Israel’s Supreme Court relies on the discredited theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt to justify its antidemocratic rule

By Or Bassok, TABLET    8 May 2024

Supreme court justices (from left to right) Yoel Sussman, Yitzhak Olshan, and Shimon Agranat, Jerusalem, 1964; in the background, Israelis protest judicial reform in Tel Aviv, September 17, 2023/ORIGINAL IMAGES: ISRAELI GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE; JACK GUEZ/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

During the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, the idea that there are limits on the people’s power to amend the constitution was raised in public discourse by Adolf Hitler. In preparing for the 1932 presidential election, the parties supporting the Weimar Republic united behind the incumbent President Paul von Hindenburg. However, the 84-year-old ex-general wanted to avoid campaigning for reelection. For this reason, the “Weimar coalition” proposed an amendment to Article 41 of the Weimar Constitution to enable the Reichstag to extend Hindenburg’s term through a simple parliamentary vote. In opposition to this amendment, Hitler argued that there were limits on the ability to amend the Weimar Constitution.
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“Gather about you all who observe the law, and avenge your people. Pay back the Gentiles what they deserve, and observe the precepts of the law.”

By Stephen Schecter, FUTURE OF JEWISH    11 May 2024

When the ancient Greek king’s emissary came to the ancient Israeli city of Modi’in and demanded that the Jews make a sacrifice to the pagan gods, Mattityahu refused, stabbed the Jew who was ready to submit, and called his people to revolt.

“Let everyone who is zealous for the law and who stands by the covenant follow me,” he cried.

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Caroline Glick | JNS | May 9, 2024

Biden takes an unprecedented move and stops a weapons transfer to Israel as the Jewish State makes moves to finish Hamas.

A new book underlines the desperate straits of the nation qua nation.

By Jude Russo, AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE    10 May 2024

The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart, Jeremy Carl, Regnery, 256 pages.

The latter decades of the Ottoman empire are occasionally held up as a golden age of pluralism and tolerance; in some respects, they were, particularly after the British put the kibosh on the lion’s share of the Arab slave trade. The empire’s non-Turkish, non-Muslim populations were organized into millets, or “nations,” governed by the laws particular to their religious and national groups. Armenians, Syrian Christians, Greek Orthodox, a variety of Jews, Arab Catholics—all were able to practice their religions and participate in public life with relative impunity under their own leaders, who answered to the sovereign of the sublime House of Osman, sultan of sultans, khan of khans, kalif, padishah, etc., who generally had more pressing concerns than micromanaging the affairs of the millets.

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By ANDREW KORYBKO’S NEWSLETTER    11 May 2024

The five objectives that are enumerated in this piece encapsulate what Russia nowadays aims to achieve after over two years of intense proxy warfare with NATO.

Zelensky claimed on Friday that Russia’s long-awaited offensive had finally begun following its fresh push into Kharkov Region from which it tactically pulled back in September 2022. This precedes him likely clinging to power on legally dubious pretexts once his term expires on 21 May and aligns with the Ukrainian Intelligence Committee’s prediction of political-military troubles heading into his summer. Here are the five objectives that Russia arguably aims to achieve in view of the conflict’s larger context:

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E. Rowell:  This critique is written from the standpoint of politicians in the U.K., the EU, Canada, and the U.S.A.  While some politicians in Israel fit this description, I do not think Prime Minister Netanyahu deserves this particular critique.  Of all heads of state across the globe, he is one of the very few who are standing up for his people and protecting the country. Many globalist billionaires support empowering Iran, Hamas, and the anti-Zionist movement in the US, as part of that goal to destroy the US and Israel.

By Paul Weston, THE CONSERVATIVE WOMAN 10 May 2024

By Nils A. Haug, GATESTONE    10 May 2024

As with the warriors of King David, the soldiers of Israel are again surrounded by enemies driven by hatred for the values represented by the Jewish nation and seeking their eradication. Once more, Israelis are called upon to resist forces threatening their destiny.  Pictured:  Israeli soldiers inspect the entrance to a Hamas terror tunnel just outside an UNRRWA compound in Gaza City, on February 8, 2024. (Photo by Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

• These assaults are not only aimed at Israel and its inhabitants but, ultimately, at the West.

