T. Belman. Well argued by Pruzansky, except for his allusion to Jan 6 which I believe is without foundation. Their differences are much more significant than their similarities.

Jan 6 was about an actual perversion of democracy whereas the current protests in Israel are about an alleged potential perversion.

These protests are the Israeli elite’s attempt to supplant democracy with mobocracy. Spare us the crocodile tears. 

By Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, INN     15.2.23

Protest in Jerusalem against judicial reforms, Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90

There is an old trial lawyer’s maxim that “if the law is against you, pound the facts. If the facts are against you, pound the law. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table.”

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T. Belman. Both Lapid and Gants have demanded that the legislative process must be stopped as a pre-condition..

The coalition wants negotiations without pre-conditions.

President repeats his call for negotiations and for reaching that will benefit the State of Israel and its citizens.

By Hezki Baruch, INN      15.12.23

Yair Lapid, Simcha Rothman, Isaac Herzog and Benny GantzAmos Ben Gershom/GPO, Hezki Baruch, Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90

President Isaac Herzog is continuing his efforts to reach a compromise regarding the judicial reform, and on Tuesday evening he met with the chairman of the Knesset Constitution Committee MK Simcha Rothman, the leader of the opposition Yair Lapid, and the chairman of the National Unity Party, Benny Gantz.

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Hirsch’s script will make for an exciting and profitable fictional thriller for the big screen.

By Andrew Benjamin   Feb 13

This story begins and ends with the observation: Everything is so, unless it isn’t.

A great fiction scribe but a poor journalist, Seymour Hirsch at SUBSTACK concocted an amazingly-intricate-but-contrived script for a Hollywood production, from which he will make millions for his progressive friends and himself.

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T. Belman. Col D. Macgregor said in this video, with full confidence, that the balloons were no national threat whatsoever.

By Clare Lopez, NEWSMAX   8.2.23

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s brazen intrusion into U.S. air space in early February 2023 provided the Chinese valuable streams of information. Clearly, the balloon first spotted over the continental U.S. on Feb. 1 was on a surveillance mission.

It departed the Chinese mainland on Jan. 21, traversed the Pacific Ocean, entered U.S. air space over Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, and then, after drifting down Canada’s west coast, entered continental U.S. air space. The White House reportedly was aware of the balloon from Jan. 28.

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Yeshiva student who witnessed incident where a Golani soldier was filmed beating an Arab activist in Hebron says activist struck first.

Israel National News    14.2.23

The Golani soldier who was imprisoned after he was filmed assaulting a Palestinian-Arab activist in Hebron on Monday was defending himself after he was attacked, according to a Jewish witness to the incident.

The soldier was filmed knocking PA-Arab activist Issa Amro to the ground and kicking him. Amro was accompanied by a US film crew that included prominent journalist Lawrence Wright of The New Yorker, who wrote afterward that, “I never had a source assaulted in front of me until today, when an Israeli soldier who stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in Hebron. I can’t stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it.”

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By Alex Grobman, PhD

The ubiquitous denigration, demonization and holding Israel to a double standard by those whom Daniel Greenfield calls “tenured academics, progressive journalists and irreligious clergy for whom Jewish values, like American values, mean appeasement and surrender to terrorists,” is an ongoing problem, although not a new one.

As early as May 1, 1936, Labor Zionist leader Berl Katznelson asked: “Is there another people on earth whose sons are so emotionally twisted that they consider everything their nation does despicable and hateful, while every murder, rape and robbery committed by their enemies fills their hearts with admiration and awe? As long as a Jewish child…can come to the land of Israel, and here catch the virus of self-hate…let not our conscience be still.”
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Despite their protests, we’re going to normalize life in Judea and Samaria, says Finance Minister.

By Hezki Baruch, INN

On Tuesday morning, Knesset members and ministers from the Religious Zionism party convened their party meeting in Givat Harel in the Binyamin region, following the decision of the state-security cabinet to legalize the community along with eight others in Judea and Samaria. Most of these communities have existed for years; some were established decades ago.

At the start of the meeting, those participating held a moment’s silence in memory of Asil Sawaed, the Border Police officer who lost his life following a terrorist attack on Monday.

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When there’s clearly no “partner in peace.”

Joseph Puder, FPM   14.2.23

Western governments and media critical of the newly elected government coalition led by Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu failed to ask themselves how it happened that the likes of Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir are now prominent ministers in Netanyahu’s government. The same critics in the west labeling Smotrich and Ben Gvir “extremists,” haven’t attached that title to Mahmoud Abbas.

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By Jack Hellner, AM THINKER

The Republicans in the House are having an investigation into the collusion of the media, Justice Department, and Intelligence officials as they censored the true story of the Biden family corruption right before the 2020 election.

This was pure election interference to mislead the public.
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This is the history of the transformation of a tiny area occupied by Zaporozhian Cossacks into the largest country in Europe after Russia, larger than France or Germany. How did Ukraine pull off an expansion of this magnitude without a single conquest?

