North Korea

Peloni:  Excellent!

By Ari Bussel

Aharon Barak as guest judge in South Africa v. Israel (Genocide Convention) at the Peace Palace in the Hague, 11 January 2024. Screengrab via Youtube

The Israeli Attorney General is paid by the government, as are her senior lawyers, assistants, secretaries, and many other employees. The government funds her — yet she works to undermine the government in every possible way.

Instead of representing the government, she presents the exact opposite position before the High Court of Justice, forcing the prime minister, ministers, or the government itself to hire and pay for outside lawyers.

Rather than defending the government, she calls for the dismissal of a minister, for crippling sanctions against the prime minister, and even for action against her direct superior – the minister of justice – who dared to file a complaint against the president of the Supreme Court. Perhaps it would be better to simply stop paying salaries to anyone who works against the government instead of faithfully doing their job.

It seems obvious that the High Court of Justice knows how to defend itself and does not require her active assistance.

Perhaps the Court is simply too busy defending Nukhba terrorists and their conditions. Terrorists with blood on their hands became accustomed to extravagant conditions, which included a bakery for fresh, hot, tasty pastries, academic studies, surgeries, conjugal visits, and more and more. But more than anything, they became accustomed to a selection of sex slaves, exactly like in the palaces of ancient Persia, except that the guards they pimped were soldiers—our daughters.

In the eyes of the attorney general, everything the government does, thinks, or decides is “political.” Of course it is—but for her this is grounds to invalidate everything in advance. The very existence of the government is illegitimate in her eyes; therefore, all means are justified, and the goal is to remove the prime minister and his ministers from the world—not merely from office, but from existence.

Is there not one righteous person left in Sodom? Is there not a single Supreme Court justice who does not fear the absolute power of the one who sits at their head, who will rise up and say—this is not how it should be! Justice is not founded on this, certainly not the law, and one must not do these things that are outside the legal framework?

But why would any of these beneficiaries of absolute power, which corrupts absolutely, resist these blatant injustices evident in the full light of day? They are simply waiting their turn to rise to the top, among the elevated elite, the all-powerful rulers of “democratic” State of Israel.

And not only them. Who would have imagined that the President—the son of a President, from the nation’s aristocracy—might actually back his lofty words with action? He constantly calls for unity, discipline, and compromise, yet demands these virtues from only one side. From the other side—his own—there appear to be no obligations at all: not to conscience, not to common sense, not to history, and not to law. For them it is absolute obedience, just like in North Korea.

In Israel, the government does not rule, and therefore there is no chance that change will come through new elections. No matter what the government decides, the attorney general and the High Court of Justice disqualify it through orders and forbid any change. Dismissing the attorney general—forbidden. Allowing judges to select themselves—mandatory, and thus it is done (this is how the president was appointed). Replacing the chief of staff or the head of the Shin Bet—absolutely forbidden. And so on. Too bad the legal experts did not listen to Judge Jeanine, who appeared this week on Fox News and shredded the arguments justifying the very existence of “gatekeepers” who are above the law (she referred to the head of the Federal Reserve).

One core problem is that, unlike in the United States, lawsuits are filed within minutes of government decisions, and the Supreme Court rushes to hear them. In the U.S., most cases never reach the Supreme Court, and those that do arrive only after years of deliberation in lower courts. In Israel, by contrast, the courts eagerly welcome legal petitions and the judges fulfill the “will of the people” with excessive enthusiasm (as long as it concerns activity against the government and the Prime Minister). Do opposition politicians truly fail to understand that this same mechanism can later be used against them? Apparently so. They also fail to grasp that international arrest warrants issued against the prime minister or defense minister would equally apply to every Israeli, because the (false) arguments are identical.

The result is that in Israel there is an automatic veto over the government and the Prime Minister, regardless of what the law says. The High Court of Justice decides. For example, the Minister of Justice has the ability under the law to appoint someone responsible for investigating the former Military Advocate General (is she still holding her Major General rank and receiving pension?), but the High Court will impose restrictions that in practice prevent the Minister from exercising that authority OR from doing what the law permits. The judges nominally respect the law, while neutralizing it through powers never granted to them. Like a dictator who knows his craft, they simply act—and that’s it.

In a sane country, the president would attempt to mediate and restrain the Supreme Court’s unrestrained and limitless power. Instead, the President repeats a simple, catchy slogan: “We must obey the law.” Translated for us—the ordinary people, the captives and the judged—this means: only the Court has the authority, and no one else. This was true with the worst Shin Bet chief in Israel’s modern history, Ronen Bar, and nearly became true with the current chief of staff. Obedience here is not to your superiors—for example, company commander to battalion commander to brigade commander to division commander, or brigadier general to major general.  Here obedience is absolute, without appeal, bypassing all intermediaries, directly to the High Court of Justice!

All the law faculties, all the certified lawyers, the entire system is rotten. If institutions like the Hebrew University fail to recognize a fundamental problem, then we are all in trouble. The voters’ voices are worth nothing at all, so why bother voting? Let Dr. Ahmad Tibi lead; he has a clear vision of what will happen to all of us: Itbah al-Yahud! (Slaughter the Jews!)

