ISRAEL (IINO)
Israel’s Weapons Industry In 2023 By Hugh Fitzgerald
July 25, 2023 – In 1948, the Jews of Israel were attacked by five Arab armies. By the end of 1948, thanks to the willingness of Czechoslovakia to sell Israel weapons, the Israeli military possessed some 400 tons of mortars and other heavy machinery, aerial bombs, flamethrowers, explosives, tanks, combat vehicles, as well as 34,500 Mauser rifles, 200 MG 34 machine guns, and 5,040,000 rounds of ammunition. The lesson was clear to the Israelis: never again would Israel allow itself to be so dependent on other countries for its weaponry. There might not be another Czechoslovakia to come to its rescue in the future. And if the “progressive Democrats” have their way, even the United States, Israel’s closest ally, may someday limit military aid to Israel in order to force it to bend to Washington’s will.
Israel’s defense industries have come up with one spectacular advance after another. Israel is now a world leader in drone technology. Its anti-missile defense system, Iron Dome, managed during Operation Arrow and Shield to shoot down 96% of the missiles Israel deemed worth trying to stop; the IDF doesn’t bother trying to intercept missiles that it calculates will land harmlessly in open fields. Its laser-based Iron Beam anti-missile system promises to be even better than Iron Dome, at a fraction of what Iron Dome costs, and should be operational within two years. The Merkava tank, in its latest, fifth, iteration, is judged by many to be among the five best tanks in the world, and the safest for tank crews, which is why some countries prefer it to the more powerful Russian T-14 and the German Leopard.
Israel: Lawmakers Limit Court’s Power Returning Authority to Elected Officials and The People By Pamela Geller
July 25, 2023 – Israel‘s parliament on Monday ratified the first bill of a judicial overhaul sought by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after last-gasp compromise efforts collapsed and failed to ease a constitutional crisis convulsing the country for months.
The amendment is part of broader judicial changes the government announced in January, soon after it was sworn in, which are needed to push back against overreach by a Supreme Court that become too politically interventionist
This is why the left in Israel has been trying to burn the country down. Returning the pwoer to the people and away from leftwing judges.
Israel’s parliament on July 24 approved a law that limits the Israeli Supreme Court’s ability to challenge parliamentary decisions.
The law includes a provision that prevents judges from striking down government decisions on the basis that they’re “extremely unreasonable.” The law taking effect would mean that the Supreme Court wouldn’t be able to review decisions, such as the termination of officials, on grounds of being unreasonable.(more here)
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK) on Monday slammed President Joe Biden’s attempts to influence Israeli politics in the aftermath of a vote that Israel’s governing coalition says is the first step in a sweeping plan to reform the country’s judicial system and that has seen the country rocked by mass protests and divided the global Jewish community.
“Joe Biden’s meddling in Israel’s internal politics is unprecedented and inappropriate,” Cotton said in a statement “He has no business telling one of our most important allies how to govern their own country.”
IT’S A PLANNED COUP by Avi Abelow
July 25, 2023 – While most of the establishment media is reporting the public protest movement in Israel as an anti-judicial reform protest, a recently revealed video from 2020 proves otherwise.
Understand, we all want peace and unity within the Jewish people. But that can’t be achieved artificially by appeasing a side led by leaders feeding a public messages of hate and lies.
As Minister Galit Distal recently commented eloquently following the release of the video of former Prime Minister Ehud Barack from 2020….
Minister Distal:
“I assume that many of you have already been exposed to the video of Ehud Barak from three years ago detailing his master plan in front of a camera:
1. Deliberately ignite civil disobedience.
2. Create a false representation of a danger to Israeli democracy, because it is effective, it speaks to everyone, it is catchy, and it is the only fuel that can ignite a civil war.
