After stormy Coalition meeting, PM delays address, committee approves key reform law

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shouts at Netanyahu during raucous meeting, pushing back against plan to freeze judicial overhaul

Netanyahu pushes to pause judicial reform for several weeks

Otzma Yehudit threatens to bolt government if judicial reform frozen, as PM calls second meeting of Coalition leaders.

Religious Zionist Party blasts Netanyahu’s plan to freeze judicial reform

‘Stopping the judicial reform would mean surrendering to violence, anarchy, and refusal within the army,’ warns Religious Zionist Party.

by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE    •  March 27, 2023 at 5:00 am

• Inviting Hamas and PIJ officials to participate in such events shows that the real aim of the so-called pro-Palestinian groups is not to help the Palestinians, but to incite and spread hate and libels against the only democracy in the Middle East: Israel.
• [I]t sends a message to the Palestinians that the students and professors at the universities around the world support terrorism as a means to kill Jews and destroy Israel.
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Ben Gurion departures halted as Histadrut declares ‘historic’ strike over overhaul    TOI

When protesters throw around the word dictatorship    Dror Eydar

What the war against judicial reform is really about | Caroline Glick Show

Israel’s post-democracy moment    Melanie Phillips

INTO THE FRAY: Obviating elections    Martin Sherman

The Judicial Reform Debate. Ted Belman

Is the US leading a colour revolution against Israel  David Mark

Following overnight consultation: Netanyahu to deliver speech to the nation INN

Universities announce: Classes suspended indefinitely   INN

After five hours: Police evacuate protesters from Ayalon Highway   INN

Firing his defense minister, Netanyahu raises public anger at his rule to new heights  By Horovitz, TOI

Shaked tweeted: “Netanyahu stop! Even a justified reform does not justify the dismantling of Israeli society, security and the economy. Your first responsibility at the top – preventing the destruction of the house. Stop now!”

T. Belman. Sachs argues that the war didn’t start a year ago as the West suggests. It started shortly after the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact. He cites the promises made to curtail NATO, the growth of NATO, the attempted CIA coup in Belarus, the Maidan Coup, the build up of the Ukrainian army thereafter, the bombing of Donetsk and the sham of the Minsk Agreements.

In his suggested Peace Agreement, he doesn’t allow for Russia to keep the four provinces. The most he will give them is a long term lease of Crimea. I think he is wrong in this.

Agree with him or not, his toughness deserves to be admired. Op-ed.

By Jack Engelhard, INN

You have to wonder if Benjamin Netanyahu ever watched the revered classic movie, “High Noon.” If so, how many times? If not, why not? It suits him perfectly.

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History » Ask HON »

With its national identity linked to communism for nearly a century, and its weak foundations of democracy in the 21st century, many will inevitably wonder: Is Russia communist?

The answer is no, Russia can no longer be seen as a communist country. The communist Soviet Union ended on December 26, 1991. Communist ideologies have, however not totally come to an end in the new, capitalist Russia.

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BRILLIANT

By Ted Belman

Gallant gave him no choice.

Netanyahu is expected to appoint Min Avi Dicter to be the next Defense minister.

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Prominently on display in Yoav Gallant’s speech were two traits that make him unfit for his job: cowardice and betrayal.

By Ruthie Blum

(March 26, 2023 / JNS) To borrow the favorite epithet of the demonstrators in the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities, “shame” on Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. In an announcement on Saturday night, the Cabinet member charged with the country’s most crucial portfolio called on the government to halt its judicial reform legislation and heal the rifts that have gone so far as to reach the military.

“I hear the voices from the field and I’m worried,” he said, while also urging the opposition to stop the protests to give negotiations a chance. Oh, and to “enable the nation to celebrate Passover and Independence Day together, and to mourn together on Memorial Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day.”

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The demonstrators speak of “dictatorship” while the current situation is one in which we are ruled by a small group of unelected oligarchs that has concentrated unrestricted powers of governance in its hands.

