M ben Menachem. Under historically normal banking conditions and regulations, banks operate under a system called “Fractional reserves banking” — which means that a bank must retain a percentage of their depositor’s cash at hand at all times, and can only invest or lend out the remainder.  Historically, for the past several decades, this reserve has been about 9%.  That is, they were allowed to invest or lend 89% of the cash entrusted to them.  On 15 March 2020, the new Biden Admin changed this policy to 0%.  As far as I am aware, this was unprecedented.  It took just the relatively ‘mild’ pressure of rate hikes to cause banks to begin to collapse, as anyone with ANY knowledge and experience predicted.  In other words, the Biden admin caused this, knowingly and with maximum malice aforethought.

A Black Weekend for Israeli High-tech After SVB Collapse:  Sagi Cohen and Corin Degani, Haaretz, Mar 12, 2023

Bank Tank: SVB Debacle Presents Painful Lessons For Israeli High-Tech: Sophie Shulman, C Tech, Mar.12, 2023

Israeli Institutional Investors Exposed to SVB: Roi Weinberger, Globes, Mar. 12, 2023

The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: Causes and (Possible) Consequences:  Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, Mar. 11, 2023

If the democratically elected government of Israel capitulates on judicial reform now, other than agreeing to cosmetic compromises, know that the putsch will not stop with judicial reform. Op-ed.

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN

I have written previously regarding the judicial-reform issues for which there is no room to compromise. That article is foundational to my legal and Judaic thinking on the matter, as I contemplate some of the compromises now floating around. For example:

1. A judiciary must be fair and balanced. The current Israeli Supreme Court is corrupt and imbalanced, and has been since Aharon Barak took off his mask and made it into a tyranny of the Left thirty years ago. Therefore, because politics is cyclical, one approach to getting a more balanced court is the American way: to allow elected governments to select the judges. That way, when Democrats and the Left are elected, their president and senate select and confirm their judges, and then the Republicans and the Right get their chance to balance it all when they win. It keeps bouncing back and forth in cycles.

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 By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS

Another couple of weeks, another bout of madness from Joe Biden and his team. Of recent Biden delusions, consider:

Biden went off in one of his impromptu Corn Pop, or “beat-up-Trump-behind-the-bleachers” fables. These often slurred and nearly unintelligible tales characteristically virtue signal Biden’s own victimhood and “courage.”

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By Pamela Geller – on March 12, 2023

Support the farmers. America seems to have lost its appetite and love of freedom. And the American media have censored and ignored this massive freedom movement.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Prague to protest inflation and the government’s support for Ukraine.

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Must-see TV: 

By Thomas Lifson, AM THINKER

My hat is off to Mark Levin for his opening statement in Sunday’s edition of Life, Liberty and Levin. While Mark’s show is always worth watching, this particular segment is clearly in the must-see category for anyone concerned about the totalitarian turn Democrat party (world’s oldest political party) has taken.

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T. Belman. Any harm Israel may suffer will be due to the hysteria the Left has orchestrated and not the actual legislation. What is being proposed by this government is to change the Court from a liberal one to a conservative one, which is what Pres Trump did in the US by appointing 3 Conservative judges. i.e., the law remained the same. Only the deciders were changed. Also, the override law as proposed brings Israel closer to the British parliamentary system in which Parliament is supreme.

The proposed Judicial Reform will make Israel more democratic, not less.

Among signatories to letter are former US Treasury undersecretary Jeffrey Goldstein; missive says planned legislation will also make Israel harder to defend on international stage

By TOI STAFF  

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting on the state budget, at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on March 12, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem)

Over 250 US-based financial investors warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his government’s planned judicial overhaul could chill new infusions of cash into Israel, the latest signal of potentially devastating economic fallout should the controversial legislation go through.

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In response, the attorney-general said that it was not possible to examine his request for self-representation against all petitions filed against him or his office.

By ELIAV BREUER, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

LEFT: Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara RIGHT: National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

Israel’s Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara responded on Monday morning to National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir‘s call to be able to represent himself during court proceedings, after he said on Sunday that he could not trust Baharav-Miara to represent him fairly.

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T. Belman. Ury is an ex-pat Canadian who made aliya before I did. He is very smart, knowledgeable and passionate.  He has studied Israel’s role in promoting the pandemic and vaccines and came to his conclusions after much consideration.

By Ury Weiss

Scott, these wild riots organized by these traitors are getting in high gear. There were already street shootings in Tel Aviv similar to the old wild west. Now we have confirmation that these riots are being sponsored by the Marxist Biden regime in the USA.

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The Israeli president’s attempt to broker a compromise by appeasing the “resistance” is a waste of time. The protest movement aims for a complete halt to the legislative process and fall of the Jewish state’s democratically elected government.

By Ruthie Blum, INN     12.3.23

(JNS) Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s latest plea for judicial-reform compromise was more than merely impassioned. Indeed, his speech to the nation on Thursday evening was downright angry, and with good reason.

As he pointed out in his concise address—delivered with a cracking voice and grim facial expression—he spent the previous 10 weeks “working around the clock, meeting with everybody, including with those who don’t agree with [him], even those who refuse to admit it.” He also mentioned the “harsh and hurtful” criticism he’s received for his efforts, though he claimed to take it “with love.”

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T. Belman. Weinberg is so right.