3. Invest a lot of money in it, including buying wholesale flags.
4. To reach a situation where there will be floating corpses of Jews slaughtered by other Jews in the river.
5. Kick out Netanyahu and make Ehud Barak prime minister because only he can save the situation.
All this Ehud Barak said in his own words. (video in Hebrew below)
That is the end of the Minister’s post. She wasn’t the only public person who shared this video showing the masses that the whole protest movement we are experiencing was planned years in advance, it was not spontaneous, it is massively funded, and it essentially has nothing to do with protesting the judicial reform.
[Ed.: Author does not correct typos…]
BRINGING GOD BACK TO ZIONISM by Uri Pilichowski
July 24, 2023 – President Herzog’s speech to Congress acknowledged the role played by divine providence in Israel’s success.
(JNS) As he stood in front of a joint session of the U.S. Congress, Israeli President Isaac Herzog must have been more aware of the historic nature of his speech than anyone else in the room.
The Herzogs are the closest thing Israel has to a royal family. President Herzog’s grandfather, Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, was the chief rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine and then Israel. President Herzog’s father, Chaim Herzog, was an Israeli general and Israel’s sixth president. In 1987, President Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli president to speak to Congress.
As President Herzog spoke, he must have been aware that he was also speaking to Israelis back home. The messages he sent were meant as much for Israelis as for Americans.
Herzog brought up many contentious topics, including Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Palestinian terrorism and Israel’s current judicial reform debates. He courageously addressed anti-Israel members of Congress and drew the line at which anti-Zionism crosses into antisemitism.
But I was taken by another aspect of Herzog’s speech. While I am not familiar with his personal life, he is not known as a religiously observant man. Yet throughout his speech, Herzog kept referencing God’s role in the destiny of the Jewish people, the State of Israel and even the United States.
His references to God might have seemed natural the day before when Herzog visited the haredi Yeshiva Gevoah in Lakewood, New Jersey. In front of Congress, however, they were surprising, particularly to those who are interested in the balance between religion and state in Israel and America.
Herzog’s first mention of God was when he quoted his grandfather telling American President Harry Truman that it was, “Divine providence that destined President Truman to help bring about the rebirth of Israel, after two thousand years of exile.”
Israel Passes Justice Reform, Biden Insurrectionists Try to Storm Israeli Parliament, 300,000 Patriots March in Support of Right-Wing Government By Richard Abelson
Jul. 24, 2023 10:30 am – Biden-supported violent insurrectionists tried to blockade the Israeli parliament today to prevent the democratically elected government from passing judicial reform. Old Yeller failed at a last-ditch effort to try and save the Soros-leftist sway over Israel’s Supreme Court. The Knesset passed the most important part of the justice reform.
The patriotic Israeli government coalition voted to remove the Supreme Court’s power to strike down laws and cabinet nominees based on “unreasonableness” today. All 64 members of the ruling coalition voted in favor, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was released from hospital on Monday morning following a pacemaker implant. Opposition lawmakers boycotted the third and final vote – a typical sore loser insurrectionist move. Even Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who had briefly lost his job over his opposition to the justice reform, voted with the coalition.
Radical insurrectionists tried to blockade all four entrances to the Israeli Knesset. Police had to use water cannons and mounted officers to clear the insurrectionists away. At least six were arrested. A leftist extremist was arrested for threatening the life of Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
300,000 patriots demonstrated in support of the government in Tel Aviv Sunday evening, with only 160.000 Leftists gathering in Jerusalem in opposition.
There were “no roadblocks, no harrassment, and the only thing they shouted at the police was “We forgive you, we love you”, wrote Matan Peleg, head of patriotic NGO Im Tirtzu.
Likud government Minister David Amsalem called the massive pro-reform protest an “historic moment in the State of Israel, and another step to ensure the continuation of Israel as a democratic state,“ Jewish Press reported. “For the past six months we have practically accepted a coup d’etat in the State of Israel, including a military rebellion that is taking place in the Israel Defense Forces,” Amsalem said.