By  Dror Eydar, ISRAEL HAYOM 

Stalin as an organizer of the October Revolution by Karp Demjanovich Trokhimenko

1. The compromise proposed with regards to the composition of the judicial selection committee is a good one. If the opposition does not wish to engage in dialogue, then we must talk with the voices coming from within the opposition. Our sages have said after all that man does not leave this world having achieved even half of his desire.  Judicial review of Basic Laws by the Supreme Court will lead to a constitutional crisis – one that those sowing the seeds of chaos seek to bring about.
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Declaration of ex-Shin Bet chief’s full support for court-curbing legislation follows reports that he’d joined calls for talks; Likud MK Dallal also won’t break with party

By TOI STAFF     Today, 4:14 pm  

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair MK Avi Dichter, left, at an FADC meeting in the Knesset, November 19, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Two Likud Knesset members who had signaled they could vote against parts of the government’s judicial overhaul reversed course on Sunday and promised to toe the party line, seemingly quashing a brewing internal rebellion before it could get off the ground.

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By Dr. Eado Hecht, BESA CENTRE    March 26, 2023

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,189, March 26, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The war in Ukraine is an example of modern high-intensity warfare. As such, it offers a number of lessons that can be learned about the capabilities, limitations, and requirements of armies conducting such warfare. New technology and methods have added capabilities, but have not rendered more traditional methods of warfare and technology obsolete. The IDF should learn to merge the new with the old by acquiring competence in new technology and tactics while maintaining technical and tactical competence in the veteran ”basics”.

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BY DAVID SOLWAY, PJ MEDIA       9:10 PM ON MARCH 25, 2023

Courtesy of Myra Kahn Adams

It has never been easy for Israel — the understatement of the century — from the moment of its establishment in 1948, when it was invaded by five Arab armies, to the present day, when it is facing multiple threats to its very survival. It suffers a history like no other nation in the world, surrounded by enemies, fighting wars on every front, infiltrated by terrorists, confronting the wetware dreams of genocidal regimes, in particular the prospect of a nuclear Iran sworn to the country’s annihilation, and subject to an international delegitimation campaign carried out via the United Nations, the World Council of Churches, spurious NGOs and “peace” organizations, labor unions, university campuses, and a hostile European Union.
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By Peggy Ryan, AM THINKER

Immediately after the 2016 election, the order went out: never let Trump’s presidency be normalized.”  Huh?  So someone controls what’s normal and what’s not?

Actually, yes, the leftist insurgency can and does control what’s normal, or at least what’s perceived as normal.  In fact, normalization is arguably the left‘s most powerful tool to control behavior,, herd the populace, even impose a tyrannical government.
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T. Belman.  Its not easy to hold the line as Bibi is doing.  The obstructionists are demanding a freeze. They should make a counter offer instead.

Defense Minister sought to have ministers hear the direct consequences of judicial reforms for Israel’s security.

Israel National News     Mar 26, 2023, 8:09 AM (GMT+3)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convene the Cabinet to discuss the consequences of the judicial reforms, and decided to deliver his public address last night calling for the reforms to be frozen after Netanyahu refused to convene the Cabinet.

In his speech last night, Gallant said: “We need a change in the legal system, but such changes are made through negotiation and discourse. A victory for one of the parties will be a loss of the State of Israel. We must lead a participatory and unifying process.”

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Alongside Minister Karhi, who blasts Gallant’s speech, other Likud senior officials call to stop the legislation of the judicial reform.

Israel National News     26.3.23

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s speech on Saturday night, in which he called for the legislation of the judicial reform to be delayed until after Independence Day, led to a wave of reactions in the Likud Party that was split between firm opposition and even harsh criticism and support for his opinion.

Communications Minister Dr. Shlomo Karhi blasted Gallant and said, “I ask the voters of the Likud for forgiveness for our Defense Minister, who caved to the pressure of the left.”

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By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER

The unraveling of the Soviet Empire was widely perceived as a vindication of American verities and the beginning of an era of universal peace. Unfortunately, the preservation of the military alliance and its subsequent eastward expansion created an atmosphere of mistrust and trepidation.
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By Venus Upadhayaya, EPOCH TIMES

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping shake hands during a signing ceremony following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 21, 2023. [/caption]

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladamir Putin’s three-day meeting at the Kremlin earlier this week was aimed at creating a new China-led global order that’s powered by the communist regime’s ideology and economic system, geopolitical analysts say.

Xi, himself, appeared to have unwittingly divulged this goal in his parting words to Putin as he left the Kremlin on March 22, caught on camera by media outlets waiting outside the complex gates.

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