By Peloni
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@Edgar @Peloni
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/04/world/arthur-koestler-and-wife-suicides-in-london.html
Not as hapless as his poor devoted wife who was perfectly healthy but who, with him, belonged to a Euthenasia society.
I remember hearing live a rock group by that name at the Ear Inn in 1979. They were wo ooud, I couldn’t hear anything.
https://youtu.be/3nHeg2icaCw
@Edgar I recall reading that Rabin massacred the Altalena survivors under Ben Gurion’s direct orders but that Ben Gurion later said it was a misunderstanding that led to his giving that order after meeting with Samuel/Schmuel Katz much later.
@Peloni Lapid first came to my attention as a central stumbling block and bad actor when I read that it was he who vetoed the necessary legislation. If Smotrich and Ben Gvir’s gambit is foiled and the pro-Arab veto is not removed, then how else can Israel get out of this vicious circle?
@Sebastien
It is an interesting point you make. The presence of a source of salvation in the form of a well trusted inner cog of the system would effectively evade the obvious claims that the cog is acting capriciously against the system.
In the same light, some judicial advocate or member would be best placed to reform the court. The thing that strikes me most about that premise is that doing so would also allow the court to demonstrate that it alone would have the power to place such controls upon itself, and this is the very problem from which the court currently suffers – a lack of any hint of hubris while exercising an authority over everything including their own authority. In fact, for my own thoughts, the court needs to be shackled, not by an act of internal contrition, which might just as easily be re-reformed to return to its judicial overreaches at a later date by some later version of Barak, but by an officially established check upon their authority as exists in the US. In the US, the elected class are the solitary source of choosing and authorizing the membership of the Supreme Court, while the Court’s rulings can be overridden by passage of legislation or Constitutional amendments to obviate the court’s rulings. In Israel there is no counter to the court’s reach beyond the court’s own will to restrict its reach and its members are incestuously chosen in large part by the input of the legal class who actually are dependent upon the High Court for their rulings.
In fact, he lack of any form of such a check upon their authority has been both the initiating cause while also presenting the the greatest challenge to reform the judicial overreach. Seeing that the High Court holds a view to consider any aspect of law and politics as being within their purview, how can a law authorized by the Knessett to restricting their authority be binding on them – they of course would have to consent. It truly leaves the situation as a catch 22 whereby there needs to be a greater authority to check the power on the court, but the court has to be willing to accept that authority as binding and overriding their own authority.
The purpose of the High Court is to present a semblance of justice and responsibility on matters to prevent the free exercise of tyranny, but the court’s unrestricted exercise of authority to wick its will upon the govt, its members and its policy, presents the very form of tyranny for which the High Court should exercise some form of restraining ruling upon itself. Consequently, as necessary as judicial reform is essential, since the govt will have to legislate against the court while the court perceives that it there is no authority greater than their own, it does seem to lead towards an inevitable showdown between the two branches of power, a constitutional crisis of sorts, despite the incomplete nature of the Israeli constitution, and also because of this same fact.
Hence, your suggestion of needing a Gorbechev jurist, which does bring a curious image to mind, seems the only way to tame this judicial leviathan, even if it is for only the present. Let us hope that the court’s membership is capable of locating such a rational member(s), for failing such an asset, the outcome could be more than a little interesting to follow – it does call to mind the situation when the Macedonian infantry went to war with the Macedonian cavalry following Alexander the Great’s untimely death. The casualties of that conflict were necessarily all Macedonian, veterans and comrades of a long, hard fought journey, all of whom would have profited from seeking out a better, more reasonable path forward than the conflict their egos could not avoid.
@SEBASTIEN-
Yes Rabin was a “hawk” and showed his hawkishness the most openly when he was machine-gunning the poor struggling concentration camp survivors; the non swimmers in the sea when they had to abandon the Altalena that was also bombarded by the “Hawk”
The Champion 140 lb boxer Aaron Pryor was nicknamed “The Hawk”
The very famous Kid Gavilan was also named (The Cuban) “Hawk”.
Neither of them shot off tommy guns, only punches.
@Edgar
Leukemia and Parkinson’s as I recall. A truly gifted man with a truly wild life’s journey from which to share. He was a right to die advocate if my memory isn’t playing tricks on me.
@SEBASTIEN-
Your certainly are in a phunny mood today. You’re smoking some pretty good stuff, I’d bet. Definitely not a Corona Corona………
As for Koestler, the guy was a genius, a most brilliant man with a curious and investigative mind. My recollection is that he was not the only famous figure of the early 1930s who was a Communist and became disenchanted. At that, he was one of the early “leavers’ as we know from the McCarty era and Whittaker Chambers. Not to forget my old pal Alger Hiss..
