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Netanyahu approves Aharon Barak as Israeli-appointed judge at hearing in Hague Israel National News
Retired President of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, will represent Israel at hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Jan 7, 2024, 6:33 PM (GMT+2) – The 16th judge in the hearing. Former Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak has been selected as the Israeli-appointed judge to sit on the panel of judges at the hearing of South Africa’s petition against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Minister Gideon Sa’ai responded, “In a moment of truth, the incitement, the defamation, and the delegitimization gave way to international status, to the reputation that has been acquired over decades, to professionalism. I congratulate the Prime Minister and the State Attorney for their correct and accurate decision.”
MK Tally Gotliv responded, “With all due respect, I do not agree that retired President Aharon Barak should be the judge on behalf of the State of Israel at the Hague Tribunal, and even more so at the request of Prime Minister Netanyahu. The one who came out against the government last year and presented it in such a negative light is the one who now represents the country? And this has been done under the auspices of a right-wing government. It is too awful for words.”
The hearing will take place this Thursday in a lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. South Africa is claiming that Israel is “committing genocide in Gaza.”
Israel, which unusually decided to appear at the Tribunal, can be represented at the hearing by up to four representatives. One has already been selected – Prof. Malcolm Shaw, a 76-year-old British Jewish-Zionist jurist. The Ministry of Justice hired the services of Shaw, who is known as a longtime expert in international law.
[Ed.: Aharon Barak will be remembered by his famous last words: “Everything is justiceable,” and “One man’s pornography is another man’s art.” Before he retired as President of the Supreme Court, he thought of himself as the God of Israel. …Mon Dieu! ]
Israel’s President Herzog Shares Documents Revealing Hamas Indoctrinates Palestinian Children at Terror Summer Camps in Gaza (Video) By Margaret Flavin
Jan. 7, 2024 3:40 pm – Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday and revealed a document alledging Hamas terrorists use summer camps for Palestinian children as a method of “promoting the resistance and Jihadi culture.”
The secret document, written in July by Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades, details the terrorist group’s self-proclaimed goals for the summer camps held across the Gaza Strip.
Among the goals listed in the document are to” promote the culture of resistance and the values of Jihad among the children” as well as provide “spiritual, mental and physical preparation of children to serve the resistance in the future” and “to contribute to the militarization of society through training.”
Activities at the camps included shooting practice with simulations of terror attacks and tours of Hamas terror tunnels.
Herzog claims the camps were held inside Hamas-controlled military sites.
Herzog told NBC, “The document clearly shows the spread of the values of ‘jihad’ and ‘resistance’ just means terrorism. It shows how to turn a summer camp into a military exercise…this is taking place all over the Gaza Strip.”
Adding, “We all know summer camps and their goals – we want to give a special experience for children and teens, allowing them to become citizens with freedom, happiness, and joy.”
[Ed.: Terrorist training camps for kids! Isn’t THAT the cat’s meow! Jewish kids instead, learn The Torah that teaches us how to live, and how to handle the decimation of our enemies. They want to die for Allah, and the Jews instead, want to live for Hashem, our Creator. Both of us are Semites. So, either way you cut it, you can only be half-antisemite one way or the other. Which kind of antisemite am I (your Ed.)?]
Hezbollah Threatens Israel with ‘Fighting Without Limits’ by Bob Unruh
Jan. 7, 2024 12:40 pm – Warns of ‘tens of thousands of fatalities within the enemy entity in retaliation’
As the war the Gaza-based Hamas terrorists launched against Israel rages on, with the Israel Defense Forces promising to wipe out that group so its threat does not recur, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah organization is threatening Israel with “fighting without limits.”
The words were documented by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
The threat came in an article by Ibrahim Al-Amin, board chairman of the pro-Hezbollah Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar.
He threatened if Israel initiates a war against Lebanon, Hezbollah will use unconventional weapons.
The comments followed by one day a speech by Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, and warned, “if the enemy is thinking of starting a war against Lebanon, our fighting will be without any limits, rules or constraints.”