• Adversaries of the West — whether religious fundamentalists or authoritarian states such as China, Russia, and Iran and its allies — appear intent upon imposing a new totalitarian world order. To do so, they seek destruction of the two main countries standing in their way: United States of America and Israel, the global champions of democracy, freedom, Western values, and human rights.

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The arms cutoff shows that Washington wants to let Hamas win the war it started on Oct. 7. This will do incalculable harm to U.S. interests abroad and at home.

JONATHAN S. TOBIN (May 9, 2024 / JNS)

Israeli reserve soldiers take part in a military drill in the Golan Heights in northern Israel on May 8, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

This isn’t the first dispute between the governments of the United States and Israel. Nor is it the first time that Washington has used the supply of arms to try to pressure the Jewish state to bend to its will. But there is no precedent for what President Joe Biden has just done.

By declaring that he will stop supplying weapons to Israel, including high-tech heavy bombs and artillery shells, if it seeks to enter Rafah and eliminate Hamas’s last remaining stronghold in Gaza, the president was making a clear declaration that the United States was mandating an end to the war that the terrorist group began with the massacre of men, women and children on Oct. 7.

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Peloni:  As Biden withholds arms from Israel to fight terrorists, it authorizes arms sales to terrorist controlled nations.

Adam Kredo | The Free Beacon | May 10, 2024

Less than a day before the Biden administration announced its intent to cut off U.S. arms sales to Israel, it issued a sanctions waiver to bypass congressional prohibitions on arms sales to a host of Arab nations that boycott the Jewish state, including Hamas ally Qatar and Iran-controlled Lebanon, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

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Peloni:  This is an important update by Gen. Avivi.  Among other matters, Avivi shares that Israel has enough weapons to conquer Gaza and deal with the North, but that the hold on the supply of arms will change how strongly Israel can operate in the North, and also in response to further attacks from Iran.  Avivi goes on to note that before the assault on Rafah, the pressure on Israel is at its peak to keep Israel from going into Rafah, but that once the assault on Rafah is completed, the situation will change and the pressure on the US administration to release the weapons to Israel will be at that point be at its peak due to the influence of Congressmen, Senators and the public.   He also challenges all American Jews, regardless of political persuasion, to recognize that it is their responsibility to press the US govt to stop withholding vital munitions from Israel during its war against the existential threats which have so viciously attacked her.

Gen. Amir Avivi | IDSF | May 10, 2024

Brigadier General Res. Amir Avivi discusses the decision by the US to withhold munitions from Israel.

PM Netanyahu | Dr. Phil Primetime | May 9, 2024

Dr. Phil sits down with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, for an in-depth interview. Join us as we discuss the war between Isreal and Hamas and how it has made an impact on the United States. Don’t miss this exclusive conversation.

Peloni:  I usually agree with everything which Amb. Friedman states, which is why his lukewarm comments on Qatar drew my attention.  Qatar is Israels enemy.  They funded Hamas and controlled the security of the Hamas leadership, all while that leadership planned and executed the October 7 slaughter against Israel.  The Qatari claims of seeking stability in the region could not be more false, and the role which they are funding the spread of antisemitism among the youth of America is also no secret.  Not to mention the corruption in which Qatar was caught in secretly funding Gen. Allen who was lobbying on behalf of Qatar, the same Gen. Allen who is today lobbying Congress against Israel on behalf of Hamas, and who has been pushing forward the libelous claims that Israel is sexually assaulting the Pals over the past several months.  There should be no equivocating on Qatar.  They are an enemy of both Israel and America, an ally of Iran, and their claims of seeking stability are as completely duplicitous.

Ambassador David Friedman | JBS | May 8, 2024

Ambassador David Friedman, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, discusses the situation in Israel today, the rise in global antisemitism, and the geopolitics of the Middle East with David Harris.

E. Rowell:  A great experiment has taken place in the USA.  The entire educational system from K through college graduation has been subverted through DEI indoctrination.  One of the first consequences of CRT and DEI is the destruction of meritocracy.  A second consequence is the normalization of racism.  A third consequence is the normalization of Jew hatred.  Federal funding for public school education and college education should be conditioned upon the ending of DEI and CRT curricula, the firing of all DEI personnel and departments, and the firing of DEI professional hires.  Colleges must show that their faculty represent a broad array of political positions.  In addition, all points of views of students are to be encouraged, with schools being required to prove that they have accomplished this before funding is re-instated.

