T. Belman.  I read this book more than 50 years ago and was profoundly influenced by it. The New World Order envisages a world or life without meaning. As such it is doomed to failure.

In Israel, the Right is imbued with meaning and the Left is bereft of it.

By Samuel Kronen, CITY JOURNAL

Viktor Frankl survived the Holocaust and created a new psychology in which the search for meaning—not pleasure or power—is mankind’s central motivational force.

The Austrian psychiatrist, author, and Holocaust survivor Viktor Emil Frankl was a quintessential humanist. His memoir Man’s Search for Meaning, a psychological portrait of life inside the concentration camps, has become a go-to for seekers of every variety since its original German-language publication in 1946. Listed as “one of the ten most influential books in the U.S.” in 1991, it still appears as one of Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime. Having sold more than 10 million copies and having been translated into 24 languages, Man’s Search for Meaning is considered among the most inspiring nonfiction works. This “should be required reading for anyone desiring to live on this planet,” says a YouTube commentator, regarding one of Frankl’s interviews. Frankl’s crowning literary achievement, however—written in nine days and originally published anonymously—is just the capstone on his life and work.

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By Ray DiLorenzo, STAND UP AMERICA

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”  Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

A global war has been declared.  This is not hyperbole, this is not conspiracy.   A violent revolution IS taking place.  It will be the greatest revolution in human history.  It has already begun and too many people are choosing to be oblivious.  It will radically change the lives of billions of people and has already ended the lives of millions.  It is a global WAR on the middle class…a war the enemy intends to win.
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T. Belman. This is a very important analysis. According to Justice Barak, the Declaration of Independence did not have legal validity until the Basic Law Human Dignity and Liberty was passed in 1992. Four years later, Freedom of Occupation [Career] Basic Law  was passed.

That law defined Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state”. UNGA Res 181 called for the creation of a Jewish and an Arab state in Mandatory Palestine. Thus, the UN extended its formal imprimatur to the notion of a Jewish state. But the question arises, are these two values complementary or contradictory? I suggest the latter is the case and being a Jewish State should take precedence.

Ben Gurion rejected the notion of Western Democracy and chose instead Jewish democracy “as envisaged by the prophets of Israel.”

In 2018, Basic Law: The Nation State of the Jewish People was passed. It is short. Read it carefully.

Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation provides “This Basic Law shall not be varied except by a Basic Law passed by a majority of the members of the Knesset.” This principle applies to all Basic Laws unless otherwise stipulated.

By RABBI ALAN SILVERSTEIN, JEWISH STANDARD    May 24, 2023, 

I recently returned from a month-long stay in Israel, visiting family and attending the “Extraordinary Session” of the World Zionist Congress. The body’s deliberations included debates between proponents and opponents of the proposed changes in the Israeli judicial system. Often at issue was the meaning of Israel’s “foundational document,” the May 14, 1948, Declaration of Independence — the Megillat Ha’Atzmaut. Seeing the Declaration as a statement containing checks and balances for the securing of human rights, the World Zionist Congress issued a resolution calling for “anchoring the position of the Declaration of Independence in the Zionist movement.”
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The danger of the anti-government protest movement is that it has introduced a form of paganism into its political goals.

Dr. Moshe Dann, INN      Aug 25, 2023, 

The protest movement in Israel has succeeded in mobilizing many thousands of people against the current government. It claims to be “protecting democracy” by trying to stop judicial reforms. Its agenda, however, includes a wide range of issues and seeks to implement “liberal and Progressive” policies that are often in conflict with traditional Jewish values and Zionism. The struggle, therefore, is not only about judicial reforms, but Israel’s identity as a Jewish state.

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Parents argued the inclusion of LGBTQ+ books indoctrinated their kids

By Chris Pandolfo Fox News

A federal court in Maryland decided Thursday that parents can’t opt their kids out of reading books with LGBTQ+ content in Montgomery County Schools.

In Tamer Mahmoud v. Monica B. McKnight, parents sought to reinstate a MCPS policy that would allow them to opt their children out of reading and discussing books with LGBTQ+ characters in elementary schools. The parents argued the content in these books was a form of indoctrination that violated their families’ religious beliefs.

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The fundamental question isn’t whether Israel should be a democracy. It’s whether it should be like everywhere else.

