR EYES
written by David Mark February 27, 2023 2053 views

G-d made more than one promise to Abraham. And G-d keeps His promises. Take a look at what’s happening today! Amazing.
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Rabbi Yoel Gold Chanuhka 2022

G-d’s Promise to Abraham
When G-d spoke to Abraham, he made different promises. And of course, G-d keeps His word. This promise to Abraham about making his name great is literally happening. People think there are more Jewish people than there really are.

The Jewish people have a huge responsibility. We are somehow always being scrutinized. We are looked at on the world stage. And if we follow G-d’s word, we set a good example. The world then sees what it means to be part of G-d’s nation.

We must strive to sanctify G-d’s name. The promise to Abraham is real. And we are part of it. We are tasked with bringing G-d into the world.

We are such a tiny percentage of the population. This video proves that people think we have a much, much larger population than we actually do. The only explanation for that is G-d and His promise. It makes no sense that a people who make up 0.2% of the world population are so known. It is irrational that some people think there are hundreds of million of Jews – some even think a billion!

But G-d is true. His word and His Bible are true. And so, here the Jews are. 0.2% of the world. And yet, their name is so, so great. It is truly a remarkable thing. Let’s sanctify G-d’s name and make the Jewish people and the world proud.