It may be the only way to save America.

By Daniel Greenfield, FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE    9 May 2024

1 in 10 college students answered that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez had created the New Deal. And only 1 in 10 knew James Madison’s role in shaping the Constitution.

That survey from the ‘American Council of Trustees and Alumni’ was one of several warnings about the catastrophic illiteracy of college students and graduates.

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute did its own survey of over 28,000 undergraduates from 80 colleges and the average score on the civic literacy exam was an F. At top schools, including Yale, seniors actually knew less than freshmen. A Collegiate Learning Assessment found that after two years almost half of students showed “no significant gains in learning”.

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Dennis Prager  |  Town Hall | May 7, 2024

I doubt that there is any national or religious group that produces the percentage of people who aid those who wish to hurt, let alone kill, that group as do Jews.

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By Andrew Korybko    9 May 2024

There’ll be those activist-minded members of the Mainstream Media and the Alt-Media Community who’ll pick and choose which element of this policy to focus on in advance of their ideological agenda but the fact of the matter is that the entire whole represents a comprehensive diplomatic push.

Many observers from the Mainstream Media and the Alt-Media Community alike were shocked when Defense Secretary Austin confirmed on Wednesday during a congressional testimony that the US had withheld “one shipment of high payload munitions” on the pretext that they could be used in Rafah. Biden then expanded on this newfound policy later in the day when declaring that “We’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells” if the IDF goes into Rafah’s population centers.

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The State Election Board admits that Fulton County violated election law

Emerald Robinson’s The Right Way | May 9, 2024

Citizen journalist Joe Rossi showed up at the Georgia State Capitol yesterday for the State Election Board meeting to announce that America’s corrupt voting system had finally been caught beyond a shadow of a doubt.

How?

It’s now been proven that Fulton County’s hand audit and the certified machine count are both in violation of Georgia’s election law.

That’s right: Georgia’s State Election Board has been forced to admit in writing that Fulton County cheated.

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E. Rowell:  Since the end of World War II, the CIA  used its power to destroy any individual or harm any country that was deemed a “threat” to the US or to US corporations.  Under Directors Allen Dulles and Richard Helms, CIA operatives carried out assassinations of political leaders all over the world, (including our own) and they used the media to defame, delegitimize, dishonor, and destroy anyone in the public eye that they deemed a “threat.”  They used various means of hijacking elections; in the 1950’s and ’60s it was to prevent Communist parties from gaining power.  Now electoral fraud is required  to maintain its power.  Meanwhile Americans are watching.

By J. B. Shurk, AMERICAN THINKER    9 May 2024

Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (cropped)

By David Harsanyi, THE FEDERALIST    7 May 2024

Office of the US Chief of Counsel for the prosecution of Axis criminality/Wikimedia Commons

In the 12th century, the Christian dualist movement Catharism began spreading across northern Italy and southern France. It was neither the first nor the last heretical challenge to orthodox Christianity in medieval Europe — as Catholics can surely attest.

In any event, the Cathars essentially believed, among many other heresies, in two gods: one of eternal heaven and another of worldly evil. The belief became so popular that Pope Innocent III, apparently not a fan of religious liberty, was compelled to launch the Albigensian Crusade to stamp out this theological perversion. Hundreds of thousands likely perished. In one French Cathar city, 20,000 people were reported slaughtered under papal legate.

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Here are ten of their most common untruths about October 7 and the war that followed.

Peloni: There is a great deal to be garnered from this conversation, which includes good ideas, bad suggestions, and great dilemmas, all of which face Israel as it approaches the Day After Gaza.

A Tablet roundtable about the challenges facing Israel in Gaza, Lebanon, and Washington, with Elliott Abrams, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Amiad Cohen, Michael Doran, Jon Greenwald, and Lee Smith

by Tony Badran | Tablet | May 08, 2024

Israel had barely begun its military operation in Gaza, after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people and kidnapped 240 more, when the Biden administration began talking about what would need to happen the day after the war was over. “There has to be a vision of what comes next,” President Biden said on Oct. 25, 2023.

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