By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER

The starting point of the history of Ukraine began is 1654 when Bohdan Khmelnitsky, a Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, leader of Cossacks living beyond the Dnieper Rapids, petitioned Russian czar Alexey to accept the Zaporozhian Host into Russia. The land inhabited by the Cossacks (the orange area on the map) was part of what Russians called the Wild Fields, or “u kraine,” which means in Russian “at the edge.” The term originated in the 12th century to describe lands populated by half-savage tribes on the outskirts of Russia.
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Likud MK presents battle over judicial reform as one of haves vs. have-nots. “They’ll give us some things, but they won’t let us rule.”

Hezki Baruch, INN      Feb 14, 2023,

MK David (Dudi) Amsalem (Likud) has launched a verbal tirade against the opposition parties and those demonstrating on the streets to protest the government’s proposed judicial reforms.

“Left-wingers are the most violent, deceitful thugs in the country, and we are going to push these legal reforms through to the end,” Amsalem said. “That is the task of this government.”

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by Judith Bergman, GATESTONE  •  February 14, 2023

Chinese President Xi Jinping welcome’s Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou in Beijing on May 28, 2019. (Photo by Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images)

• The Global Gateway project was launched in December 2021. Meanwhile, China’s BRI was launched in 2012 and has spread all over the globe, especially to Africa, Latin America and Asia, where it has gained China vast influence. The Communist Party newspaper China Daily recently claimed that in 2022 alone, China had signed new contracts with BRI countries worth nearly $100 billion.

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Interview on RT’s show Modus Operandi with Manila Chan 12/02/23

MARK SLEBODA, REAL POLITICK

RT Modus Operandi: – Ukraine flooded with weapons 13 Feb, 2023

It was an honour and a pleasure to be invited on Manila Chan’s new show on RT – Modus Operandi, for a discussion of the Western arms supply to the Kiev regime in its proxy war on Russia.
RT Modus Operandi: Ukraine flooded with weapons 13 Feb, 2023

_{Gallup’s 2022 World Happiness Report proves that while Israel is thriving, its enemies are among the world’s most miserable.}

By Charles O. Kaufman February 13, 2023

(JNS / Bnai Brith) Israel, home to 53% of world Jewry, is a happy place. Yet you wouldn’t know it if you believed the headlines about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government or saw the latest anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations and the current wave of Jew-hatred propagated by American celebrities.

After all, between the International Court of Justice, Whoopi Goldberg, Kyrie Irving and Kanye West, antisemitism appears to be off to a good start in 2023.

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Will It Help Putin?

DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
THE BALLOONS AREN’T A THREAT
US IS ALIENATING ITS PUPPETS
OLIGARCHS ARE RULING THE US AND EVERYONE IS IN ON THE TAKE.

T. Belman. The US is overplaying its hand. The end result will be that Israel will develop a backbone.

Biden urges consensus in Israel on judiciary plans as protest mounts

US to open investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Progressives and fiscal hawks may cut future funding for Israel

Why the U.S. Is Pressuring Israel into an Agreement with Lebanon

US warns Israel over illegal colonial outposts in Palestine

By JACOB MAGID, TOI

The US strongly condemns the alleged killing of a Palestinian by an Israeli settler over the weekend in the northern West Bank and calls for an investigation into the incident.

“We strongly condemn the shooting of Methkal Rayyan by an Israeli settler from the illegal Havat Yair outpost in Salfit,” the US Office of Palestinian Affairs tweets, making a point of highlighting the suspect’s residence in an illegal outpost.

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T. Belman. Like I said, the chances of reaching a consensus are nil. The Left would rather continue the fight then make a deal. They will bank on being victorious in the next election. But they are fighting a loosing battle. The electorate will penalize them for their intransigence rather than applaud them.

‘We will fight until we are victorious,’ vows Opposition Leader Yair Lapid at demonstration outside of Knesset against judicial reform plan.

Israel National News    Feb 13, 2023, 2:06?PM (undefined)

Roughly sixty thousand demonstrators gathered in central Jerusalem Monday afternoon to protest against the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform plan.

The demonstrators rallied outside of the Knesset, leading to heavy traffic and packed light rail trains in the center of the capital.

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How The EU Ignores Hamas’ Crimes

by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  February 13, 2023

Head of the European Union’s mission to the West Bank and Gaza Strip Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff (R) visits the illegally-built Palestinian community of Khan al-Ahmar near Jerusalem, on January 30, 2023. (Photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)

• What is even more painful and humiliating for the Palestinians, is that EU officials who regularly visit the Gaza Strip intentionally ignore the suffering of the Palestinians living under Hamas.
• On February 2, fifteen EU Heads of Mission visited the Gaza Strip without saying a single word about any of the victims of Hamas’s crimes and human rights violations.
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by Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post, February 11, 2023

At first glance, the aliyah figures for 2022 would appear to provide ample reason to rejoice.

After just 28,601 immigrants arrived in Israel in 2021, the number who made the move last year more than doubled, surging to an astonishing 74,915, according to Jewish Agency statistics.

That is the highest figure since 1999 and is nearly equivalent to the number of those who chose to make Israel their home in the previous three years combined.
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