Levin and NetanyahuYonatan Sindel/Flash90
The Likud faction on Monday evening voted to approve the coalition’s changes to the Judicial Selection Committee which selects the justices of the Supreme Court. Four MKs voted against the measure, Danny Danon, David Amsalem, Moshe Saada, and Moshe Passal.
Yariv LevinHaim Twito
Justice Minister Yariv Levin said on Monday evening that if the Supreme Court strikes down the laws related to the judicial reform, “that would be crossing every red line and we will not accept it.”
Levin added, “There is no justification for a disqualification by the Supreme Court, the change we made is intended to prevent any claim of a constitutional crisis.” He also said that the other sections of the reform will be promoted when the Knesset returns from its recess.
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Whistleblower Deborah Conrad tells her story in Jackson, Miss., on Feb. 27, 2023. (Courtesy of Charlotte Stringer Photography)
For her efforts to report injuries to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) and to educate others in her hospital system on doing the same, Physician Assistant Deborah Conrad said she was labeled an anti-vaxxer and fired from her job.
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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS March 20, 2023
There was a meeting Sunday night of the coalition parties’ heads with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and when it was over, MK Simcha Rothman’s and Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s two initial judicial reform bills had been gutted. At least for the current winter session.
The entire legislation banning the Supreme Court from annulling constitutional Basic Laws, which passed the first plenum vote, has been shelved. It will not be submitted.
I recently came home from a visit to Hipster Brooklyn.
I had found that Brooklyn — alongside literary Manhattan — was oddly frozen in an amber of denial and silence.
By Daniel DePetris March 20, 2023
There was a time, only a few short years ago, when Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman thought Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was worse than Adolf Hitler. “I believe that the Iranian supreme leader makes Hitler look good,” Prince Mohammed told The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in a 2018 interview. Hitler may have tried to conquer Europe, he said, but Iran is “trying to conquer the world.”
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The United States and Israel are conducting the Red Flag-Nellis 23-2 combined aerial military exercise in Nevada, which runs March 12-24. The training comes as the top U.S. military officer in the Middle East, Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, testified on Thursday to the Senate Armed Services Committee that “Tehran can now produce sufficient fissile material for a nuclear weapon in less than 14 days.” The military exercise at Nellis Air Force Base features American and Israeli F-35s and air refueling tankers — just the kind of aircraft that would play an essential role in airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani looks on as Iraq’s National Security Adviser Qasim al-Araji and Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary Ali Shamkhani sign the security agreement that includes coordination in protecting the common borders between the two countries, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 19, 2023. Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office/Handout via REUTERS
Iraq and Iran signed a border security agreement on Sunday, a move Iraqi officials said aimed primarily at tightening the frontier with Iraq’s Kurdish region, where Tehran says armed Kurdish dissidents pose a threat to its security.<
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The joint security agreement includes coordination in “protecting the common borders between the two countries and consolidating cooperation in several security fields”, a statement from the Iraqi prime minister’s office said.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary Ali Shamkhani signed the deal with Iraq’s National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji, in the presence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani, the prime minister office said.
“Under the signed security deal, Iraq pledges it would not allow armed groups to use its territory in the Iraqi Kurdish region to launch any border-crossing attacks on neighbour Iran,” said an Iraqi security official who attended the signing.
The frontier came into renewed focus last year when Iran’s Revolutionary Guards launched missile and drone attacks against Iranian Kurdish groups based in northern Iraq, accusing them of fomenting protests that were sparked by the death of a Iranian Kurdish woman while she was being held in police custody.
More than two-thirds of Palestinian Arabs support terrorist groups like the Lions’ Den organization, a new poll found, and deadly terror attacks against Israeli Jews, including last month’s shooting attack that left two brothers dead in the Samaria town of Huwara.
The poll was conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research from March 8th through the 11th, surveying 1,200 Arabs in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip, with a margin of error of +/- 3%.