There were several in our Dublin Community whom I knew well, although they were adults and I was a kid. The big brother of a friend went off to fight against Franco (which I heard about only many years later), and one of our school teachers did the same. (as I also heard much later, long after I finished school)
Yes I remember reading that Koestler committed suicide,(don’t recall his wife) but I think he had some sort of incurable disease.. And he was very old with no hope of recovery.
I may be mistaking him for another but I think that I’m about right.
@Peloni Is it going to ge like a Frank Capra or Steven Spielberg movie, including the Indiana Jones series, in which the people and their champions are always defeated but a Deus Ex Machina taking pity saves the day?
@Peloni And Sharon to relinquish Gaza and Rabin, who had also been a hawk, to perpetrate Oslo.
@Peloni It took Nixon to go to China, Bush to get Israel to relinquish Gaza, De Kloerk to bring down apartheid and Gorbachev then Yeltsin to bring down the Soviet bloc. Does the Israeli Supreme Court have a Gorbachev waiting in the wings? Or will it?
@Edgar
I am glad you had an opportunity to gain a strong understanding of the content Jovan exposed. It is but the first of three reports that he will be exposing in the coming weeks/months. He has explained that the timing of these releases are actually timed to support a greater tactical plan. He notes that this has been an informational war, which in which the media is a plays the role of the opposition’s greatest vanguard. Hence, the timing of the releases of information are, to a degree, manipulated to gain the greatest coverage and broadest effect. Just FYI.
@Sebastien
Brilliant gambit, but even should they succeed in this attempt, it will no doubt fail to survive the intent of the High Court to preserve the Arabs’ continued hold on power within the Knessett.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/356074
@Honey
Yes, she would do well to take lessons from Obama in that department.
Perhaps Blinken representing Biden And Abbas are discussing ties in Haaretz because they are all on the same page?
[Ohhhh, somebody stop me before I pun again. ” Mother of Mercy, is this the end of RICO?” ] That one’s for you, Michael, don’t say I never tossed you anything.
Oh, and Koestler doesn’t sound very hapful to me.
@Edgar Yes, the waiter who came up to me also quoted Koestler to show he wasn’t antisemitic. Koestler not hapless? Well, let’s see, he went from Communist to anti-Communist to Zionist to non or anti-Zionist and then committed suicide together with his wife.
As for the Khazars? Oh, thus such low hanging fruit, i can’t resist.
Sometimes a Khazar – wait for it –
IS JUST A KHAZAR,
@Michael
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/robert-crimo-synagogue-highland-park-b2116893.html
https://nypost.com/2022/07/05/highland-park-parade-shooting-suspect-robert-crimo-kicked-out-of-synagogue/
They are indeed wearihg similar ties in the picture.
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2022-06-30/ty-article/.premium/in-call-blinken-and-abbas-discuss-ties-upcoming-biden-visit/00000181-b5dc-d1dd-a1ab-f5feb8450000
Hi, Sebastien.
In response to yourqueries, the victims
Victims: Irina and Kevin McCarthy, aged 35 and 37, of Highland Park; Katherine Goldstein, 64, of Highland Park; Jacquelyn Sundheim, 63, of Highland Park; Stephen Straus, 88, of Highland Park; and Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, 78, of Morelos, Mexico; The seventh victim died in Cook County and has not been identified by officials there.
Shooter: 21-year-old Robert E. Crimo III
“The suspect allegedly fired more than 70 rounds during what Covelli on Tuesday initially described as a “completely random” attack… the attack was racially or religiously motivated.
“In a video titled “Toy Soldier,” another stick-figure cartoon character resembling Crimo is depicted lying face down on the floor in a pool of his own blood surrounded by police officers with their guns drawn. Another video, from September 24, 2021, showed Crimo III sitting on a set resembling a classroom, wearing a helmet and posing in various scenes while an instrumental arrangement of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” played in the background.”
— https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/us/what-we-know-highland-park-shooting/index.html
Sundheim is explicitly described as Jewish. I haven’t seen any religious description of the others. McCarthy is obviously an Irish name, and Toledo-Zaragoza was Mexican. Crimo is of Italian ancestry.
No motive was discovered, but the attack was planned for a long time. The perpetrator was apparently stirred by (Confederate) Civil War music, and attacked on American Independence Day. Was he a self-styled Southern sympathizer? or a loser just looking for fame? You figure that one out.
@ SEBASTIEN-
Very interesting that you brought up the Khazars.I would regard Koestler as the reverse of “hapless”. No he certainly was NOT. I have “The 13th tribe” and my interest was aroused immediately. In Dublin virtually all the Community were from Lithuania and Latvia. Except for a few English draft-dodgers. There were two families that you’d swear came directly from Kaifeng. totally Asiatic. one family had a kid at school with us whose nickname was “Chinky”.