White House Resident Joe Biden continued to interfere in Israeli politics with a last-ditch effort to preserve the leftst-Soros domination over Israel via its justice system, telling Democrat party organ Axios that “it looks like the current judicial reform proposal is becoming more divisive, not less.” Biden being an expert on divisiveness, of course.
Israel parliament votes in favor of limiting court oversight amid protests By Madeleine Hubbard
The Knesset voted Monday on the reform’s amendment to the court’s “reasonableness standard.”
July 24, 2023 – 10:40am – Israeli lawmakers voted Monday in favor of limiting the court’s power to block some government decisions despite six months of major protests in the country and pressure from the United States to slow down action on the legislation.
The Knesset, or 120-member Israeli legislature, voted 64-0 Monday on the first part of the judicial reform plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative coalition. The opposition members boycotted the vote, allowing the legislation to pass in its original form.
[Ed.: The Israeli left violently opposes judicial reform saying it will destroy democracy. However, they will not tolerate the democratic process that brought this about! It’s a paradox! There is nothing so sweet as the sound of leftists screaming in the morning...]
How Israel’s Jewish and other media lie to you Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer
A reader needs very serious analytic skills to read a news report (Arutz Sheva, which is posting this, is an exception…). Op-ed.
Jul 24, 2023, 9:20 AM (GMT+3) – This article offers a partial guide to cutting through the lies, deceit, and deceptions of what liars and truth-tellers alike call “Journalism.”
1. The Source: Any article on Judaism, Israel, or other Jewish issues that originates from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) should be assumed ab initio, unless proven otherwise, to be extreme-left-propaganda against normative Orthodox Judaism and against centrist or conservative political perspectives. The same is true for reports and op-eds originating in Forward and often Times of Israel. Also Hebrew publications like Maariv and Yediot Acharonot (Ynet).
Of course, there are exceptions to everything, and even a broken clock is correct twice daily. These publications invariably employ techniques and tactics discussed below. JTA merits extra attention because they send “news” stories to others as a sort-of “Associated Press” news service. When a fine Jewish publication runs a “news” item or op-ed whose leftist or anti-Orthodox bias surprises you, look whether it originated at JTA.
2. Headlines:Compare “100,000 Demonstrate Against Government Efforts to Suppress Court Freedom” with “Thousands at Tel Aviv Demonstration.” Both headlines are assumed accurate. Which seems larger? In this case, the latter demonstration was larger — as many as 200,000 people, possibly 300,000 — but it was for the government’s proposed reform. See?
Try another: Compare “Six Jews and Arabs Killed in West Bank Shootout” with “Israeli Security Forces Kill 2 Hamas Terrorists After 4 Jews Murdered in Terror Attack.” See?
[Ed.: Notice how Dov Fischer stated in the title that Arutz Sheva (Israel National News) is “an exception”. He did this because otherwise, Rochel Sylvetsky, the Editor, would not have published it. She considers herself to be a one-woman Supreme Court! Known to re-write sections of submitted articles to her satisfaction, and then blocking the author if they complained about it… Israel National News (Arutz Sheva) was originally a right-wing media outlet. Today it is still right-wing-ish, but nevertheless a government rag. This was proven since the Gush Katif expulsion and through the COVID-19 scamdemic. Dov Fisher knew this when he wisely worded the title of this article. ‘Nuff said.]
Israel’s nightmare is his secret wish Avraham Greenzweig
‘Bodies of Jews killed by Jews’ is not simply a story that Ehud Barak tends to repeat. His choice of this scenario has a message. Op-ed.
Jul 24, 2023, 9:49 AM (GMT+3) – Avraham Greenzweig is a haredi publicist. This article was translated from Hebrew by Rochel Sylvetsky.
Background information for Anglo readers: A shocking video filmed three years ago which has gone viral after being revealed only last week shows former PM Ehud Barak and selected personages, including defense figures, planning a coup against the elected government during the corona epidemic, using the tactics he is employing today This article begins with his words in the film.