By Hezki Baruch, INN
Following reports that the government plans to moderate its judicial reform package as it pertains to the Judicial Appointments Committee, MK Simcha Rothman, chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, has announced that, “There’ll be news today.”
The Constitution Committee is meeting on Monday morning to continue its debates on the reform package, and the government has made it clear that it intends to advance the section related to the Judicial Appointments Committee within the next few days, before the Knesset breaks up for the Passover recess.
Researchers are raising the alarm after a bombshell new study revealed that American teens and young children are dying at the highest levels seen in decades.
The study’s findings were published this week in the world-renowned Journal of the American Medical Association.
The administration backs the Israeli left’s campaign to thwart the will of Israeli voters.
(JNS) The Movement for Quality Government (MQG) in Israel is the far-left organization at the epicenter of the Israeli left’s war against the Netanyahu government. MQG began its current campaign of delegitimization, subversion and demonization immediately after the Netanyahu government was sworn into office on Dec. 29. The next day, MQG petitioned the Supreme Court to prevent Shas leader Aryeh Deri from serving as a minister in the government.
By Ted Belman Mar 7, 2022
“If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.” Shylock.
If you provoke the bear and it gets angry, who should you blame? Yourself or the bear?
I recently commented;
“I chose to put the spotlight on the US rather than on Russia to counter the spin put on the Ukraine conflict by the west. In doing so we all got educated more fully on the facts and realities. That’s a good thing.
By Alexander G. Markovsky, NEWSMAX 22 February 2022 12:23 PM
Atlantic Magazine recently wrote about Vladamir Putin, “He is threatening to invade Ukraine because he wants democracy to fail.” This opinion has been shared by a remarkable array of experts.
The idea that Putin is afraid of Ukrainian democracy is absurd. Regretfully, Ukraine has been a tragic setback for America’s democratic aspirations in the region.
T. Belman. How can TOI write this report without mentioning that Russia has agreed to sell advanced SU-35 fighter jets to Iran. The jets are a far bigger threat to Israel that the defensive stuff Israel is selling to Ukraine.
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People inspect damage in the aftermath of an alleged Israeli air strike that hit the medieval Citadel of Damascus on February 19, 2023 (Louai Beshara/AFP)
At Russia’s request, the UN Security Council discussed strikes in Syria attributed to Israel, a sign of a hardening in rhetoric from Moscow toward Jerusalem, Channel 13 news reported Friday.
The Security Council discussion came after a report Israel has authorized the sale of defensive military equipment to Kyiv for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
By Melanie Phillips
Last Moments of the Girondins; Karl von Piloty, 1880
In a column this week for The Times (£) of London, Will Lloyd, a journalist at the left-wing New Statesman magazine, bemoans the miserabilism of the left. As he points out, the association of the left with anxiety, joylessness and neuroticism has been documented by many studies.
While the Biden administration has been busy encouraging and funding the Israeli protest movement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms, it has also launched a far more potentially dangerous and lethal attempt to destabilize the leading military power in the Middle East. The wave of domestic protests in Israel comes on the heels of the most deadly series of Palestinian terror attacks since the end of the Second Intifada. Incredibly, the U.S. is now proposing to take advantage of its ally’s political weakness by standing up a potential 5,000-man Palestinian terror army that would ostensibly fight terrorism in the West Bank in place of the IDF.
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JPOST 19.3.23
Hussein Yazdanpana, vice-president of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, speaking at the frontline with ISIS northeast of Kirkuk (photo credit: SETH J. FRANTZMAN)
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) published a report on Thursday about the Kurdish General Hussein Yazdanpana, leader of the Kurdistan Freedom Party ( PAK), who called for the toppling of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Simcha RothmanYonatan Sindel/Flash 90
The chairman of the Knesset Constitution Committee, MK Simcha Rothman, is expected to present a watered-down version of the first part of the judicial reform, which concerns the composition of the Judicial Selection Committee and the prevention of judicial review of basic laws, Kan 11 News reported on Saturday night.
