Judicial overreach has undermined the live-and-let-live agreements that underpin Israeli society. 

By Daniella Ashkenazy, INN Aug 11, 2023,

Most criticism of the proposed Israeli judicial reforms has focused on the Israeli Supreme Court’s overreach regarding judicial review of the decision-making of the executive and the legislature. Little has been said about the negative impact of the Court’s HaKol Shafit—everything is judicable—doctrine in other domains.

This doctrine was first applied in the 1990s by then-Chief Justice Aharon Barak. As a result of it, the Court rules annually on some 2,100 petitions regarding every aspect of life in Israel. In fact, the Court often rules on issues best governed by social dynamics—the province of psychology, sociology and political science—not the law. For example, in many aspects of religion in the public sphere.

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By Uri Weiss

David, I am certain that had there been a referendum on the issue, the vast majority of Israelis would vote in favor of the reforms. In my mind, a military coup d’etat is taking place now in Israel, when the head of the air force says that readiness has been compromised because reserve pilots refuse to fly. Many are talking about the country falling apart and splitting physically. If it happens, let them take the air force with them, providing they spray these poisonous chemtrails only over their people.

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the corporate media and entire deep-state biomedical security complex

After bashing it for three years and watching millions die, FDA now admits doctors had every right to prescribe ivermectin as a legitimate treatment for Covid-19

LEO HOHMANN

Just how corrupt is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the entire biomedical security state apparatus that peddled fear of Covid and said the only hope of defeating the virus was to wait for a new technologically advanced “vaccine” — the same “vaccine” that proved unsafe and ineffective?

We are talking about a corruption that is beyond the capacity of many Americans to comprehend.

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We need an American Leo Amery to stand up

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS

Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler loomed.

A lonely Winston Churchill had only a few courageous partners to oppose the appeasement and incompetence of his conservative colleague Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

One of the most stalwart truth-tellers was a now little remembered politico and public servant Leo Amery, a polymath and conservative member of Parliament.

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Redacted with Clayton Morris

37:49 Ukraine Counter Offensive
59:11 FBI Targeting Catholics

Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, praised the Biden administration’s handling of negotiations with Iran over five U.S. prisoners.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers an address on Oct. 19, 2022. Source: Channel 1 (Iran) via MEMRI.

(August 11, 2023 / JNS)

Washington reached a deal with Tehran on Thursday to release five Iranian Americans, whom the Islamic Republic detained evidently on trumped-up charges. In exchange for the five being released to house arrest, the United States freed up $6 billion worth of Iranian oil and released Iranian prisoners.

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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  August 12, 2023

Members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group parade with their weapons in the Lebanese village of Aaramta, 21 km from the border with Israel, on May 21, 2023. (Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images)

• “For the last year and a half, Iran stated clearly that its main strategy is to make the Samaria region [of Israel] another Gaza.” The Iranians… are “pouring money and smuggling weapons into the region. They are supporting Hamas and the PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad] and other factions within the Palestinian Authority.” — Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi, former deputy commander of the IDF’s Gaza Division, Fox News, July 24, 2023.
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Ep. 15 Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund reveals what really happened on January 6th. Our Fox News interview with him never aired, so we invited him back. pic.twitter.com/opDlu4QGlp

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 10, 2023

Unprecedented?? The Generals alarm
This morning in Yedioth Ahronot, 169 former chiefs of staff, heads of Mossad, Shabak, police, and generals published an announcement. They caution against an immediate threat to the security of the State of #Israel if the government ignores the… pic.twitter.com/jRG86OPdKs

— Lt. Col. (R) Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) August 11, 2023

T. Belman. Maybe. those who believe the west was not involved in the Maidan Coup, will believe the Guardian in 2014 article.

The attempt to lever Kiev into the western camp by ousting an elected leader made conflict certain. It could be a threat to us all

By Seumas Milne, GUARDIAN April 30, 2014

The threat of war in Ukraine is growing. As the unelected government in Kiev declares itself unable to control the rebellion in the country’s east, John Kerry brands Russia a rogue state. The US and the European Union step up sanctions against the Kremlin, accusing it of destabilising Ukraine. The White House is reported to be set on a new cold war policy with the aim of turning Russia into a “pariah state”.