“It is well known that I am not overly humble. Objectively, if, heaven forfend, Bibi disappears one day…and we find ourselves facing deterioration with regard to the Hezbollah or Iran and a socio-economic crisis, and someone has to make hard decisions…then objectively I am more suited than anyone else…in the country to take the driver’s seat.”
[Ed.:
Changes to reasonability standard pass second and third Knesset readings
Knesset approves changes major step in judicial reform, with majority of 64 MKs.
Jul 24, 2023, 3:51 PM (GMT+3) – The Knesset plenum on Monday afternoon approved changes to the reasonableness standard, passing the bill with a majority of 64 Knesset members.
As the bill passed its second and third Knesset readings, opposition MKs yelled, “shame!” and “destruction!”
The reasonableness standard is an amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary, and allows the court to rule against the validity of elected official’s decisions that in a justice’s opinion are beyond the scope of what a reasonable authority would undertake. It passed its first Knesset reading earlier this month, and is now being prepared for its second and third Knesset readings.
Ministers Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism) and Yoav Gallant (Likud) pushed for a last-minute compromise, despite the harsh opposition by ministers Yariv Levin (Likud) and Itamar Ben Gvir (Otzma Yehudit). The two also pushed to delay the legislation for judicial appointments for a period of more than six months.
Related articles:
- Smotrich pushing for last-minute compromise
- Efforts to reach compromise on judicial reform failed
- Herzog: ‘It’s a national emergency. Time for responsibility’
- Netanyahu arrives at Knesset following release from hospital
Intense talks as reform bill heads for final vote; mega firms announce strike By Reuters and ILH Staff
With the country ensnared in its worst domestic crisis in decades, President Isaac Herzog meets Netanyahu in the hospital treating him in hope of closing a deal with less than 24 hours to go before final passage of kay part of the judicial overhaul.
07-24-2023 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was “doing excellently” after an unscheduled pacemaker implant and would on Monday attend a key judicial reform vote that has brought nationwide protests to a boil and stirred calls for compromise.
With the country ensnared in its worst domestic crisis in decades, President Isaac Herzog on Sunday met Netanyahu in the hospital treating him in the hope of closing the rifts between the Coalition and Opposition before the Knesset holds its final plenum vote on a key part of the judicial reform late Monday.
“This is an emergency. Agreement must be reached,” Herzog, who mediated fruitless March-June talks, said in a statement.
The Knesset, where Netanyahu wields a comfortable majority, is due on Monday to hold final readings of a bill limiting Supreme Court powers to overrule some government decisions.
It would be the first reform written into law of a package critics fear aims to curb judicial independence, but which Netanyahu insists are needed for balance among branches of government.
[Ed.: Supreme anti-Torah court’s grip on power is near to being curtailed, so those who hate kedusha riot (cause and effect). It’s not PC to say they are as written, the descendants of the erev rav, so we won’t say that.)
Israel and the New America Caroline Glick
07/24/2023 – On the surface, Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to the White House on Tuesday felt like old times. U.S. President Joe Biden warmly greeted Israel’s ceremonial head of state and repeatedly stated that the U.S.’s commitment to Israel is “ironclad.” Biden mentioned that he spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the day before and arranged a visit for Israel’s actual leader.
So, are we back to normal? Were the last seven months of unprecedented U.S. hostility towards Israel, its elected government, its parliamentary deliberations, its senior ministers and its prime minister a blip on the screen, now undone?
Apparently not. Shortly after Herzog left the White House, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote that Biden met with him at the White House after Herzog departed and claimed that Biden read Netanyahu the riot act in his conversation with the premier on Monday.
Biden did so because of the Netanyahu government’s intention to pass parts of its judicial reform program without the support of its political opponents. The White House also told reporters that Biden didn’t invite Netanyahu to the White House, he just agreed to meet him somewhere.
Setting The Record Straight: Part V: Acclaimed as a Role Model By Alex Grobman PhD.