By Antonio Garcia Martinez, TABLET

I’m jet lagged and jostled, in the back of a Maserati SUV driven maniacally by a guy named “Shay” on Israel’s Highway 1 between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Next to me, also crammed between shrink-wrapped cases of drinking water, is Maya Zehavi, a member of the Israeli crypto community and the reason why I’m here. Riding shotgun is Sarit Radman, the mother of Moshe Radman, one of the handful of ad hoc leaders of Israel’s protest movement around a judicial reform bill that has divided the nation. The goal is to deliver ima Radman to her son at the head of the procession for the big photo op as they enter Jerusalem.
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By David Lanza, AM THINKER

On August 1, 2023, it became “illegal” to manufacture or sell incandescent light bulbs anywhere in the United States, and consumers are left with no choice but to purchase LED bulbs. Incandescent bulbs were a previously legal product about which no public outcry had arisen.  No law was actually passed anywhere. The decision was made solely by the executive branch of the federal government. Congress did not vote.  There was no consensus for any such thing. A staple consumer item has disappeared from store shelves everywhere.
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Why Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project would fail today.

by Lloyd Billingsley, FPM

As the three-hour Oppenheimer shows, to build the first atomic bomb required the best scientific minds, the finest facilities, and the construction of an entire community. Today, a project of that magnitude would be doomed to failure.

The Manhattan Project scientists were pale males of European extraction. Such men are no longer acceptable, regardless of scientific merit and proven experience. Biden’s diversity forces would demand “scientists of color” and LGBTQ activists without regard to experience. This would be only one of the hurdles.

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By MARTIN SHERMAN 

Past deeds of heroism are no justification for present acts of subversion

 Thy destroyers and thy demolishers shall emerge from within thee. – Isaiah 49:17

A situation has been created with centers of power with authority without responsibility…this is not democratic…the Supreme Court is one of those centers— Lt-Gen (res.) Moshe “Bogey” Yaalon, in an address to “Jewish Leadership” faction in Likud, 19 August, 2009.

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Pro-American democracies and anti-American dictatorships are not the same. The Biden administration shouldn’t treat them as if they are. 

By Stephen M. Flatow, INN     Aug 23, 2023,

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week spoke to a visiting Israeli official about “the importance of Israel and the Palestinians taking affirmative steps to de-escalate tensions and bolster stability in the ‘West Bank’.”

Blinken’s position of even-handedness wrongly asserts that both sides are guilty of causing tensions. It’s yet another sign of the Biden administration’s steady drift away from America’s longstanding alliance with Israel.

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The annual $3.8bn extended by the US to Israel (to purchase only US military systems) does not constitute “foreign aid.” It is an annual US investment 

by Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger      Aug 24, 2023,

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at ceremony for new F-35 

Israel’s use of the F-35 benefits the US

A recent mega-billion-dollar increase in the export of Lockheed-Martin’s F-35 combat aircraft is due to the overcoming of a series of pivotal glitches. This was achieved by Lockheed-Martin, as well as by Israel’s air force and aerospace industries (especially the innovative Israel Aerospace Industries – IAI), known as the cost-effective and battle-tested laboratory of the US defense and aerospace industries and armed forces.

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By Ted Belman.

Today I tried to communicate with my daughter about what is really going on. She is in the thick of it. It turned into a shouting match so I decided to text her. The following is the exchange.

https://www.israpundit.org/israels-elites-revolt-against-democracy/#respond

Both the Tablet article and the comments I have added, prove the elites are the enemy of democracy.

Highly recommended article about Basic Laws.

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T. Belman. Haaretz has it all wrong. Long before normalization with SA takes place, King Abdullah will be gone and Mudar  Zahran will be the leader of Jordan. So what Abdullah says and does is irrelevant. MBS is aware of this and may also have had discussions with Israel as to what happens the day after.  I have known for years that MBS is interested but have yet to hear that Israel is willing. The alternate for Israel is to set up an Israel Wakf which Wakf would not have jurisdiction over the whole Temple Mount, only the Muslim Holy places..  As for the alleged Israeli commitment not to annex Judea and Samaria, she only agreed to suspend annexation for a time.

At the time Kushner said, “Israel has agreed to suspend the annexation, to suspend applying Israeli law to those areas for the time being,” he told the WAM agency. “But in the future it is a discussion that I am sure will be had. But not in the near future.””

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hasn’t hidden his desire to be the guardian of all of Islam’s holy places — including the Al-Aqsa Mosque — which is causing tension with Jordanian King Abdullah

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives Jordan’s King Abdullah ll in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2022.
Credit: Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS

Among a series of hints and signals, slips of the tongue and commentaries in recent weeks over the possible normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, there’s one explicit decision that remains lacking. Saudi Arabia hasn’t yet clearly stated its position on whether Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman intends to take the step, and if so, subject to what conditions and what time frame would it be carried out?

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By Hunter Fielding, NEWS ADDICT       August 21, 2023

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“Russia has just released an explosive 2000-page report that provides overwhelming evidence proving that the Covid pandemic was manufactured in a coordinated effort by deep state operatives and Big Pharma companies.”…………<

“Under the guise of monitoring disease, the US Deep State has proliferated the world with illegal biolabs engaged in inhumane research, the embassy stressed .The statement also pointed out that these institutions have been built up close to Russia’s borders, encircling the nation. “The goal is obvious – to be able to create crisis situations of a biological nature at the right time, form artificial foci of infections,” the diplomats clarified.”

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