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Israel is potentially entering what people are calling a “constitutional crisis”, which is quite ironic since Israel does not even have a constitution.
Stick with me as I explain to you the latest judicial over reach and why Blue & White leader Benny Gantz is part of the problem even though he is being sold to us all as part of the solution.
The curious tale of two gay-activist “heroes” – and a movement that’s been piggybacked not once but twice.
When I was a young man attending Gay Pride Marches in New York City in the 1980s, there were two groups of marchers that stood out. One was the gay police officers, who always got the most applause – partly because everyone realized how much guts it took in those days to present oneself publicly as a gay cop (especially given that other members of New York’s Finest were there on duty, memorizing your face) and partly because their presence was living proof that being gay was not inconsistent with being an upstanding, respected, and useful member of society.
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by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, GATESTONE • September 15, 2023
In its recent efforts to stop the government from enacting any judicial reform, even tiny, inconsequential changes like minimizing the reasonableness clause, Isreal’s Supreme Court is trying to legally turn part of Israel’s Declaration of Independence into a constitution!
That is just an insane concept that highlights the over reach of the court, and emphasizes the need for judicial reform so that, finally, the Supreme Court would also have checks and balances to ensure a functioning democracy.
At the top of the pyramid sit the Attorney General and the High Court, now openly stating their vested interests.
By Leonie Ben-Simon, INN Sep 14, 2023,
We hear much talk about the Deep State in the United States. And now we are hearing about it in Israel. But what does this mean?
A Deep State is a hidden organization manipulating a democratic state regardless of what the voters in that state have chosen. On the Deep State level, small and large networks of power operate independently of a state’s political leadership in pursuit of their own agenda and goals with ideological objectives different to those of the elected government. Occasionally some of the government leadership is involved.
T. Belman. It boggles the mind that Shroyer was accused of “spewing violent rhetoric and spreading baseless claims of election fraud to hundreds of thousands of viewers”. There were so many reasons to believe there was election fraud that it was incumbent of all Americans to cry out the election was stolen.
To my way of thinking, Shroyer was a hero for drawing attention to the obvious.
By Washington, D.C.
Infowars host Owen Shroyer was sentenced on Tuesday to two months behind bars for joining the mob’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, which prosecutors said he “helped create” by spewing violent rhetoric and spreading baseless claims of election fraud to hundreds of thousands of viewers.
The Palestinian Authority is corrupt, the former US secretary of state warns in The Hill with Sander Gerber; the Saudis should support their fellow Muslims through a new NGO that bypasses the PA and the UN
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a warning against the involvement of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in any potential Saudi-Israeli normalization agreement. The Trump administration official and Sander Gerber, the chief executive of Hudson Bay Capital Management, sounded the alarm in a recent opinion column for The Hill.
T. Belman. There will be no normalization until Jordan is recognized as the Palestinian state. That is the two state solution that MBS wants. Pompeo is right to call for bypassing the PA and the UN in the YNET article above. That is what is going down.
Secretary of State says the Saudis have told the Americans that solving the Palestinian Arab issue is an important part of any normalization deal with Israel.
By Elad Benari, INN 14.9.23
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday gave an interview to the Pod Save the World podcast with Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes, and commented on the efforts to achieve a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Blinken made clear that normalization “cannot be a substitute for Israel and the Palestinians resolving their differences and having a much better future for Palestinians. And in our judgment, of course, that must – needs to involve a two-state solution.”
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Why is the uniparty risking a war we’re so ill-prepared to fight?
By Douglas Macgregor, AMER CONSERVATIVE
When Richard Nixon lost the election to John F. Kennedy, Nixon told supporters, “I know Jack Kennedy. He’s a patriot.” Nixon knew that the nation would be safe in President Kennedy’s hands.
Most Americans do not have the same confidence in President Biden. In April 2023, fewer than four in ten U.S. adults (37 percent) said they approved of Joe Biden’s job performance as president, with six in ten saying they disapproved. By a 2-to-1 margin, American voters now believe controlling the U.S. border is more important than helping Ukraine fight Russia. For the first time in 30 years, the U.S. Government’s interest payments on the sovereign debt equal defense spending.
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While appearing to defend their oversight authority, president and other judges don’t seem certain that damage posed by reasonableness legislation can justify annulling a Basic Law
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Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and all 14 other judges hear petitions against the ‘reasonableness law’ at the court in Jerusalem on September 12, 2023. (DEBBIE HILL / POOL / AFP)<
A legal drama of the highest order unfolded in the High Court of Justice on Tuesday, as arguments that cut to the core of Israel’s constitutional character were debated by all 15 justices of the court and attorneys for and against the government’s reasonableness limitation law.
Smotrich calls emergency meeting of Religious Zionism party; Ben Gvir calls on PM to publicly disavow reports or ‘face consequences’; defense minister says no arms were transferred
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Religious Zionist party leader MK Bezalel Smotrich (right) with Otzma Yehudit party leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir in the Knesset plenum, December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir railed angrily at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday over reports that the government approved the transfer of a shipment of armored vehicles and weapons from the United States to the Palestinian Authority.
Both ministers claimed that the move was made without their knowledge and accused Netanyahu of plotting to lay the foundations for an alternative government with National Unity party leader Benny Gantz.
by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE • September 13, 2023
T. Belman. This is a good synopsis but it misses the elephant in the room. I explain in my addendum at the bottom of this article.
This week, for the first time ever, Israel’s entire Supreme Court of 15 justices is hearing petitions challenging a key judicial coup law passed by the Netanyahu government. What does the new law say? Who is contesting it, and why? What are the repercussions of this dramatic confrontation?
By Allison Kaplan Sommer, HAARETZ
No matter the result, September 12, 2023 will be remembered as a historic day for Israeli democracy – and possibly the beginning of a constitutional crisis, or worse.
Martin Indyk is shocked by his friend, Mahmoud Abbas. So are we – by him.
By Barry Shaw, Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
Former US diplomat, Martin Indyk, who for decades promoted Palestinian advancement over Israeli sovereignty, is shocked by the recent anti-Semitic remarks of his dear friend. Mahmoud Abbas.
Indyk tweeted, “I have been despairing about how to respond to Abu Mazen’s profoundly anti-Semitic diatribe. How could someone who has treated me as a personal friend for three decades at the same time harbor such hateful views of my people?”
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