5 Av 5783 – July 23, 2023 – *Editor’s Note: This is the fifth installment in ‘Setting The Record Straight,’ the most recent series of articles from Jewish Press Online contributor, Alex Grobman, PhD
In the afternoon of Sunday, January 27, 2002, Wafa Idris, a divorced woman, who lived in the Al-Am’ari refugee camp near Ramallah, detonated her bomb outside a shoe store at a bus stop on Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem killing 81-year-old Pinhas Tokatli and wounding more than 100 people. [1]
The attack occurred just below Jaffa Road’s intersection with King George Street, in an area where in the previous 16 months there had been eight bombings or shootings that murdered 28 people, not including the assailants. [2] Her willingness to murder civilians underlined how divisive and tumultuous the region had become. [3]
According to the initial plan, Wafa was not supposed to kill herself along with her victims, yet inexplicably the bomb detonated without warning. [4] The Israel Defense Forces, the Israeli public, and many in the West were surprised, if not entirely stunned by this practically “unprecedented” phenomenon of a Palestinian Arab female suicide. On the other hand, the Arab press, and to a greater extent the Islamic press, were euphoric. “It’s a woman!” hailed al-Sha’ab, an Islamic Egyptian newspaper, in a headline sounding like “It’s a boy!” announcement for the joyous birth of a male offspring. [5]
The Concept a Palestinian Arab Female Suicide Bomber
The concept of a Palestinian Arab female suicide bomber was so unexpected because the idea deviated from the common view of women as being “gentler, softer,” and definitely less inclined to physical aggression than men. In Muslim societies, women are perceived as “timid, modest, and sexually pure, all of which preclude free inter-gender mingling.” They are for the most part restricted to the private domain, where they are at home or with family. Their role is confined to “serving and satisfying their husbands’ needs; and to childbirth and childrearing. They are thus associated with the myth of the gift of life rather than that of death.” These traits and roles are also perceived as a social and religious commandment, which has been both internalized by women and harshly enforced by their social environment. [6]
Trying to sink the boat: The real story of the Exodus Jeff Dunetz
Maybe reading the story of the Exodus can remind us that our real enemies are waiting for us to sink the ship of the Jewish state. Op-ed
Jul 23, 2023, 1:58 PM (GMT+3) – July 18, 1947, a ship carrying Holocaust victims, called The Exodus 1947, arrived at the port of Haifa after being boarded by the British 25 miles from the land of their prayers.
Forget what you saw in the movie “Exodus” Paul Newman wasn’t there, and the British were much more brutal than portrayed in the film. They clubbed, shot, and found other ways to punish their Jewish victims whose only crime was trying to reach the eternal homeland of the Jewish Nation.
Decommissioned in 1946, the ship The President Warfield was bought for $8,000 as scrap by the Western Trading Company (a front for the Haganah, which later became the Israel Defense Forces). Jewish-American Sam (the Banana Man) Zemurray was instrumental in obtaining the ship for the Haganah, which would explain its Honduran registration. It was said that Mr. Zemurray’s United Fruit Company pretty much owned Honduras. President Warfield was refitted in Baltimore and sailed for France on February 25, 1947, where it picked up over 4,500 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and left for the Holy Land.
Still called President Warfield, the ship to become the Exodus 1947 left Sète France sometime between two and four in the morning of July 11, 1947. It flew a Honduran flag and claimed to be headed for Istanbul but was headed for British mandate Palestine. It carried 4,515 passengers, including 1,600 men, 1,282 women, and 1,672 children and teenagers. The Palmach skipper Ike Aronowicz was its captain, and Haganah commissioner Yossi Harel was the commander. The ship was operated by 35 volunteers, primarily American Jews.
5 Arabs charged with abusing disabled haredi man at hospital
Suspects filmed themselves forcing man with mental disability to perform humiliating acts for an hour and a half.
Jul 23, 2023, 3:16 PM (GMT+3) – The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office today (Sunday) submitted to the city’s district court an indictment against five Arab residents of Jerusalem, aged 19-22, after they abused a haredi man at a hospital.
