Final readings of Likud-sponsored bill, seen as tailored to save PM from potential legal trouble, approved after long night of heated debate; Lapid blasts ‘obscene, corrupt law’

By TOI STAFF and CARRIE KELLER-LYNN 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) speaks with Education Minister Yoav Kisch in the Knesset, March 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Knesset passed into law a bill that would protect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from a court order to recuse himself, in an early Thursday morning final vote of 61 Knesset members in favor and 47 against.

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The dizzying repetition of that Big Lie for so many decades causes people who should know better to speak of a “Two-State Solution.” Op-ed.

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN

Of course Minister Bezalel Smotrich is correct. Of course there is no Arab “Palestinian” people and never was an Arab “Palestine.” It all is a fraud. It’s just a fact. Repeat the truth: There never was an Arab political entity of “Palestine” and never a “Palestinian Arab nation.” The dizzying repetition of that Big Lie for so many decades causes people who should know better to speak of a “Two-State Solution.” But that very notion is illogical, absurd, nonsensical.

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By Ted Belman

My daughter Aliza, who is religious and a leftist, rarely if ever speaks to me about what is going on in Israel and the world but this debate brought her out of seclusion. She was a member of Israel’s diplomatic Corps and served for three years under Chaim Halevy who was Israel’s Ambassador to the EU 20 years ago.

She sent me a CNN VIDEO in which Amanpour interviewed Halevy. Much to my surprise, Amanpour did a good job and Halevy shocked me.   He said ” cannot accept Netanyahu continuing to lead the country.”   He also said that Israel will cease to be a democracy.

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Florida governor repeats criticism of Trump in Fox Nation interview as he attempts delicate balancing act

By Martin Pengelly, GUARDIAN   22.3.23

Donald Trump may be in legal trouble over his alleged weakness for vice, but his predicament is increasingly placing Ron DeSantis – his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination – in a political vise.

The Florida governor must join Republican attacks on Alvin Bragg, the Democratic Manhattan district attorney whose indictment of Trump over a hush money payment to a porn star is reportedly imminent, while trying not to lose ground in a primary he has not formally entered.

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America’s self-inflicted trouble in Ukraine aggravates our dangerous trouble at home.

By Douglas Macgregor, AM CONSERVATIVE   Mar 14, 2023

The crisis of American national power has begun. America’s economy is tipping over, and Western financial markets are quietly panicking. Imperiled by rising interest rates, mortgage-backed securities and U.S. Treasuries are losing their value. The market’s proverbial “vibes”—feelings, emotions, beliefs, and psychological penchants—suggest a dark turn is underway inside the American economy.

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By Malcolm Dash

Israel is fighting for its independence from the tyranny of affluent and powerful elites. Independence from the legal establishment’s absolutism, independence from the propaganda of the mainstream media propaganda, freedom from the progressive ideology of academia, and from the social engineering carried out by the IDF.

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By Arlene Kushner 20.3.23

As always, when there is a terror attack, I begin with that. And how deplorable it is, that I must do so again: And that once again, it is an attack on Route 60 in Huwara.

David Stern, 41, and his wife Rachel, 37, of Itamar in Samaria, were attacked on Sunday afternoon not far from where the Yaniv brothers were killed just three weeks ago. Both dual US-Israeli citizens, they were on their way to Jerusalem for a Torah lecture. While reports varied, apparently their children were not in the car with them.

David is a former US marine and a martial arts expert who teaches self-defense, including to First Responders. You see him here with Rachel and their four children.

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By Phyllis Chesler

I can no longer keep silent. I may be sitting in Manhattan, but my heart is in Jerusalem and my heart is very heavy.

I may not be a lawyer or a legal scholar, but I have been an organizer, an activist, a leader who has acted on behalf of civil and human rights—especially women’s rights. But I have never acted in the way that Israeli rioters are now acting: Not stopping, threatening to continue until they’ve brought down an entire country.
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BY MARY LOU MASTERS, DAILY CALLER   March 21, 20233:23 PM ET

Former President Donald Trump unveiled his new plan Tuesday to “dismantle the deep state” by firing “rogue” bureaucrats and career politicians, according to a new policy agenda video.

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by Avi Abelow January 5, 2023 

17,000 Scientists and Physicians warn that the COVID vaccine, which they identify as an experimental gene therapy injection must end.

Global COVID Summit – Declaration IV – Restore Scientific Integrity (full video of the press conference below)
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By Melanie Phillips.  2018

I wrote a couple of weeks ago that those trying to defend Israel in the court of public opinion needed a strategic rethink.

Defending Israel against the calumnies being thrown at it is to concede defeat from the start by engaging upon ground defined by its enemies. Instead, Israel’s defenders need to go onto the front foot. They need to do to its enemies what is done to Israel: to paint them as extreme, unconscionable and a mortal threat to life and liberty. But with one key difference: that whereas Israel’s enemies do this through lies, bigotry and irrationality, its defenders should do it through truth, morality and reason.

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T. Belman. SA and Iran have announced an agreement to exchange diplomatic representation. UAE and Syria are in talks aimed to bring Syria back into the Organization of Islamic States. So much for the Abraham Accords. Its being used as leverage to protect the so called Palestinians. This is happening because the Arabs don’t trust the US to protect them.

Saudi news website Elaph says UAE is upset with Netanyahu’s silence in wake of controversial comments by Smotrich.

Israel National News      Mar 22, 2023, 2:06 AM

The United Arab Emirates is considering reducing the level of its diplomatic representation in Israel, Israel Hayom reported on Tuesday, citing a report which appeared on the Saudi news website Elaph.

According to the report, the United Arab Emirates is mulling whether to instruct its ambassador in Israel not to meet any Israeli official, Knesset member or minister at the moment. This would be in addition to not taking part in official events in which Israeli ministers and politicians in the government will be present.

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By Mark Sleboda, REAL POLITICK  21.3.23

Radio Inteview on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour 20/30/23

Listen · 14M

Topics:
1. China’s President Xi Jinping makes state visit to Moscow
2. Poland threatens to enter Ukraine conflict directly in Kiev is losing
3. Putin visited Crimea and Donbass over the weekend

The Real Politick with Mark Sleboda

https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/the-wests-proxy-war-on-russia-in?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Mark comes on at 15:30 minutes.

by David Mark, ISRAEL UNWIRED March 21, 2023 

A senior official close to Prime Minister Netanyahu has accused the US of funding the protests against the Judicial Reform Package now up for a vote in the Knesset.

“This protest is financed and organized with millions of dollars,” he said.

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By Daniel Greenfield, 20 Mar 10:24 AM

Silicon Valley Bank spent billions on green energy, millions on Black Lives Matter and other leftist causes, until it finally ran out of ‘other people’s money’.

That’s when the Biden administration decided to bail out its depositors.

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T. Belman. A prominent Jewish journalist recently told me “Douglas Macgregor blames Israel for all of America’s problems”. This article says otherwise.

Antisemitism accusations against Dr Douglas MacGregor are deeply upsetting.

By Doron Almog, Gershon Hacohen and Efraim Inbar, JISS 19.8.20

It is upsetting to discover that former US colonel Dr. Douglas MacGregor has been accused of antisemitism. This, to prevent his appointment as US ambassador to Germany. Some American Jewish groups echoed these accusations, but they are misinformed and are being exploited for partisan political purposes. (See “Jewish groups take aim at Trump’s pick for ambassador to Germany,” The Jerusalem Post/JTA, August 8, 2020.)
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