Al-Amin charged, “[Nasrallah] did not hide the existence of a serious possibility that the situation on the Lebanese front will deteriorate into a extensive war…
“What has happened in practice is that the rules of the conflict that prevailed before October 7 have collapsed. The enemy is trying to impose new rules, and it is doing so [by means of action] on the ground, not through diplomacy, and based on its perception – which is apparently shared by its American and European allies and even by some Arabs and Lebanese – that the resistance is deterred, otherwise it would have entered the war with all its force from the very first day…”
He continued, “When [Nasrallah] threatened the enemy that, if it started a war against Lebanon the resistance would launch a war on the broadest possible scale, he was in fact telling the enemy, honestly and clearly, that the Lebanese resistance rejects the new rules of the conflict… If the enemy foolishly retaliates against the response of the resistance, it will find itself involved in this extensive war. In this case, [the war] will not have limits of any kind, even if the [Israeli] war on Gaza ends or will be close to ending. For the resistance in Lebanon, whose role is [also] connected to what is happening in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and all the way to Iran, will have the last word.”
He endorsed Nasrallah’s warning that, “[There is need] to prepare for a war without constraints and without limits.”
He said, “The equation will not be ‘a building for a building,’ but rather tens of thousands of fatalities within the enemy entity in retaliation for thousands of fatalities in Lebanon. … You have been warned!”
[Ed.: Take him at his word.]
Senior IDF officer asked: ‘Why weapons taken from 1st response teams in Judea & Samaria?’ Hezki Baruch
IDF representative to the cabinet explained that the reduction of weapons in the region is due to the release of IDF reservists.
Jan 7, 2024, 4:35 PM (GMT+2) – At the cabinet meeting today (Sunday), Orit Strock, Minister for Settlement and National Missions, queried IDF representative to the cabinet, Major General Eliezer Toledano, why weapons given to first response teams in Judea and Samaria are being taken away from them.
Major General Eliezer Toledano responded: “Some of the reservists are being released, and some of them have served in Judea and Samaria, and when they are released, they must deposit their weapons. So, there are fewer weapons in the regional defense area of Judea and Samaria. We can’t have the reservists on unlimited duty.”
Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir said: “We must coordinate these moves so that the number of weapons in Judea and Samaria does not decrease. This is not synchronized with the Ministry of Defense.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed Strock and said: “This is an issue that must be dealt with. We must arm more people.”
Is Israel’s Supreme Court Going to Tear the Country Apart? [52:13] BY GADI TAUB AND MICHAEL DORAN
JANUARY 04, 2024 – The world of Israeli jurisprudence is so surreal that you have to pinch yourself to believe what you see. This week, the country’s Supreme Court first struck down a constitutional amendment, then declared judicial authority to remove a sitting prime minister. Michael Doran and Gadi Taub explain what the judges are up to, and what the consequences may be. Because apart from judicial theory, these decisions have political implications for the war: they threaten to throw Israel back into the controversies about judicial reform that tore the country apart before October 7.
Meanwhile the war may be widening in the north following the assassination of Hamas’s West Bank chief, Saleh al-Arouri. The hit was carried out in Beirut and is widely attributed to Israel.
If the assassination was done by Israel, it might be a message not just to Hamas and Hezbollah, but also to the United States, which is trying to retrain Israel on the northern front.
And finally: Mike and Gadi’s picks for the dumbest takes on the news.
Israel Dog Unit trains rescue dogs and handlers to save lives Israel National News
A special workshop on Friday introduced dog handlers to a series of fundamentals for the use of working dogs in several applications.
Jan 7, 2024, 12:59 AM (GMT+2) – On Friday morning, a special workshop was held at the Israel Dog Unit (IDU) base in Kfar Tapuah in Samaria for trainee trainers from Woof-Dogs Academy. The IDU, a nonprofit specializing in working dogs, shared their experience in canine security and rescue work, and taught the trainers learned how to handle rescue, detection, and cadaver dogs. The workshop included both theoretical and practical lessons.
As part of the theoretical lessons, IDU director Yekutiel Ben-Yaakov lectured on a broad array of topics related to the proper training and deployment of working dogs in the search for missing persons, correct methods to analyze and manage a missing person case, and proper care and training of working dogs from a young age.
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The practical section was held in the Samaria hills near the IDU base, and included demonstrations of working dogs in various roles by IDU volunteers.
Ben-Yaakov commented: “At this difficult time, we are working to train as many operational dogs as possible to respond to any national emergency. We are always happy to host professional trainers, apprentices, and certified handlers, and add them to the circle of rescue forces in Israel, with the aim of saving lives and locating missing people. We wish them success.”