According to the indictment, about two weeks ago, the suspects and the complainant were on the grounds of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital while one of the defendants and the complainant, a person with a mental disability and of Jewish and haredi appearance, were receiving medical treatment at the hospital.
For an hour and a half, the defendants, with full knowledge of the victim’s disability, forced him to do and say humiliating things, including cursing the Jewish people as well as his own sister in Arabic, reciting verses from the Quran, kissing the feet of the abusers, and more.
The defendants recorded these acts on their cell phones and published them, together or separately, on the social networks TikTok and Instagram. Following the widespread publication of the documentation of the abuse of the complainant, the police received many reports about the incident.
[Ed.: If you are in IINO and need to go to the hospital, DON’T GO! The Arabs will get you!]
American Friends of Judea and Samaria: How you can spread the truth on Judea and Samaria
American Friends of Judea and Samaria aims to spread the truth, change the global narrative on the Jewish people’s rights in its homeland.
Jul 20, 2023, 8:00 PM (GMT+3) – American Friends of Judea and Samaria (AFJS) is a new organization which seeks to change the way the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria are viewed by the world. AFJS chairman Rafi Lazerowitz spoke with Josh Hasten, the organization’s Director of PR at the Israel National News – Arutz Sheva studios in Jerusalem.
“We’re an organization that wants to be an educational organization, first and foremost, to change the narrative about what’s really going on on the ground in Judea and Samaria,” Lazerowitz said.
“All my life, I’ve had relationships with people that lived in Judea and Samaria. There were things that just hit me to the core, when there were people that were willing to stop their lives, live in caravans with their families, with four and five kids, just because they ideologically felt that this is our homeland and we have to be here and we have to keep it. Not only for themselves, but for the Jewish nation and all Jewish people around the world,” he explained.
Lazerowitz said that he was “pleasantly surprised” that he visited the Knesset with an AFJS delegation earlier today, even left-wing MKs “were very pro-Judea and Samaria, voiced their opinion about it, had no problem saying it publically, and wished us all the luck in the world.”
Related articles:
- Netanyahu pledges to freeze construction until end of 2023
- ‘Biden expressed concern to Netanyahu about settlement growth’
- ‘A lot of tensions with US are due to my policies’
- Govt. to preserve, develop Judea and Samaria heritage sites
Activists gather in Tel Aviv to support of judicial reform Yoni Kempinski
Hundreds of thousands rallying in Tel Aviv parallel to the anticipated passing of the bill to reduce the reasonableness standard.
Jul 23, 2023, 6:33 PM (GMT+3) – Over 200 thousand supporters of the government’s judicial reform legislation are gathering on Kaplan St. in Tel Aviv for a rally parallel to the expected passing of the bill to reduce the reasonableness standard in its second and third readings in the Knesset.
The demonstrators’ message to the coalition members in the Knesset: “The nation is with you, complete the legislation. 64 seats are not second-class citizens.”
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich addressed the crowd at the right-wing rally in Tel Aviv, stating, “I want to address our brothers and sisters who gathered in Kaplan for many weeks and some of whom are now in Jerusalem – those who oppose the reform – and those pilots and soldiers who called for not reporting for reserve service. At this moment, it is important for me to say to you: I know how you feel.
There are a lot of important things that need to be done, but I know that such complex moves need to be done slowly and with negotiation, so we were also willing to give up and compromise on some of the steps in our reform,” he added.
[Ed.: I’ve heard reports of over 500,000, not 200,000.]
Biden: Netanyahu shouldn’t rush judicial overhaul bill
US President tells Barak Ravid of Axios: Given the range of threats confronting Israel, it doesn’t make sense to rush the reform.
Jul 24, 2023, 12:26 AM (GMT+3) – US President Joe Biden told Barak Ravid of Axios in a statement on Sunday that he is calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to move forward with the planned vote on the Reasonableness Standard Bill, which would limit the use of the judicial doctrine of reasonableness.