Anyway, by coincidence I got a newsletter from Kevin Brooks who is the se. of a group which monitors the archaeological excavations at Itil, which was the Khazar Capital. they arrive about twice a year as progress is slow and seasonal.
But it has always been an absorbing interest of mine. We don’t need the ramblings of Michael to tell us what we can find by just looking it up on the Internet. The Khazar content of Ashkenazi Jews and Jews in general is very small, around NIL ,
A geneticist called Behar issued the result of a study which found no identifiable Khazar connection with Ashkenazi Jews. This about about 7-8 years ago I think. I recall the report said that Ashkenazi Jews were closely connected with all other Jews.
Several other studies found that the Kohanim were the most homogeneous.
@Micky https://youtu.be/7qr91dJvbqs
@Michael Yes, the Khazar trope, long championed by antisemites and hapless Arthur Koestler who probably thought Eastern Europeans would hate us less if they thought we had common origins, has long been discredited six ways to Sunday but I’m sure most Jews have never heard of it. Even Israeli papers are always printing bizarre theories about our origins. But, I no longer have such concerns because MyHeritage.com says I’m 2.8 percent Italian, even if the rest is Jewish, so Buena Sera mi amigo, I’m off to sunny Rome to find my roots.
Hello again again, Sebastien. You said,
I think “Khazar” is a term used by antisemites, to try to delegitematize Jewish claims to Israel. Ashkenazi Jews have a respectable amount of yDNA of haplogroup R1a — a group shared by Khazars, Slavs, Norwegians, Turks and others. Apparently, the Khazar Kingdom got along well with Jewish settlers there; and I’m told that the Jews returned the favor by allowing their hosts to become “Levites”. That seems to be a plausible explanation. The “purest” Jewish blood, by far, is that of the Cohanim, perhaps half of whom have yDNA nearly identical to that of their ancestors. Other common Jewish DNA, Sephardic as well as Ashkenazi, reflects mixture with the major peoples of the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and SW Europe. All of this is to be expected, of a people who wandered as widely as the Jews.
Except for the Cohanim, one’s “Jewishness” has little to do with ancestry and everything to do with customs and traditions. At least, this was the case until the “Enlightenment”. Even so, because Jews tend to intermarry with other Jews, nearly all can be assured of ancestral lines on one side or another, that go back to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The legitimacy of Jews settling in Israel was estableshed by Torah, not by genetics. Arabs, of course, can also present legitimate blood lines going back to Ishmael (Arabs often marry their first cousins); but Ishmael was not promised an inheritance in Israel by Hashem.
@Michael The article said it was predominantly Jewish. and so do other articles when I googled, sans quotes, Is Highland Park Predominantly Jewish?
For exampke https://www.jta.org/2022/07/05/united-states/what-you-need-to-know-about-highland-park-the-very-jewish-chicago-suburb-rattled-by-july-4-shooting
https://jewishunpacked.com/highland-park-chicagos-jewish-suburb/
https://www.totallyjewishtravel.com/Kosher_Tours-TL5581-highland_park_illinois-Vacations.html
https://hperuv.org/community
You say it’s Italian. Your source? When I googled: Is Highland Park Italian? All that came up was restaurants, though it’s true they say you are what you eat. Still…
Whatever could have been the shooter’s motive? I’m wracking my brains here.
https://youtu.be/XgTmGIXT8ow
Hello again, Sebastien. You made a comment about the Fourth of July Parade shooter in Highland Park, IL:
I suspect that HP is more Italian than Jewish.The shooter is of Italian extraction, and his father once ran for mayor. The shooting was indiscriminate, so that I doubt he was trying to single out any particual ethnicity. He seemed to be a real nut case; and in shooting up a 4th of July parade, we can assume he wasn’t happy with America, nor with its Christian founders.
@Michael Remember waiter with the Jewish wife trying to comnvince me we are Khazars? If we are Khazars, do we have any claim to Eretz Israel? Get it? Will we support Israel or the Arabs?
@Michael
Not really. If they can get Jews to do their dirty work, so much the better for them. It’s great cover.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/07/05/suspect-in-chicago-july-4-parade-attack-fled-with-crowd-in-womens-clothes/
Hi, Sebastien. You said,
I think you can see why I have trouble with these terms. Concerning “Biden’s” appointments, I doubt that our mentally incompetent president had much say in choosing them. They represent a hodgepodge of Deep State interests and the Progressive agenda. Amazingly (to me), half of them are Jewish and half of the rest have Jewish spouses. — making the current Administration probably the most Jewish in American history, at the same time that it is probably the most anti-Israel Administration since the founding of the Jewish state.
@PELONI-
Thank you indeed. I just went through it. fascinating and definitive. I likes where he said “I don’t supply proofs I supply facts”. he’s very precise in his use of words and meanings.
My viewing had no time-line so I went through it a fraction at a time.
Again Thank you.