We must remember what happened on October 7 and in the two years since: lawyers prevented contact with the enemy and direct action. Thus on that Saturday morning and throughout the entire day, and thus ever since. The Supreme Court takes care of the terrorists and the good Jews who represent them, and the Military Advocate General and the Attorney General take care of the Gazans and Hamas–ISIS: water, fuel, medicines, electricity, food, cigarettes, condoms—what else needed to be transferred to them while they were holding, abusing, raping, starving, and torturing 255 Israelis?

It seems we have gone mad. The prosecutors, lawyers, and judges have taken over the entire system, every single organ of the body, dictating that only they may decide how anything functions. Not the heart, not the liver, not the digestive system—nothing matters, only the temporary rulers. (The analogy fits, because for example three judges ensure that the Prime Minister appears three or four days every week, and “marginal,” inconsequential things like an imminent Iranian attack do not interest them. What would happen if the oxygen supply to the brain were cut off by a decision of three judges and the body, brain-dead, is lying at their feet? That is exactly what they are doing.)

The military advocate general who released selectively edited videos to the media had a ready excuse: she was protecting her staff. If, along the way, she sacrificed all other IDF soldiers by branding them as detainee rapists, so be it. After all, every Israeli from birth is an “IDF soldier,” and therefore—according to this logic—a rapist and a Nazi.

This worldview is, of course, not only that of the Military Advocate General. The Attorney General and the High Court of Justice take the enemy into account more than us, and their justifications echo loudly through the president, son of a former president: If we are not a “democratic” Israel and do not obey the law absolutely, then the nations of the world will not trust us, will not love us, will not tolerate us. Then they will put us on trial, and we will be defenseless. See how wonderful— the High Court of Justice protects us from the nations of the world and their wrath.

How blind can people be to their own ignorance? The world hates us. Facts do not matter. Nothing will protect us except ourselves and the Holy One, blessed be He, who erects His shelter of peace and spreads His wings over us. Of course it is forbidden to mention such a despicable thing in a democratic state (God? Pfui!).

Once there were judges in Israel, in the Supreme Court, who knew the ancient oral traditions and practices thoroughly, who lived by them, whom it was a pleasure to hear, to study their rulings. They acted in the light of justice and Torah—the Torah given to us by Moses, a lamp at our bedside and the foundation upon which Western civilization was founded.  They are gone. Now we have Sodom and Gomorrah.

Whom do today’s judges worship? Professor Aharon Barak. Yet behold that this high priest himself suffered a decisive failure when he had to appear before an international tribunal and sat among judges no less distinguished than himself. The law, common sense, justice—nothing was taken into account. The State of Israel, its leaders, its ministers, its advisers and judges, as well as all its people, had to be found guilty. He returned humiliated, focusing ever since on his domestic subjects. Abroad, he was reduced to his real size; yet in “Democratic” Israel, he remains an inflated balloon filling the entire room.

I witnessed a similar absolute obedience and even greater blindness among the Democrats in the U.S. during Biden’s Presidency. Everyone saw that he was suffering from dementia, but the Democrats, like the famous three monkeys, shut their ears, eyes, and mouths. There were no borders for the U.S. Drugs and slaves and sex slaves flowed freely into the U.S. Billions or trillions of dollars flowed from the public purse into private hands. The U.S. was in a spiral of self-destruction. But then the country rebelled, and the voter decisively demanded: no more.

Yet, in Israel nothing will help until the wings of the Supreme Court are first clipped to a healthy, normal size. Until an entire echelon of officeholders stands trial, so that there will be consequences for their criminality. Until education is refocused on the use of common sense, facts, history, and the values upon which the state was founded.

A revolution is required, and when it happens the people will awaken. Like those boys in the book “Lord of the Flies” when the ship arrived that rescued them to the modern world of sanity and order that was their home.

Perhaps that revolution will originate from within, but it is possible that an external factor like President Trump will be the one to wake us from the current nightmare. Why do I hope this will happen soon? Because October 7 will pale in comparison to what will be done to us if we do not awaken very quickly. For those who forgot, for nine months we were told: there will be no army, there will be no pilots, there will be no reservists, there will be nothing on the day we are called to battle. And what actually happened on that Saturday morning until midday? There truly was nothing. Exactly as the Kaplanists, the prosecutors, the lawyers, and the judges promised. And those who tried to act were restrained. We must not forget that day. And for those who still do not believe, remember Sinwar’s writing, where he described that his decision to invade Israel was due to those nine months, when Israel was at its weakest. That is how it was, and that is how it will be again, if we do not come to our senses immediately—and every moment that passes is against us.

Where are the judges of the past, and the nation from before the declaration of independence and from the early decades of the modern state? Now that an entire generation has experienced a “existential threat,” the time has come to act. The threat has not been removed; it has only intensified and grown stronger. Yet, we have now returned to where we were in the days leading up to October 7.

Professor Barak traveled all the way to Los Angeles to lecture before the law faculty at one of the leading research universities in the U.S. Perhaps the time has come for a dialogue between Supreme Court judges across generations and “the opposing side,” hosted by the President at the President’s Residence? So that both sides raise their arguments and are required to answer the questions of the opposing side. Without threats or curses or bloodletting. With the entire state watching (and perhaps even participating). If this is done in good spirit, with the hope of healing and bridging, perhaps—just perhaps—there will be a prospect for a better tomorrow, different from today?

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