From the perspective of Israel’s friends in the United States, “it looks like the current judicial reform proposal is becoming more divisive, not less,” Biden said in the statement.
“Given the range of threats and challenges confronting Israel right now, it doesn’t make sense for Israeli leaders to rush this — the focus should be on pulling people together and finding consensus,” the President added.
The statement comes a day before the Knesset is expected to vote on the second and third readings of the bill.
Related articles:
- ‘I didn’t hear call from Biden admin. to stop the legislation’
- ‘Major changes are best done by trying to build consensus’
- ‘Herzog and I discussed key issues of mutual concern’
- ‘US and Israel to invest $70 million in climate initiative’
Biden on Israel’s proposed judicial reforms: ‘They cannot continue down this road’ BY BRETT SAMUELS
03/28/23 6:20 PM ET – President Biden on Tuesday said he hopes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “walks away from” plans to pursue reforms to the country’s judiciary, which has drawn criticism from U.S. officials and sparked protests and work stoppages in Israel.
“Like many strong supporters of Israel, I’m very concerned, and I’m concerned that they get this straight. They cannot continue down this road,” Biden told reporters after a speech in North Carolina on the economy.
“Hopefully the prime minister will act in a way that he can try to work out some genuine compromise. But that remains to be seen,” Biden added.
Biden said Netanyahu won’t be invited to visit the White House “in the near term.”
Source close to Netanyahu accuses US of funding rallies against judicial overhaul By SHALOM YERUSHALMI
PM’s son shares Breitbart’s claim that State Department funded protest group; senior official says AG ‘irredeemably audacious’ for freezing transfer of Tel Aviv police chief
12 March 2023, 10:54 am – A senior government official traveling in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s entourage on his weekend trip to Italy claimed on Friday without offering evidence that the mass protests against the government’s controversial judicial overhaul were partially funded by the Biden administration.
“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.
A senior government official traveling in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s entourage on his weekend trip to Italy claimed on Friday without offering evidence that the mass protests against the government’s controversial judicial overhaul were partially funded by the Biden administration.
“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.
“Who finances the transportation, the flags, the stages? It’s clear to us,” he said.
Another member of the premier’s entourage confirmed that the senior official was referring to the United States.
Hundreds of Israeli reservists vow to refuse service if judicial overhaul passes By Emily Rose
July 20, 20231:13 AM EDT – JERUSALEM, July 19 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Israeli reservists marched in Tel Aviv on Wednesday threatening to refuse their volunteer service if the government presses ahead with its controversial plan to curb the power of the Supreme Court.
The drive by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s nationalist-religious coalition to strip the court of some of its review powers has triggered mass protests across Israel and stirred deep concern among allies, including the United States.
Protests have intensified as ratification nears, while one cabinet minister said the government could rethink its polarizing drive to overhaul the judiciary if protests escalate.
Protesting reservists from some of the military’s most elite formations including combat pilots and Special Forces units have attracted particular attention, stirring alarm from defence chiefs worried that the protests risk compromising national security.
The Israeli military declined to comment.
[Ed.: As always, the left has it reversed!]
Yes, it is a Coup by Victor Rosenthal
July 23, 2023 – As I write, Israel is undergoing a carefully planned, well-financed, coup d’état.
Its leaders, members of Israel’s elite, including two former prime ministers, military officers, high tech entrepreneurs, media, judges and lawyers, supported by an army of useful idiots, will tell you that it is not a coup. They will say that it’s the government that is trying to effect a revolution, to destroy Israel’s democracy and install a dictatorship or even a theocracy.
They are either fools or lying. To begin with, Israel is not a true liberal democracy today, nor has she ever been one, except perhaps for brief periods. For the first 29 years of her existence, she was ruled by a single party, Mapai, the Labor Party. Her first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, was a virtual dictator. Later prime ministers were chosen from among the Labor apparatchiks, and some of them were incompetent enough to imperil the existence of the state. The opposition, led by Menachem Begin, was entirely shut out.