Compared to the ongoing Palestinian terrorist mega-pogrom against Israeli Jews, the Hawara rampage must rank as one the weakest pogroms in the ugly history of pogroms. So where is the anguish over Israelis continuously being murdered by Palestinian terrorists?

 By  David M. Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM     5.3.23

Everybody in the world, and just about everybody in Israel, appropriately is condemning the vigilante rampage through Hawara this week, in which dozens of cars, businesses, and homes were torched following the Palestinian terrorist murder in that terrible town of two Israeli brothers.

Obviously, I share these sentiments. Not only is such vigilante action immoral, but it mars Israel’s reputation around the world. And it risks further escalation of terrorism.

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By Richard McDonough, AM THINKER

Because of lies … in legacy media — lies which I and millions of others believed — half of our nation’s electorate was smeared and delegitimized, and I myself was misled. It damages our nation when legacy media put words in the mouths of … former Presidents, and call them traitors or criminals without evidence.  … The Democrats in leadership … have cherry-picked, hyped, spun, and … appear to have lied about aspects of January 6, turning a tragedy for the nation into a politicized talking point aimed at discrediting half of our electorate.

–Liberal journalist, feminist, and Gore and Clinton campaign advisor Naomi Wolf after watching videos of the Capitol riot released by Tucker Carlson, March 10, 2023
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich arrive at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on February 23, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

WASHINGTON — Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich landed in Washington on Sunday morning, where he was to speak later in the day at the Israel Bonds conference, an appearance clouded by the controversy caused by his remarks earlier this month calling for a Palestinian town to be “wiped out.”

Hundreds of American Jews are expected to protest outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel where Smotrich will be the keynote speaker at the evening gala of Israel Bonds, which sells Israeli government bonds to investors abroad.

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By Mordechai Ben-Menachem

The US Military has significant recruitment ‘issues’.  In addition, Ukraine support has depleted US Military ammunition to unprecedented extents, while Administration policies have in parallel, depleted US Oil Reserves.

Signs point to an epic economic ‘event’ in coming months:
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L. Goudsmit. This is the most damning evidence, documenting with absolute certainty, that Jan 6 was pure political theater. It was a false flag, designed and exploited by corrupt Democrats lead by Nancy Pelosi, to halt the challenge to the 2020 election, and promote the narrative that Trump lead an insurrection against the United States of America. The scheme was covered up by the collaborating FBI and corrupt mainstream media, that colluded to keep critical information from the American public. The entire operation was an attempted coup, and very individual starting with queen of corruption Nancy Pelosi, is an enemy of the state that belongs in prison!

CANADA FREE PRESS

Here is the January 6 video BANNED by Fox News. Because of Rupert Murdoch caving in to the liberals, Tucker Carlson was NOT allowed to show you the video. However, that video has been leaked and Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Radio Show, was the FIRST in the media to reveal it. This video is quite shocking not only because it is further exculpatory of the Shaman, Jacob Chansley, but also because it REVEALS that the person who was identified by the media as the face of the “insurrection” clearly understood that President Donald Trump wanted protestors at the Capitol to go home in peace. This completely upends the media and Democrat narrative that President Trump was inspiring violence on January 6.

The agreement negotiated in Beijing to restore relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran signaled at least a temporary reordering of the usual alliances and rivalries, with Washington left on the sidelines.

By By Peter Baker, NYT   March 11, 2023

A photograph released by Chinese state media showing officials Wang Yi, center, China’s top foreign policy official, with Ali Shamkhani, right, the secretary of Iran’s security council, and Musaad bin Mohammed Al Aiban, Saudi Arabia’s minister of state, in Beijing, on Friday.Credit…China Daily, via Reuters

WASHINGTON — Finally, there is a peace deal of sorts in the Middle East. Not between Israel and the Arabs, but between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which have been at each other’s throats for decades. And brokered not by the United States but by China.

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Israel’s dream of forming an Arab alliance against Iran was shattered on Friday with the news that China had brokered the restoration of diplomatic ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ

Israel’s dream of forming an Arab alliance against Iran was shattered on Friday with the news that Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to restore diplomatic ties within two months. The dramatic announcement is likely to redraw the regional map of friends and foes, and will have global reverberations. The agreement provides Iran with much-needed legitimacy in the Arab world, and could lead to further deals with Arab states like Egypt, pave the way to end the war in Yemen, offer a workable solution to the crisis in Lebanon, and even lead to a resumption of negotiations to save the nuclear deal.

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The problem isn’t Tucker’s show; it’s how GOP elites submit to radicals.

by AMANDA CARPENTER, THE BULWARK   8.3.23

(Composite by Hannah Yoest / Photos: GettyImages)

Republican members of Congress upset with Tucker Carlson’s rewrite of January 6th as a peaceful protest should redirect their ire. It’s their colleague, GOP Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, who is giving that lie new life.

The only reason Carlson is airing these specials is because McCarthy provided him the content to produce them.

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By John Dale Dunn, AM THINKER    11.3.23

I watched what I thought was a serious journalist blow the first night of the supposed big J6 tape release. But I couldn’t help noticing that  he picked stuff we already knew — and he was WEAK.

Where was the video of fed provocateurs and violence coordinators?

Capitol Police flash bang and rubber bullet/baton attacks on an unarmed citizen crowd?
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