Sebastien, if only Ilan could dance.
@Honey https://youtu.be/H1gMQ_q3FSM
@Edgar
It is no bother.
Here is the his presentation at the AZ Senate – skip to 1hr 12min to avoid all the local chit chat and back slapping:
https://rumble.com/v1a992g-the-truth-behind-arizonas-paper-ballots-jovan-pulitzers-bombshell-paper-ana.html?mref=nmtun&mrefc=10
Here are a couple of discussions Jovan conducted after his presentation that does help clarify some things:
https://rumble.com/v1b11a1-cowboy-logic-070322-jovan-hutton-pulitzer.html?mref=nmtun&mrefc=8
and
https://rumble.com/v1ag4y3-devolution-power-hour-episode-67-62922.html?mref=nmtun&mrefc=11
(skip to 35min to the part where Jovan joins the discussion to answer their questions)
@Micharl And some antisemites profess love for Jews and or Israel. I don’t mean you but people like the Jews on that list and all the total strangers who have done up to me out of the blue over the years like the Eastern European waiter at the Plaza hotel who abrupty came up to my chair while I was about to play in a string quartet for a wedding, and after assuring me that he coyldn’t be an antisemite because his wife was Jewish began to rant about how Jews were really Khazars. When I asked him if he approached me because he assumed I was a Jew just by looking at me, he said yes.
Another time, I was sitting at a counter at a pastry shop an old man comes over and starts ranting about Kastner and his train and trial.
I had never heard of these topics which I have since researched. But the point was these – and others too numerous to recall – assumed I was a Jew by race and then set out to turn me against other Jews, pretending to be my friend, out of nowhere, and proceeded to rant as though we had been in the middle of a conversation!
How many young Jews do you suppose are being subjected to this divide and brainwash strategy.?
PELONI-
I am indeed sorry to bother you, but I missed that video of Jovan Pulitzer giving evidence that you posted. Do you think that you could do so again.
I apologise for troubling you.
@Michael It is entitled, “Biden’s Hostile to Israel Appointments” . Hostility to Israel is antisemitic. Jews can be antisemitic and antisemites don’t necessarily hate all Jews. In dact, in my experience, most bigots are inconsistent and make exceptions for people or things they like.
@Michael My bad. I copied and pasted the same link twice. Here’s ZOA’s list of Biden’s antisemitic appointments. Some of them are Jewish and at least 4 are on both lists. There’s even a rabbi. https://zoa.org/biden-appointments-watch/
BoJo Government On Verge Of Collapse After Top Ministerial Resignations
Johnson was as complete of a disappointment as could ever have been elected to high office. His ability to explain and distance himself from a seeming endless line of scandals, some great and some small, seemed to have bought him enough steam to survive the recent call of no confidence, but that later date seems to be arriving sooner than most thought, as he has now lost the confidence of his two senior Cabinet Ministers, and his govt is facing potential collapse. His greatest calling has come to be seen to be the ability to look the proper fop as his govt has routinely exercised gross incompetence in many fields of import, and now at last, it seems we might be seeing a new leader at 10 Downing. A close colleague with greater input on the matter has informed me that Johnson’s success in surviving the revelations of scandals and ineptness was simply due to the lack of anyone appearing more capable to step into his shoes. Yet, it seems that this final measure of protection may soon be tested to reveal if anyone might present themselves as possibly being a greater buffoon than Boris of 10 Downing.
@Ted
Quite well deserved praise. Israpundit fulfills the title it claims to hold with its name, and those of us fortunate enough to have found our way to subscribe to your newsletter can claim no fair reason for not being well informed on a daily basis on issues great and small due to the collection of viewpoints you share, in addition to the content you yourself publish. There is in fact, no higher praise to be offered than to be showered with the truth and the author of the letter you shared has done exactly that. Congratulations, well done, and thank you!
I want to share a letter of commendation I just received.
Sure made my day.
Sebastien. I think Ilan was booed because she has deserted her base for “fame”.
Russia orders Jewish Agency to stop all operations in country – exclusive
Sebastien, you said,
Interesting. cf.
Your article about the almost “endless” war in Ukraine is VERY good and highlighted some VERY important points that are often overlooked in the so-called “legacy” (i.e., usually lying!) media! So, thanks for devoting the space to this important international story!
Ilhan Imar booed by Somali crowd at concert. Fascinating development. Reporter should have asked why. It’s not necessarily obvious. I remember Black leftists being critical of Sharpton but only for not doing enough for African-Americans.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/355958
Danon: I’m very worried by Lapid’s inexperience
Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN tells INN Biden Admin. is taking advantage of new PM to make demands they would not make o fnetanyahu.
Danon: I’m very worried by Lapid’s inexperience
Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN tells INN Biden Admin. is taking advantage of new PM to make demands they would not make o fnetanyahu.