In 1977, thanks to public disgust over the Labor government’s failure to prepare for the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, and the demographic changes in Israel resulting from the immigration of almost a million Jews forced to flee Muslim countries, Begin’s Likud party received enough votes in an election to form a government, and make him prime minister.
But control of the Knesset didn’t translate into control of the country. The elites that controlled government-owned enterprises, the army, the media, the legal system, the labor unions, the educational establishment, and everything else, did not let go. The “new Israelis,” mostly Mizrachi Jews, but soon to include immigrants from the Soviet Union, Ethiopia and other places, were kept out. I remember a song popular around 1980 about a singer who wanted to appear on the (state-controlled) radio, but was turned down because of his Mizrachi accent.* It wasn’t a joke, even at that late date.
The elites saw the demographic bus coming, and they knew that they had to somehow control the “barbarians” who would soon begin to take over by sheer force of numbers. So in the early 1990s, led by Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak, they engineered a real judicial coup. What was called a “constitutional revolution” vastly increased the power and scope of the Supreme Court, gave quasi-constitutional status to vague laws passed by a small minority of Knesset members, and for the first time enabled the court to overthrow laws passed by the Knesset. A system of legal “advisors,” accountable only to the judicial system, was created, whose “advice” to every ministry and government department is binding. Now, although the “new Israelis” often elect a majority of the Knesset, the elected officials can be blocked from doing anything that the old elites don’t like.
[Ed.: “The only democracy in the Middle East.” (My tuchis!) ‘History repeats itself...’ “There is nothing new under the sun” – Solomon]
Jonathan Pollard on Prison, Torture, Politics, & More! [1:10:14] Tamar Yonah, Israel News Talk Radio
Jul 20, 2023 – He gave information to Israel that was vital to its defense. -Information that America, as its ally, should have given Israel in the first place. How many would die in Israel if they didn’t get this vital intelligence?
Hear Jonathan Pollard’s riveting story about his actions, his arrest, his incarceration, the torture he endured, and his new life as a free man. He shares his life and his personal politics with show host, Tamar Yonah.
“The Tamar Yonah Show” on www.IsraelNewsTalkRadio.com
Please like and subscribe so our hearts and voices are not silenced.
===========================================
An important note from Jonathan Pollard to viewers:
“There was nothing that pained Esther and I more than the fact that we were denied the right to have children. There wasn’t a day we didn’t mourn this loss.”
The late Esther Pollard tied her fate to Jonathan’s, and for three decades fought relentlessly for his release.
Throughout his long years in prison, Jonathan dreamed of the day when he would be able to repay Esther for everything she did for him. Unfortunately, about a year after their arrival in Israel, Esther passed away after a long and courageous battle with cancer.
On the first anniversary of her death, in profound sorrow, and given the fact that he and Esther never had the chance to have children of their own , Jonathan has decided to commemorate Esther’s life and legacy through the establishment of Esther’s Children Center. By strengthening Jewish identity and instilling Jewish values in thousands of children, from toddlers to adolescents, the center will promote Esther’s values on one hand while symbolizing the Pollards’ unfulfilled dream of educating their own children according to these values .
After years in which we felt his pain, prayed for him and fought for his release, this is our opportunity to thank him for all he did.
Together, we will make his dream come true.
Together we will build the Esther Children’s Center
Come join us now. Click here to really make a difference! https://www.charidy.com/pollard?lang=en
[Ed.: There is a very important clue as to the enigma of who Yehonatan Pollard is, starting at 1:05:40, and why he suffered punishment for so long, why he survived it, and why he is alive in Israel today. This brought tears to my eyes and wet my entire face! Just before that section, Yehonatan described exactly why “IINO”, the term that I coined and use, is a true assessment of today’s plight of the Jewish People. That assessment is what should have brought on the wet face five minutes sooner!]