A response to Nathaniel Berman

By Eugene Kontorovich, TABLET, 10.8.23

An Israeli settler operates an excavator outside a portable building under construction at the former settler outpost of Homesh in the West Bank on May 29, 2023

Appeals to scientific or expert consensus have in recent years played a significant part of the debate on contentious issues. For laymen, even the nature of the alleged consensus may be difficult to evaluate. Is it a consensus arrived at by experts of varied prior beliefs critically and independently approaching an issue without regard for the public policy implications of their conclusions, or is it one that reflects the self-replicating and conformity-inducing tendencies of academia?

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We all agree on the necessity of judicial review of the legislative and executive branches, but what creates a counterbalance to the court?

By Dror Eydar, ISRAEL HAYOM 11.8.23

Baron Munchausen pulls himself out of a mire by his own hair, Oskar Herrfurth | Photo: Public domain

1. Dear senators and members of Congress,

Last week you received an open letter sent by former Israeli diplomats presenting their view of the controversy currently raging in Israel over reform of the judicial system. As far as they are concerned, Israel’s democracy is in danger. This letter is part of a broader phenomenon in which serious people compete among themselves over who will prophesize the greatest catastrophe for the State of Israel due to what they call the “judicial coup.”

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by Uzay Bulut, GATESTONE  •  August 11, 2023

A Rapid Action Force member patrols along a street of burnt shops and homes in Nuh, in India’s Haryana state, on August 2, 2023, following the attack by Islamists. (Photo by Jalees Andrabi/AFP via Getty Images)

• “Since 1947… Pakistan has initiated three full-fledged wars with India…. In addition, Pakistan has consistently utilized cross-border terrorism in India as an official instrument of state policy, including the 26/11 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people…. Pakistan’s military and ISI spy agency also continues to support the Taliban, the Haqqani group, Lashkar-eTaiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, and other affiliated militant groups in Afghanistan to undermine U.S. military operations and maintain its strategic influence there.” — Hindu American Foundation, August 2019.
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By refusing to serve in the military, is the Israeli left holding the country hostage? Have we seen this before? “Top Story” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Iddo Netanyahu, Ep. 105

American Jewish efforts to intervene in Israeli politics in order to halt efforts towards judicial reform are both wrongheaded and dangerous. According to JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin, Jewish groups that are taking sides in an Israeli domestic dispute are helping to fuel civil unrest there and moving towards a tragic schism within the broader Jewish world.

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As Haredi factions return to power, can the inward-looking politics of yesteryear rise to the challenge of a community grown too big to live at someone else’s expense?

By HAVIV RETTIG GUR 4 January 2023,

Ultra-Orthodox Jews watch as their rabbi votes in Bnei Brak, Nov. 1, 2022 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

All of a sudden, everyone is talking about Haredim.

The formation of the new government and the dramatic concessions offered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Haredi parties in his coalition has brought the question of the Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, economy to the forefront of public debate.

Front-page feature articles in Israeli media over the past two weeks have laid bare troubling economic indicators. Put simply, the Haredi community, which makes up just 12% of Israel’s population, is an epicenter of poverty.

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The term “useful idiots” describes those who should know better than to support causes that threaten them but do so anyway.

By Matthew M. Hausman, J.D., INN 10.8.23

The adage “Hanlon’s Razor” states that one should “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity” and aims to eliminate improbable explanations for human behavior. The term “useful idiots” describes those who should know better than to support causes that threaten their natural interests but do so anyway (the phrase was famously applied to western progressives who shilled for the Soviet Union despite its totalitarian contempt for western freedoms). Hanlon’s Razor never assumes ill-intent, while useful idiocy suggests a degree of willfulness; but both presuppose the inevitability of bad acts. Thus, negative conduct is the one constant, whether motivated by animus or ignorance.
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Timing: Trump just got the legal power to subpoena J6 Committee evidence

BY ZACH HEILMAN, RED VOICE MEDIA 10.8.23

Recent reports suggest a concerning development surrounding the January 6 committee. Jesse Watters of Fox News has claimed that the committee tasked with investigating the events of January 6, may have destroyed nearly half of its evidence.

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